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| author | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 17:04:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 17:04:31 +0000 |
| commit | bbb55c6af6f691f2f4064ca472a40f8486ac8ca3 (patch) | |
| tree | d664453171c9c195d4550644794b495d70d97753 /doc | |
| parent | 989539655e3bb8e6934b5f69ece67c173a26c4f2 (diff) | |
Document "apt-ftparchive release"
Author: mdz
Date: 2003-12-26 20:45:00 GMT
Document "apt-ftparchive release"
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-ftparchive.1.sgml | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.sgml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.sgml index 84c26d3c7..220c4a96c 100644 --- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.sgml +++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.sgml @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ <arg>packages<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg><arg><replaceable>override</replaceable><arg><replaceable>pathprefix</replaceable></arg></arg></arg> <arg>sources<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg><arg><replaceable>override</replaceable><arg><replaceable>pathprefix</replaceable></arg></arg></arg> <arg>contents <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg></arg> + <arg>release <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg></arg> <arg>generate <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>config-file</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>section</replaceable></arg></arg> <arg>clean <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>config-file</replaceable></arg></arg> </group> @@ -99,6 +100,25 @@ The option <option/--db/ can be used to specify a binary caching DB. </VarListEntry> + <VarListEntry><term>release</term> + <ListItem><Para> + The <literal/release/ command generates a Release file from a + directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for + Packages, Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources, Sources.gz, + Sources.bz2, Release and md5sum.txt files. It then writes to + stdout a Release file containing an MD5 digest and SHA1 digest + for each file. + <para> + Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are + taken from the corresponding variables under + <literal/APT::FTPArchive::Release/, + e.g. <literal/APT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin/. The supported fields + are: <literal/Origin/, <literal/Label/, <literal/Suite/, + <literal/Version/, <literal/Codename/, <literal/Date/, + <literal/Architectures/, <literal/Components/, <literal/Description/. + + </VarListEntry> + <VarListEntry><term>generate</term> <ListItem><Para> The <literal/generate/ command is designed to be runnable from a cron script and |