Ubuntu Manpage: dupload - Debian package upload tool

NAME

       dupload - Debian package upload tool

SYNOPSIS

       dupload [options...] [changes-file|directory...]

DESCRIPTION

dupload is a tool that enables people maintaining Debian packages to easily upload them to
a Debian repository.

dupload checks each non-option argument to find readable files or directories. It parses
the files as .changes files, or tries to find such files in the given directories.

dupload will warn if the name of the file does not end with .changes. Further processing
is done changing into the directories of the changes files.

dupload tests the available checksums and size for each file listed in the .changes file,
and fails if it finds a mismatch. If all this goes well, dupload checks if there is an
.upload file with the basename of the .changes file. If the file to be uploaded is
recorded to have already been uploaded to the specified host, it is skipped.

After the list of files to upload is finished, dupload tries to connect to the server and
upload. Each successfully uploaded file is recorded in the .upload log file.

If all files of a package are processed, the .changes file is mailed to the announcement
address specified in the configuration file. If files with
package.announce, package_UPSTREAMVER.announce, or
package_UPSTREAMVER-DEBIANREV.announce exist, these files get prepended to the
announcement. UPSTREAMVER and DEBIANREV are to be replaced with actual version numbers.
For example, if your package is called foobar, has upstream version 3.14, and Debian
revision 2:

• If you only want the announcement to be made with only ONE upload, you name it
foobar_3.14-2.announce.

• If you want it to be made with every upload of a particular upstream version, name it
foobar_3.14.announce.

• If you want it made with every upload of a given package, name it foobar.announce.

FTP login and password
If no login (username) is defined in the configuration file, anonymous is used. The
password is derived from your login name and your hostname, which is common for anonymous
FTP logins. For anonymous logins only, you can provide the "password" in the
configuration file.

For logins other than anonymous, you are asked for the password. For security reasons
there is no way to supply it via the commandline or the environment.

ftp / scp / rsync / copy
The default transfer method is ftp. Alternative methods are scp/SSH and rsync/SSH. For
scp and rsync, the default login is delegated to SSH and its own configuration.

The scp/SSH method only works properly if no password is required (see ssh(1)). When you
use scp, it is recommended to set the "method" keyword to scpb, which will transfer all
files in a batch.

The copy method works by simply copying the files to another directory in the local
filesystem.

If you are using an upload queue, use ftp because it is fast. If you are using an
authenticated host, always use scp or rsync via SSH, because ftp transmits the password in
clear text.

OPTIONS

-d, --debug [level]
Enable more verbose output from the FTP module.

-f, --force Upload regardless of the transfers logged as already completed.

-k, --keep Keep going, skipping packages whose checksums does not match.

-c, --configfile filename
Read the file filename as a configuration file, in addition to the global
configuration file.

--no Dry run, no files are changed, no upload is attempted, only tell what we would
do.

--nomail Suppress announcement for this run. You can send it later by just calling
dupload again w/o this option. Note that this option is by default implied for
all hosts with the dinstall_runs option set to 1.

--mailonly Acts as if --no has been specified, but sends the announcements,
unconditionally.

--noarchive Adds an X-No-Archive: yes header so that the announcement will not be
archived. You can use the per-host archive option in the configuration file.

-p, --print Print the "database" as read from the config files and exit. If a host is
specified via option --to, only this host's entry is displayed.

-q, --quiet Be quiet, i.e., suppress normal output and progress bars.

-t, --to nickname
Upload to nickname'd host. nickname is the key for doing lookups in the
config file. You can use the default_host configuration option to specify a
host without --to.

--help Prints the program usage message and exits.

-V, --Version
Prints version and exits.

FILES

   Configuration
       The configuration files are searched as follows (and read in this order, overriding each
       other):

               /etc/dupload.conf
               ~/.dupload.conf

   Other
       Various Debian package files are used by dupload: .dsc, .changes, .deb, .orig.tar.*,
       .debian.tar.*, .diff.*

       dupload itself writes the log file package_version-debian.upload, and the additional
       announcement files package.announce, package_upstreamver.announce, or
       package_upstreamver-debianrev.announce.

   Announcement addresses
       By default, the announcement addresses are unset because dinstall sends mails instead.

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