Provided by: extrepo_0.6_all 
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