NAME

       lintian-lab-tool - perform common operations on/involving laboratories

SYNOPSIS

       lintian-lab-tool <cmd> <lab> [...]

       lintian-lab-tool help

DESCRIPTION

       The lintian-lab-tool ...

OPERATIONS

       create-lab laboratory-dir
           Creates a new permanent Lintian laboratory in the directory denoted by laboratory-dir.

       help [cmd]
           Display the synopsis of this tool or one of its operations.

       remove-lab laboratory-dir
           Removes a permanent Lintian laboratory in the directory denoted by laboratory-dir.

       remove-pkgs laboratory-dir query [... query]
           Removes  all  packages  matching  the  given queries from the permanent Lintian laboratory denoted by
           laboratory-dir.

       scrub-lab laboratory-dir
           Attempt to fix common metadata issues in an existing laboratory.

           This command can correct  some  corruptions  caused  by  programs  that  failed  to  synchronize  the
           laboratory  metadata  with  the actual contents.  Almost all corrections involve discarding corrupted
           entries.

           These issues usually occur because:

           •   Two processes update the laboratory concurrently.

           •   A process updated the  laboratory  but  was  killed  /  crashed  before  it  properly  close  the
               laboratory.

           Note  that  Lintian  tools  will  fix  these issues automatically as the tools happen to run into the
           issues.

CAVEAT

       Laboratories are not designed to have multiple processes working on them concurrently.

SEE ALSO

       lintian(1)

AUTHORS

       Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

       Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>

       Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>

Lintian v2.5.81ubuntu1                             2018-04-08                                LINTIAN-LAB-TOOL(1)