NAME

       extrepo - manage external Debian repositories

SYNOPSIS

       extrepo search search_key

       extrepo enable repository_name

       extrepo disable repository_name

       extrepo update repository_name

DESCRIPTION

       The extrepo tool is used to manage external repositories in Debian.  Before extrepo, users who wished to
       use software not packaged for Debian had to manually write the apt configuration files, run an unsigned
       script as root, or install an unsigned .deb package that contained all the configuration on their system.
       None of these methods were very secure.

       Extrepo remedies this by way of a metadata repository for external package repositories. The user can
       search the list of metadata repositories by way of "extrepo search", and manage them through "extrepo
       enable", "extrepo disable", or "extrepo update".

SUBCOMMANDS

   search key
       Searches for a repository where the given argument key (a regular expression) matches either the name of
       the repository, its description, or the URL of the repository in question. The full YAML configuration of
       all repositories that have a match are printed to standard output.

   enable repository_name
       Enable the repository named repository_name.

       There are two cases for this command:

       •   If  the  repository  had not yet been created before, this creates its configuration from the current
           metadata.

       •   If the repository had been created before but disabled by way of the "extrepo disable"  command,  re-
           enables it without updating the metadata. If you want to update it, see the "extrepo update" command.

   disable repository_name
       This  simply  adds  a  line  "Enabled:  no"  to the apt configuration file, so that the repository is not
       enabled. It can be re-enabled by changing the line to "Enabled: yes" (or removing it entirely), or by way
       of the "extrepo enable" command (second case).

   update repository_name
       Re-writes the apt configuration file for this repository, as well as the GPG keyring  for  it,  from  the
       current metadata.

SEE ALSO

       <https://salsa.debian.org/extrepo-team/extrepo-data> for instructions on adding your own repository

AUTHOR

       Wouter Verhelst

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