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NAME
reprepro - produce, manage and sync a local repository of Debian packages
SYNOPSIS
reprepro --help
reprepro [ options ] command [ per-command-arguments ]
DESCRIPTION
reprepro is a tool to manage a repository of Debian packages (.deb, .udeb, .dsc, ...). It
stores files either being injected manually or downloaded from some other repository
(partially) mirrored into a pool/ hierarchy. Managed packages and checksums of files are
stored in a Berkeley DB database file, so no database server is needed. Checking
signatures of mirrored repositories and creating signatures of the generated Package
indices is supported.
Former working title of this program was mirrorer.
GLOBAL OPTIONS
Options can be specified before the command. Each affects a different subset of commands
and is ignored by other commands.
-h --help
Displays a short list of options and commands with description.
-v, -V, --verbose
Be more verbose. Can be applied multiple times. One uppercase -V counts as five
lowercase -v.
--silent
Be less verbose. Can be applied multiple times. One -v and one -s cancel each other
out.
-f, --force
This option is ignored, as it no longer exists.
-b, --basedir basedir
Sets the base-dir all other default directories are relative to. If none is
supplied and the REPREPRO_BASE_DIR environment variable is not set either, the
current directory will be used.
--outdir outdir
Sets the base-dir of the repository to manage, i.e. where the pool/ subdirectory
resides. And in which the dists/ directory is placed by default. If this starts
with '+b/', it is relative to basedir.
The default for this is basedir.
--confdir confdir
Sets the directory where the configuration is searched in.
If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir.
If none is given, +b/conf (i.e. basedir/conf) will be used.
--distdir distdir
Sets the directory to generate index files relatively to. (i.e. things like
Packages.gz, Sources.gz and Release.gpg)
If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if starting with '+o/'
relative to outdir.
If none is given, +o/dists (i.e. outdir/dists) is used.
Note: apt has dists hard-coded in it, so this is mostly only useful for testing or
when your webserver pretends another directory structure than your physical layout.
Warning: Beware when changing this forth and back between two values not ending in
the same directory. Reprepro only looks if files it wants are there. If nothing of
the content changed and there is a file it will not touch it, assuming it is the
one it wrote last time, assuming any different --distdir ended in the same
directory. So either clean a directory before setting --distdir to it or do an
export with the new one first to have a consistent state.
--logdir logdir
The directory where files generated by the Log: directive are stored if they have
no absolute path.
If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if starting with '+o/'
relative to outdir, with '+c/' relative to confdir.
If none is given, +b/logs (i.e. basedir/logs) is used.
--dbdir dbdir
Sets the directory where reprepro keeps its databases.
If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if starting with '+o/'
relative to outdir, with '+c/' relative to confdir.
If none is given, +b/db (i.e. basedir/db) is used.
Note: This is permanent data, no cache. One has almost to regenerate the whole
repository when this is lost.
--listdir listdir
Sets the directory where it downloads indices to when importing from other
repositories. This is temporary data and can be safely deleted when not in an
update run.
If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if starting with '+o/'
relative to outdir, with '+c/' relative to confdir.
If none is given, +b/lists (i.e. basedir/lists) is used.
--morguedir morguedir
Files deleted from the pool are stored into morguedir.
If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if starting with '+o/'
relative to outdir, with '+c/' relative to confdir.
If none is given, deleted files are just deleted.
--methoddir methoddir
Look in methoddir instead of /usr/lib/apt/methods for methods to call when
importing from other repositories.
-C, --component components
Limit the specified command to this components only. This will force added
packages to this components, limit removing packages from this components, only
list packages in this components, and/or otherwise only look at packages in this
components, depending on the command in question.
Multiple components are specified by separating them with |, as in -C
'main|contrib'.
-A, --architecture architectures
Limit the specified command to this architectures only. (i.e. only list such
packages, only remove packages from the specified architectures, or otherwise only
look at/act on this architectures depending on the specific command).
Multiple architectures are specified by separating them with |, as in -A
'sparc|i386'.
Note that architecture all packages can be included to each architecture but are
then handled separately. Thus by using -A in a specific way one can have different
versions of an architecture all package in different architectures of the same
distribution.
-T, --type dsc|deb|udeb
Limit the specified command to this packagetypes only. (i.e. only list such
packages, only remove such packages, only include such packages, ...)
-S, --section section
Overrides the section of inclusions. (Also override possible override files)
-P, --priority priority
Overrides the priority of inclusions. (Also override possible override files)
--export=(silent-never|never|changed|lookedat|force)
This option specify whether and how the high level actions (e.g. install, update,
pull, delete) should export the index files of the distributions they work with.
--export=lookedat
In this mode every distribution the action handled will be exported, unless there
was an error possibly corrupting it.
Note that only missing files and files whose intended content changed between
before and after the action will be written. To get a guaranteed current export,
use the export action.
For backwards compatibility, lookedat is also available under the old name normal.
The name normal is deprecated and will be removed in future versions.
--export=changed
In this mode every distribution actually changed will be exported, unless there was
an error possibly corrupting it. (i.e. if nothing changed, not even missing files
will be created.)
Note that only missing files and files whose intended content changed between
before and after the action will be written. To get a guaranteed current export,
use the export action.
--export=force
Always export all distributions looked at, even if there was some error possibly
bringing it into a inconsistent state.
--export=never
No index files are exported. You will have to call export later.
Note that you most likely additionally need the --keepunreferencedfiles option, if
you do not want some of the files pointed to by the untouched index files to
vanish.
--export=silent-never
Like never, but suppress most output about that.
--ignore=what
Ignore errors of type what. See the section ERROR IGNORING for possible values.
--nolistsdownload
When running update, checkupdate or predelete do not download any Release or index
files. This is hardly useful except when you just run one of those command for the
same distributions. And even then reprepro is usually good in not downloading
except Release and Release.gpg files again.
--nothingiserror
If nothing was done, return with exitcode 1 instead of the usual 0.
Note that "nothing was done" means the primary purpose of the action in question.
Auxiliary actions (opening and closing the database, exporting missing files with
--export=lookedat, ...) usually do not count. Also note that this is not very well
tested. If you find an action that claims to have done something in some cases
where you think it should not, please let me know.
--keeptemporaries
Do not delete temporary .new files when exporting a distribution fails. (reprepro
first create .new files in the dists directory and only if everything is generated,
all files are put into their final place at once. If this option is not specified
and something fails, all are deleted to keep dists clean).
--keepunreferencedfiles
Do not delete files that are no longer used because the package they are from is
deleted/replaced with a newer version from the last distribution it was in.
--keepunusednewfiles
The include, includedsc, includedeb and processincoming by default delete any file
they added to the pool that is not marked used at the end of the operation. While
this keeps the pool clean and allows changing before trying to add again, this
needs copying and checksum calculation every time one tries to add a file.
--keepdirectories
Do not try to rmdir parent directories after files or directories have been removed
from them. (Do this if your directories have special permissions you want keep, do
not want to be pestered with warnings about errors to remove them, or have a buggy
rmdir call deleting non-empty directories.)
--ask-passphrase
Ask for passphrases when signing things and one is needed. This is a quick and
dirty and unsafe implementation using the obsolete getpass(3) function with the
description gpgme is supplying. So the prompt will look quite funny and support
for passphrases with more than 8 characters depend on your libc. Use of this
option is not recommended. Use gpg-agent with pinentry instead.
(With current versions of gnupg you need to set pinentry-mode loopback in your
.gnupg/gpg.conf file to use --ask-passphrase. Without that option gnupg uses the
much safer and recommended pinentry instead).
--noskipold
When updating do not skip targets where no new index files and no files marked as
already processed are available.
If you changed a script to preprocess downloaded index files or changed a
Listfilter, you most likely want to call reprepro with --noskipold.
--waitforlock count
If there is a lockfile indicating another instance of reprepro is currently using
the database, retry count times after waiting for 10 seconds each time. The
default is 0 and means to error out instantly.
--spacecheck full|none
The default is full:
In the update commands, check for every to be downloaded file which filesystem it
is on and how much space is left.
To disable this behaviour, use none.
--dbsafetymargin bytes-count
If checking for free space, reserve byte-count bytes on the filesystem containing
the db/ directory. The default is 104857600 (i.e. 100MB), which is quite large.
But as there is no way to know in advance how large the databases will grow and
libdb is extremely touchy in that regard, lower only when you know what you do.
--safetymargin bytes-count
If checking for free space, reserve byte-count bytes on filesystems not containing
the db/ directory. The default is 1048576 (i.e. 1MB).
--noguessgpgtty
Don't set the environment variable GPG_TTY, even when it is not set, stdin is
terminal and /proc/self/fd/0 is a readable symbolic link.
--gnupghome
Set the GNUPGHOME evnironment variable to the given directory as argument to this
option. And your gpg will most likely use the content of this variable instead of
"~/.gnupg". Take a look at gpg(1) to be sure. This option in the command line is
usually not very useful, as it is possible to set the environment variable
directly. Its main reason for existence is that it can be used in conf/options.
--gunzip gz-uncompressor
While reprepro links against libz, it will look for the program given with this
option (or gunzip if not given) and use that when uncompressing index files while
downloading from remote repositories. (So that downloading and uncompression can
happen at the same time). If the program is not found or is NONE (all-uppercase)
then uncompressing will always be done using the built in uncompression method.
The program has to accept the compressed file as stdin and write the uncompressed
file into stdout.
--bunzip2 bz2-uncompressor
When uncompressing downloaded index files or if not linked against libbz2 reprepro
will use this program to uncompress .bz2 files. The default value is bunzip2. If
the program is not found or is NONE (all-uppercase) then uncompressing will always
be done using the built in uncompression method or not be possible if not linked
against libbz2. The program has to accept the compressed file as stdin and write
the uncompressed file into stdout.
--unlzma lzma-uncompressor
When uncompressing downloaded index files or if not linked against liblzma reprepro
will use this program to uncompress .lzma files. The default value is unlzma. If
the program is not found or is NONE (all-uppercase) then uncompressing lzma files
will always be done using the built in uncompression method or not be possible if
not linked against liblzma. The program has to accept the compressed file as stdin
and write the uncompressed file into stdout.
--unxz xz-uncompressor
When uncompressing downloaded index files or if not linked against liblzma reprepro
will use this program to uncompress .xz files. The default value is unxz. If the
program is not found or is NONE (all-uppercase) then uncompressing xz files will
always be done using the built in uncompression method or not be possible if not
linked against liblzma. The program has to accept the compressed file as stdin and
write the uncompressed file into stdout.
--lunzip lzip-uncompressor
When trying to uncompress or read lzip compressed files, this program will be used.
The default value is lunzip. If the program is not found or is NONE (all-
uppercase) then uncompressing lz files will not be possible. The program has to
accept the compressed file as stdin and write the uncompressed file into stdout.
Note that .lz support is DEPRECATED and will be removed in the future.
--list-max count
Limits the output of list, listmatched and listfilter to the first count results.
The default is 0, which means unlimited.
--list-skip count
Omitts the first count results from the output of list, listmatched and listfilter.
--list-format format
Set the output format of list, listmatched and listfilter commands. The format is
similar to dpkg-query's --showformat: fields are specified as ${fieldname} or
${fieldname;length}. Zero length or no length means unlimited. Positive numbers
mean fill with spaces right, negative fill with spaces left.
\n, \r, \t, \0 are new-line, carriage-return, tabulator and zero-byte. Backslash
(\) can be used to escape every non-letter-or-digit.
The special field names $identifier, $architecture, $component, $type, $codename
denote where the package was found.
The special field names $source and $sourceversion denote the source and source
version a package belongs to. (i.e. ${$source} will either be the same as
${source} (without a possible version in parentheses at the end) or the same as
${package}.
The special field names $basename, $filekey and $fullfilename denote the first
package file part of this entry (i.e. usually the .deb, .udeb or .dsc file) as
basename, as filekey (filename relative to the outdir) and the full filename with
outdir prepended (i.e. as relative or absolute as your outdir (or basedir if you
did not set outdir) is).
When --list-format is not given or NONE, then the default is equivalent to
${$identifier} ${package} ${version}\n.
Escaping digits or letters not in above list, using dollars not escaped outside
specified constructs, or any field names not listed as special and not consisting
entirely out of letters, digits and minus signs have undefined behaviour and might
change meaning without any further notice.
If you give this option on the command line, don't forget that $ is also
interpreted by your shell. So you have to properly escape it. For example by
putting the whole argument to --list-format in single quotes.
--show-percent
When downloading packages, show each completed percent of completed package
downloads together with the size of completely downloaded packages. (Repeating
this option increases the frequency of this output).
--onlysmalldeletes
The pull and update commands will skip every distribution in which one target loses
more than 20% of its packages (and at least 10).
Using this option (or putting it in the options config file) can avoid removing
large quantities of data but means you might often give --noonlysmalldeletes to
override it.
--restrict src[=version|:type]
Restrict a pull or update to only act on packages belonging to source-package src.
Any other package will not be updated (unless it matches a --restrict-bin). Only
packages that would otherwise be updated or are at least marked with hold in a
FilterList or FilerSrcList will be updated.
The action can be restricted to a source version using a equal sign or changed to
another type (see FilterList) using a colon.
This option can be given multiple times to list multiple packages, but each package
may only be named once (even when there are different versions or types).
--restrict-binary name[=version|:type]
Like --restrict but restrict to binary packages (.deb and .udeb). Source packages
are not upgraded unless they appear in a --restrict.
--restrict-file filename
Like --restrict but read a whole file in the FilterSrcList format.
--restrict-file-bin filename
Like --restrict-bin but read a whole file in the FilterList format.
--endhook hookscript
Run the specified hookscript once reprepro exits. It will get the usual REPREPRO_*
environment variables set (or unset) and additionally a variable REPREPRO_EXIT_CODE
that is the exit code with which reprepro would have exited (the hook is always
called once the initial parsing of global options and the command name is done, no
matter if reprepro did anything or not). Reprepro will return to the calling
process with the exitcode of this script. Reprepro has closed all its databases
and removed all its locks, so you can run reprepro again in this script (unless
someone else did so in the same repository before, of course).
The only advantage over running that command always directly after reprepro is that
you can some environment variables set and cannot so easily forget it if this
option is in conf/options.
The script is supposed to be located relative to confdir, unless its name starts
with /, ./, +b/, +o/, or +c/ and the name may not start (except in the cases given
before) with a +.
An example script looks like:
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$REPREPRO_EXIT_CODE" -ne 0 ] ; then
exit "$REPREPRO_EXIT_CODE"
fi
echo "congratulations, reprepro with arguments: $*"
echo "seems to have run successfully. REPREPRO_ part of the environment is:"
set | grep ^REPREPRO_
exit 0
--outhook hookscript
hookscript is called with a .outlog file as argument (located in logdir) containing
a description of all changes made to outdir.
The script is supposed to be located relative to confdir, unless its name starts
with /, ./, +b/, +o/, or +c/ and the name may not start (except in the cases given
before) with a +.
For a format of the .outlog files generated for this script see the manual.html
shipped with reprepro.
COMMANDS
export [ codenames ]
Generate all index files for the specified distributions.
This regenerates all files unconditionally. It is only useful if you want to be
sure dists is up to date, you called some other actions with --export=never before
or you want to create an initial empty but fully equipped dists/codename directory.
[ --delete ] createsymlinks [ codenames ]
Creates suite symbolic links in the dists/-directory pointing to the corresponding
codename.
It will not create links, when multiple of the given codenames would be linked from
the same suite name, or if the link already exists (though when --delete is given
it will delete already existing symlinks)
list codename [ packagename ]
List all packages (source and binary, except when -T or -A is given) with the given
name in all components (except when -C is given) and architectures (except when -A
is given) of the specified distribution. If no package name is given, list
everything. The format of the output can be changed with --list-format. To only
get parts of the result, use --list-max and --list-skip.
listmatched codename glob
as list, but does not list a single package, but all packages matching the given
shell-like glob. (i.e. *, ? and [chars] are allowed).
Examples:
reprepro -b . listmatched test2 'linux-*' lists all packages starting with linux-.
listfilter codename condition
as list, but does not list a single package, but all packages matching the given
condition.
The format of the formulas is those of the dependency lines in Debian packages'
control files with some extras. That means a formula consists of names of fields
with a possible condition for its content in parentheses. These atoms can be
combined with an exclamation mark '!' (meaning not), a pipe symbol '|' (meaning or)
and a comma ',' (meaning and). Additionally parentheses can be used to change
binding (otherwise '!' binds more than '|' than ',').
The values given in the search expression are directly alphabetically compared to
the headers in the respective index file. That means that each part Fieldname (cmp
value) of the formula will be true for exactly those package that have in the
Package or Sources file a line starting with fieldname and a value is
alphabetically cmp to value.
Additionally since reprepro 3.11.0, '%' can be used as comparison operator,
denoting matching a name with shell like wildcard (with '*', '?' and '[..]').
The special field names starting with '$' have special meaning (available since
3.11.1):
$Version
The version of the package, comparison is not alphabetically, but as Debian version
strings.
$Source
The source name of the package.
$SourceVersion
The source version of the package.
$Architecture
The architecture the package is in (listfilter) or to be put into.
$Component
The component the package is in (listfilter) or to be put into.
$Packagetype
The packagetype of the package.
Examples:
reprepro -b . listfilter test2 'Section (== admin)' will list all packages in
distribution test2 with a Section field and the value of that field being admin.
reprepro -b . -T deb listfilter test2 'Source (== blub) | ( !Source , Package (==
blub) )' will find all .deb Packages with either a Source field blub or no Source
field and a Package field blub. (That means all package generated by a source
package blub, except those also specifying a version number with its Source).
reprepro -b . -T deb listfilter test2 '$Source (==blub) is the better way to do
this (but only available since 3.11.1).
reprepro -b . listfilter test2 '$PackageType (==deb), $Source (==blub) is another
(less efficient) way.
reprepro -b . listfilter test2 'Package (% linux-*-2.6*)' lists all packages with
names starting with linux- and later having an -2.6.
ls package-name
List the versions of the specified package in all distributions.
lsbycomponent package-name
Like ls, but group by component (and print component names).
remove codename package-names
Delete all packages in the specified distribution, that have package name listed as
argument. (i.e. remove all packages list with the same arguments and options would
list, except that an empty package list is not allowed.)
Note that like any other operation removing or replacing a package, the old
package's files are unreferenced and thus may be automatically deleted if this was
their last reference and no --keepunreferencedfiles specified.
removematched codename glob
Delete all packages listmatched with the same arguments would list.
removefilter codename condition
Delete all packages listfilter with the same arguments would list.
removesrc codename source-name [version]
Remove all packages in distribution codename belonging to source package source-
name. (Limited to those with source version version if specified).
If package tracking is activated, it will use that information to find the
packages, otherwise it traverses all package indices for the distribution.
removesrcs codename source-name[=version] ...
Like removesrc, but can be given multiple source names and source versions must be
specified by appending '=' and the version to the name (without spaces).
update [ codenames ]
Sync the specified distributions (all if none given) as specified in the config
with their upstreams. See the description of conf/updates below.
checkupdate [ codenames ]
Same like update, but will show what it will change instead of actually changing
it.
dumpupdate [ codenames ]
Same like checkupdate, but less suiteable for humans and more suitable for
computers.
predelete [ codenames ]
This will determine which packages a update would delete or replace and remove
those packages. This can be useful for reducing space needed while upgrading, but
there will be some time where packages are vanished from the lists so clients will
mark them as obsolete. Plus if you cannot download a updated package in the
(hopefully) following update run, you will end up with no package at all instead of
an old one. This will also blow up .diff files if you are using the pdiff example
or something similar. So be careful when using this option or better get some more
space so that update works.
cleanlists
Delete all files in listdir (default basedir/lists) that do not belong to any
update rule for any distribution. I.e. all files are deleted in that directory
that no update command in the current configuration can use. (The files are
usually left there, so if they are needed again they do not need to be downloaded
again. Though in many easy cases not even those files will be needed.)
pull [ codenames ]
pull in newer packages into the specified distributions (all if none given) from
other distributions in the same repository. See the description of conf/pulls
below.
checkpull [ codenames ]
Same like pull, but will show what it will change instead of actually changing it.
dumppull [ codenames ]
Same like checkpull, but less suiteable for humans and more suitable for computers.
includedeb codename .deb-filename
Include the given binary Debian package (.deb) in the specified distribution,
applying override information and guessing all values not given and guessable.
includeudeb codename .udeb-filename
Same like includedeb, but for .udeb files.
includedsc codename .dsc-filename
Include the given Debian source package (.dsc, including other files like
.orig.tar.gz, .tar.gz and/or .diff.gz) in the specified distribution, applying
override information and guessing all values not given and guessable.
Note that .dsc files do not contain section or priority, but the Sources.gz file
needs them. reprepro tries to parse .diff and .tar files for it, but is only able
to resolve easy cases. If reprepro fails to extract those automatically, you have
to either specify a DscOverride or give them via -S and -P
include codename .changes-filename
Include in the specified distribution all packages found and suitable in the
.changes file, applying override information guessing all values not given and
guessable.
processincoming rulesetname [.changes-file]
Scan an incoming directory and process the .changes files found there. If a
filename is supplied, processing is limited to that file. rulesetname identifies
which rule-set in conf/incoming determines which incoming directory to use and in
what distributions to allow packages into. See the section about this file for
more information.
check [ codenames ]
Check if all packages in the specified distributions have all files needed properly
registered.
checkpool [ fast ]
Check if all files believed to be in the pool are actually still there and have the
known md5sum. When fast is specified md5sum is not checked.
collectnewchecksums
Calculate all supported checksums for all files in the pool. (Versions prior to
3.3 did only store md5sums, 3.3 added sha1, 3.5 added sha256).
translatelegacychecksums
Remove the legacy files.db file after making sure all information is also found in
the new checksums.db file. (Alternatively you can call collecnewchecksums and
remove the file on your own.)
rereference
Forget which files are needed and recollect this information.
dumpreferences
Print out which files are marked to be needed by whom.
dumpunreferenced
Print a list of all filed believed to be in the pool, that are not known to be
needed.
deleteunreferenced
Remove all known files (and forget them) in the pool not marked to be needed by
anything.
deleteifunreferenced [ filekeys ]
Remove the given files (and forget them) in the pool if they are not marked to be
used by anything. If no command line arguments are given, stdin is read and every
line treated as one filekey. This is mostly useful together with
--keepunreferenced in conf/options or in situations where one does not want to run
deleteunreferenced, which removes all files eligible to be deleted with this
command.
reoverride [ codenames ]
Reapply the override files to the given distributions (Or only parts thereof given
by -A,-C or -T).
Note: only the control information is changed. Changing a section to a value, that
would cause another component to be guessed, will not cause any warning.
redochecksums [ codenames ]
Readd the information about file checksums to the package indices.
Usually the package's control information is created at inclusion time or imported
from some remote source and not changed later. This command modifies it to readd
missing checksum types.
Only checksums already known are used. To update known checksums about files run
collectnewchecksums first.
dumptracks [ codenames ]
Print out all information about tracked source packages in the given distributions.
retrack [ codenames ]
Recreate a tracking database for the specified distributions. This contains ouf of
three steps. First all files marked as part of a source package are set to unused.
Then all files actually used are marked as thus. Finally tidytracks is called
remove everything no longer needed with the new information about used files.
(This behaviour, though a bit longsome, keeps even files only kept because of
tracking mode keep and files not otherwise used but kept due to includechanges or
its relatives. Before version 3.0.0 such files were lost by running retrack).
removealltracks [ codenames ]
Removes all source package tracking information for the given distributions.
removetrack codename sourcename version
Remove the trackingdata of the given version of a given sourcepackage from a given
distribution. This also removes the references for all used files.
tidytracks [ codenames ]
Check all source package tracking information for the given distributions for files
no longer to keep.
copy destination-codename source-codename packages...
Copy the given packages from one distribution to another. The packages are copied
verbatim, no override files are consulted. Only components and architectures
present in the source distribution are copied.
copysrc destination-codename source-codename source-package [versions]
look at each package (where package means, as usual, every package be it dsc, deb
or udeb) in the distribution specified by source-codename and identifies the
relevant source package for each. All packages matching the specified source-
package name (and any version if specified) are copied to the destination-codename
distribution. The packages are copied verbatim, no override files are consulted.
Only components and architectures present in the source distribution are copied.
copymatched destination-codename source-codename glob
Copy packages matching the given glob (see listmatched).
The packages are copied verbatim, no override files are consulted. Only components
and architectures present in the source distribution are copied.
copyfilter destination-codename source-codename formula
Copy packages matching the given formula (see listfilter). (all versions if no
version is specified). The packages are copied verbatim, no override files are
consulted. Only components and architectures present in the source distribution
are copied.
restore codename snapshot packages...
restoresrc codename snapshot source-epackage [versions]
restorefilter destination-codename snapshot formula
restorematched destination-codename snapshot glob
Like the copy commands, but do not copy from another distribution, but from a
snapshot generated with gensnapshot. Note that this blindly trusts the contents of
the files in your dists/ directory and does no checking.
clearvanished
Remove all package databases that no longer appear in conf/distributions. If
--delete is specified, it will not stop if there are still packages left. Even
without --delete it will unreference files still marked as needed by this target.
(Use --keepunreferenced to not delete them if that was the last reference.)
Do not forget to remove all exported package indices manually.
gensnapshot codename directoryname
Generate a snapshot of the distribution specified by codename in the directory
dists/codename/snapshots/directoryname/ and reference all needed files in the pool
as needed by that. No Content files are generated and no export hooks are run.
Note that there is currently no automated way to remove that snapshot again (not
even clearvanished will unlock the referenced files after the distribution itself
vanished). You will have to remove the directory yourself and tell reprepro to
unreferencesnapshot codename directoryname before deleteunreferenced will delete
the files from the pool locked by this.
To access such a snapshot with apt, add something like the following to your
sources.list file:
deb method://as/without/snapshot codename/snapshots/name main
unreferencesnapshot codename directoryname
Remove all references generated by an genshapshot with the same arguments. This
allows the next deleteunferenced call to delete those files. (The indicies in
dists/ for the snapshot are not removed.)
rerunnotifiers [ codenames ]
Run all external scripts specified in the Log: options of the specified
distributions.
build-needing codename architecture [ glob ]
List source packages (matching glob) that likely need a build on the given
architecture.
List all source package in the given distribution without a binary package of the
given architecture built from that version of the source, without a .changes or
.log file for the given architecture, with an Architecture field including any, os-
any (with os being the part before the hyphen in the architecture or linux if there
is no hyphen) or the architecture and at least one package in the Binary field not
yet available.
If instead of architecture the term any is used, all architectures are iterated and
the architecture is printed as fourth field in every line.
If the architecture is all, then only source packages with an Architecture field
including all are considered (i.e. as above with real architectures but any does
not suffice). Note that dpkg-dev << 1.16.1 does not both set any and all so source
packages building both architecture dependent and independent packages will never
show up unless built with a new enough dpkg-source).
translatefilelists
Translate the file list cache within db/contents.cache.db into the new format used
since reprepro 3.0.0.
Make sure you have at least half of the space of the current db/contents.cache.db
file size available in that partition.
flood distribution [architecture]
For each architecture of distribution (or for the one specified) add architecture
all packages from other architectures (but the same component or packagetype) under
the following conditions:
Packages are only upgraded, never downgraded.
If there is a package not being architecture all, then architecture all packages
of the same source from the same source version are preferred over those that have
no such binary sibling.
Otherwise the package with the highest version wins.
You can restrict with architectures are looked for architecture all packages using
-A and which components/packagetypes are flooded by -C/-T as usual.
There are mostly two use cases for this command: If you added an new architecture
to an distribution and want to copy all architecture all packages to it. Or if you
included some architecture all packages only to some architectures using -A to
avoid breaking the other architectures for which the binary packages were still
missing and now want to copy it to those architectures were they are unlikely to
break something (because a newbinary is already available).
unusedsources [distributions]
List all source packages for which no binary package build from them is found.
sourcemissing [distributions]
List all binary packages for which no source package is found (the source package
must be in the same distribution, but source packages only kept by package tracking
is enough).
reportcruft [distributions]
List all source package versions that either have a source package and no longer a
binary package or binary packages left without source package in the index. (Unless
sourcemissing also list packages where the source package in only in the pool due
to enabled tracking but no longer in the index).
sizes [ codenames ]
List the size of all packages in the distributions specified or in all
distributions.
Each row contains 4 numbers, each being a number of bytes in a set of packages,
which are: The packages in this distribution (including anything only kept because
of tracking), the packages only in this distribution (anything in this distribution
and a snapshot of this distribution counts as only in this distribution), the
packages in this distribution and its snapshots, the packages only in this
distribution or its snapshots.
If more than one distribution is selected, also list a sum of those (in which
'Only' means only in selected ones, and not only only in one of the selected ones).
repairdescriptions [ codenames ]
Look for binary packages only having a short description and try to get the long
description from the .deb file (and also remove a possible Description-md5 in this
case).
internal commands
These are hopefully never needed, but allow manual intervention. WARNING: Is is quite
easy to get into an inconsistent and/or unfixable state.
_detect [ filekeys ]
Look for the files, which filekey is given as argument or as a line of the input
(when run without arguments), and calculate their md5sum and add them to the list
of known files. (Warning: this is a low level operation, no input validation or
normalization is done.)
_forget [ filekeys ]
Like _detect but remove the given filekey from the list of known files. (Warning:
this is a low level operation, no input validation or normalization is done.)
_listmd5sums
Print a list of all known files and their md5sums.
_listchecksums
Print a list of all known files and their recorded checksums.
_addmd5sums
alias for the newer
_addchecksums
Add information of known files (without any check done) in the strict format of
_listchecksums output (i.e. don't dare to use a single space anywhere more than
needed).
_dumpcontents identifier
Printout all the stored information of the specified part of the repository. (Or in
other words, the content the corresponding Packages or Sources file would get)
This command is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
_addreference filekey identifier
Manually mark filekey to be needed by identifier
_addreferences identifier [ filekeys ]
Manually mark one or more filekeys to be needed by identifier. If no command line
arguments are given, stdin is read and every line treated as one filekey.
_removereference identifier filekey
Manually remove the given mark that the file is needed by this identifier.
_removereferences identifier
Remove all references what is needed by identifier.
__extractcontrol .deb-filename
Look what reprepro believes to be the content of the control file of the specified
.deb-file.
__extractfilelist .deb-filename
Look what reprepro believes to be the list of files of the specified .deb-file.
_fakeemptyfilelist filekey
Insert an empty filelist for filekey. This is a evil hack around broken .deb files
that cannot be read by reprepro.
_addpackage codenam filename packages...
Add packages from the specified filename to part specified by -C -A and -T of the
specified distribution. Very strange things can happen if you use it improperly.
__dumpuncompressors
List what compressions format can be uncompressed and how.
__uncompress format compressed-file uncompressed-file
Use builtin or external uncompression to uncompress the specified file of the
specified format into the specified target.
_listcodenames
Print - on per line - the codenames of all configured distributions.
_listconfidentifiers identifier [ distributions... ]
Print - one per line - all identifiers of subdatabases as derived from the
configuration. If a list of distributions is given, only identifiers of those are
printed.
_listdbidentifiers identifier [ distributions... ]
Print - one per line - all identifiers of subdatabases in the current database.
This will be a subset of the ones printed by _listconfidentifiers or most commands
but clearvanished will refuse to run, and depending on the database compatibility
version, will include all those if reprepro was run since the config was last
changed.
CONFIG FILES
reprepo uses three config files, which are searched in the directory specified with
--confdir or in the conf/ subdirectory of the basedir.
If a file options exists, it is parsed line by line. Each line can be the long name of a
command line option (without the --) plus an argument, where possible. Those are handled
as if they were command line options given before (and thus lower priority than) any other
command line option. (and also lower priority than any environment variable).
To allow command line options to override options file options, most boolean options also
have a corresponding form starting with --no.
(The only exception is when the path to look for config files changes, the options file
will only opened once and of course before any options within the options file are
parsed.)
The file distributions is always needed and describes what distributions to manage, while
updates is only needed when syncing with external repositories and pulls is only needed
when syncing with repositories in the same reprepro database.
The last three are in the format control files in Debian are in, i.e. paragraphs separated
by empty lines consisting of fields. Each field consists of a fieldname, followed by a
colon, possible whitespace and the data. A field ends with a newline not followed by a
space or tab.
Lines starting with # as first character are ignored, while in other lines the # character
and everything after it till the newline character are ignored.
A paragraph can also consist of only a single field "!include:" which causes the named
file (relative to confdir unless starting with ~/, +b/, +c/ or / ) to be read as if it was
found at this place.
Each of the three files or a file included as described above can also be a directory, in
which case all files it contains with a filename ending in .conf and not starting with .
are read.
conf/distributions
Codename
This required field is the unique identifier of a distribution and used as
directory name within dists/ It is also copied into the Release files.
Note that this name is not supposed to change. You most likely never ever want a
name like testing or stable here (those are suite names and supposed to point to
another distribution later).
Suite This optional field is simply copied into the Release files. In Debian it contains
names like stable, testing or unstable. To create symlinks from the Suite to the
Codename, use the createsymlinks command of reprepro.
FakeComponentPrefix
If this field is present, its argument is added - separated by a slash - before
every Component written to the main Release file (unless the component already
starts with it), and removed from the end of the Codename and Suite fields in that
file. Also if a component starts with it, its directory in the dists dir is
shortened by this.
So
Codename: bla/updates
Suite: foo/updates
FakeComponentPrefix: updates
Components: main bad
will create a Release file with
Codename: bla
Suite: foo
Components: updates/main updates/bad
in it, but otherwise nothing is changed, while
Codename: bla/updates
Suite: foo/updates
FakeComponentPrefix: updates
Components: updates/main updates/bad
will also create a Release file with
Codename: bla
Suite: foo
Components: updates/main updates/bad
but the packages will actually be in the components updates/main and updates/bad,
most likely causing the same file using duplicate storage space.
This makes the distribution look more like Debian's security archive, thus work
around problems with apt's workarounds for that.
AlsoAcceptFor
A list of distribution names. When a .changes file is told to be included into
this distribution with the include command and the distribution header of that file
is neither the codename, nor the suite name, nor any name from the list, a
wrongdistribution error is generated. The process_incoming command will also use
this field, see the description of Allow and Default from the conf/incoming file
for more information.
Version
This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.
Origin This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.
Label This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.
NotAutomatic
This optional field is simply copied into the Release files. (The value is handled
as an arbitrary string, though anything but yes does not make much sense right
now.)
ButAutomaticUpgrades
This optional field is simply copied into the Release files. (The value is handled
as an arbitrary string, though anything but yes does not make much sense right
now.)
Description
This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.
Architectures
This required field lists the binary architectures within this distribution and if
it contains source (i.e. if there is an item source in this line this Distribution
has source. All other items specify things to be put after "binary-" to form
directory names and be checked against "Architecture:" fields.)
This will also be copied into the Release files. (With exception of the source
item, which will not occur in the topmost Release file whether it is present here
or not)
Components
This required field lists the component of a distribution. See GUESSING for rules
which component packages are included into by default. This will also be copied
into the Release files.
UDebComponents
Components with a debian-installer subhierarchy containing .udebs. (E.g. simply
"main")
Update When this field is present, it describes which update rules are used for this
distribution. There also can be a magic rule minus ("-"), see below.
Pull When this field is present, it describes which pull rules are used for this
distribution. Pull rules are like Update rules, but get their stuff from other
distributions and not from external sources. See the description for conf/pulls.
SignWith
When this field is present, a Release.gpg file will be generated. If the value is
"yes" or "default", the default key of gpg is used. If the field starts with an
exlamation mark ("!"), the given script is executed to do the signing. Otherwise
the value will be given to libgpgme to determine to key to use.
If there are problems with signing, you can try
gpg --list-secret-keys value
to see how gpg could interprete the value. If that command does not list any keys
or multiple ones, try to find some other value (like the keyid), that gpg can more
easily associate with a unique key.
If this key has a passphrase, you need to use gpg-agent or the insecure option
--ask-passphrase.
A '!' hook script is looked for in the confdir, unless it starts with ~/, ./, +b/,
+o/, +c/ or / . Is gets three command line arguments: The filename to sign, an
empty argument or the filename to create with an inline signature (i.e. InRelease)
and an empty argument or the filename to create an detached signature (i.e.
Release.gpg). The script may generate no Release.gpg file if it choses to (then
the repository will look like unsigned for older clients), but generating empty
files is not allowed. Reprepro waits for the script to finish and will abort the
exporting of the distribution this signing is part of unless the scripts returns
normally with exit code 0. Using a space after ! is recommended to avoid
incompatibilities with possible future extensions.
DebOverride
When this field is present, it describes the override file used when including .deb
files.
UDebOverride
When this field is present, it describes the override file used when including
.udeb files.
DscOverride
When this field is present, it describes the override file used when including .dsc
files.
DebIndices, UDebIndices, DscIndices
Choose what kind of Index files to export. The first part describes what the Index
file shall be called. The second argument determines the name of a Release file to
generate or not to generate if missing. Then at least one of ".", ".gz", ".xz" or
".bz2" specifying whether to generate uncompressed output, gzipped output, bzip2ed
output or any combination. (bzip2 is only available when compiled with bzip2
support, so it might not be available when you compiled it on your own, same for xz
and liblzma). If an argument not starting with dot follows, it will be executed
after all index files are generated. (See the examples for what argument this
gets). The default is:
DebIndices: Packages Release . .gz
UDebIndices: Packages . .gz
DscIndices: Sources Release .gz
ExportOptions
Options to modify how and if exporting is done:
noexport Never export this distribution. That means there will be no directory
below dists/ generated and the distribution is only useful to copy packages to
other distributions.
keepunknown Ignore unknown files and directories in the exported directory. This
is currently the only available option and the default, but might change in the
future, so it can already be requested explicitly.
Contents
Enable the creation of Contents files listing all the files within the binary
packages of a distribution. (Which is quite slow, you have been warned).
In earlier versions, the first argument was a rate at which to extract file lists.
As this did not work and was no longer easily possible after some factorisation,
this is no longer supported.
The arguments of this field is a space separated list of options. If there is a
udebs keyword, .udebs are also listed (in a file called uContents-architecture.)
If there is a nodebs keyword, .debs are not listed. (Only useful together with
udebs) If there is at least one of the keywords ., .gz, .xz and/or .bz2, the
Contents files are written uncompressed, gzipped and/or bzip2ed instead of only
gzipped.
If there is a percomponent then one Contents-arch file per component is created.
If there is a allcomponents then one global Contents-arch file is generated. If
both are given, both are created. If none of both is specified then percomponent
is taken as default (earlier versions had other defaults).
The switches compatsymlink or nocompatsymlink (only possible if allcomponents was
not specified explicitly) control whether a compatibility symlink is created so old
versions of apt-file looking for the component independent filenames at least see
the contents of the first component.
Unless allcomponents is given, compatsymlinks currently is the default, but that
will change in some future (current estimate: after wheezy was released)
ContentsArchitectures
Limit generation of Contents files to the architectures given. If this field is
not there, all architectures are processed. An empty field means no architectures
are processed, thus not very useful.
ContentsComponents
Limit what components are processed for the Contents-arch files to the components
given. If this field is not there, all components are processed. An empty field
is equivalent to specify nodebs in the Contents field, while a non-empty field
overrides a nodebs there.
ContentsUComponents
Limit what components are processed for the uContents files to the components
given. If this field is not there and there is the udebs keyword in the Contents
field, all .udebs of all components are put in the uContents.arch files. If this
field is not there and there is no udebs keyword in the Contents field, no
uContents-arch files are generated at all. A non-empty fields implies generation
of uContents-arch files (just like the udebs keyword in the Contents field), while
an empty one causes no uContents-arch files to be generated.
Uploaders
Specifies a file (relative to confdir if not starting with ~/, +b/, +c/ or / ) to
specify who is allowed to upload packages. Without this there are no limits, and
this file can be ignored via --ignore=uploaders. See the section UPLOADERS FILES
below.
Tracking
Enable the (experimental) tracking of source packages. The argument list needs to
contain exactly one of the following:
keep Keeps all files of a given source package, until that is deleted explicitly
via removetrack. This is currently the only possibility to keep older packages
around when all indices contain newer files.
all Keep all files belonging to a given source package until the last file of it is
no longer used within that distribution.
minimal Remove files no longer included in the tracked distribution. (Remove
changes, logs and includebyhand files once no file is in any part of the
distribution).
And any number of the following (or none):
includechanges Add the .changes file to the tracked files of a source package.
Thus it is also put into the pool.
includebyhand Add byhand and raw-* files to the tracked files and thus in the pool.
includebuildinfos Add buildinfo files to the tracked files and thus in the pool.
includelogs Add log files to the tracked files and thus in the pool. (Not that
putting log files in changes files is a reprepro extension not found in normal
changes files)
embargoalls Not yet implemented.
keepsources Even when using minimal mode, do not remove source files until no file
is needed any more.
needsources Not yet implemented.
Log Specify a file to log additions and removals of this distribution into and/or
external scripts to call when something is added or removed. The rest of the Log:
line is the filename, every following line (as usual, have to begin with a single
space) the name of a script to call. The name of the script may be preceded with
options of the form --type=(dsc|deb|udeb), --architecture=name or --component=name
to only call the script for some parts of the distribution. An script with
argument --changes is called when a .changes file was accepted by include or
processincoming (and with other arguments). Both type of scripts can have a
--via=command specified, in which case it is only called when caused by reprepro
command command.
For information how it is called and some examples take a look at manual.html in
reprepro's source or /usr/share/doc/reprepro/
If the filename for the log files does not start with a slash, it is relative to
the directory specified with --logdir, the scripts are relative to --confdir unless
starting with ~/, +b/, +c/ or /.
ValidFor
If this field exists, an Valid-Until field is put into generated Release files for
this distribution with an date as much in the future as the argument specifies.
The argument has to be an number followed by one of the units d, m or y, where d
means days, m means 31 days and y means 365 days. So ValidFor: 1m 11 d causes the
generation of a Valid-Until: header in Release files that points 42 days into the
future.
ReadOnly
Disallow all modifications of this distribution or its directory in dists/codename
(with the exception of snapshot subdirectories).
ByHandHooks
This species hooks to call for handling byhand/raw files by processincoming (and in
future versions perhaps by include).
Each line consists out of 4 arguments: A glob pattern for the section (clasically
byhand, though Ubuntu uses raw-*), a glob pattern for the priority (not usually
used), and a glob pattern for the filename.
The 4th argument is the script to be called when all of the above match. It gets 5
arguments: the codename of the distribution, the section (usually byhand), the
priority (usually only -), the filename in the changes file and the full filename
(with processincoming in the secure TempDir).
Signed-By
This optional field is simply copied into the Release files. It is used to tell
apt which keys to trust for this Release in the future. (see SignWith for how to
tell reprepro whether and how to sign).
conf/updates
Name The name of this update-upstream as it can be used in the Update field in
conf/distributions.
Method An URI as one could also give it apt, e.g. http://ftp.debian.de/debian which is
simply given to the corresponding apt-get method. (So either apt-get has to be
installed, or you have to point with --methoddir to a place where such methods are
found.
Fallback
(Still experimental:) A fallback URI, where all files are tried that failed the
first one. They are given to the same method as the previous URI (e.g. both
http://), and the fallback-server must have everything at the same place. No
recalculation is done, but single files are just retried from this location.
Config This can contain any number of lines, each in the format apt-get --option would
expect. (Multiple lines ‐ as always ‐ marked with leading spaces).
For example: Config: Acquire::Http::Proxy=http://proxy.yours.org:8080
From The name of another update rule this rules derives from. The rule containing the
From may not contain Method, Fallback or Config. All other fields are used from
the rule referenced in From, unless found in this containing the From. The rule
referenced in From may itself contain a From. Reprepro will only assume two remote
index files are the same, if both get their Method information from the same rule.
Suite The suite to update from. If this is not present, the codename of the distribution
using this one is used. Also "*/whatever" is replaced by "<codename>/whatever"
Components
The components to update. Each item can be either the name of a component or a pair
of a upstream component and a local component separated with ">". (e.g. "main>all
contrib>all non-free>notall")
If this field is not there, all components from the distribution to update are
tried.
An empty field means no source or .deb packages are updated by this rule, but only
.udeb packages, if there are any.
A rule might list components not available in all distributions using this rule. In
this case unknown components are silently ignored. (Unless you start reprepro with
the --fast option, it will warn about components unusable in all distributions
using that rule. As exceptions, unusable components called none are never warned
about, for compatibility with versions prior to 3.0.0 where and empty field had a
different meaning.)
Architectures
The architectures to update. If omitted all from the distribution to update from.
(As with components, you can use ">" to download from one architecture and add into
another one. (This only determine in which Package list they land, it neither
overwrites the Architecture line in its description, nor the one in the filename
determined from this one. In other words, it is no really useful without additional
filtering))
UDebComponents
Like Components but for the udebs.
VerifyRelease
Download the Release.gpg file and check if it is a signature of the Releasefile
with the key given here. (In the Format as "gpg --with-colons --list-key" prints
it, i.e. the last 16 hex digits of the fingerprint) Multiple keys can be specified
by separating them with a "|" sign. Then finding a signature from one of the will
suffice. To allow revoked or expired keys, add a "!" behind a key. (but to accept
such signatures, the appropriate --ignore is also needed). To also allow subkeys
of a specified key, add a "+" behind a key.
IgnoreRelease: yes
If this is present, no InRelease or Release file will be downloaded and thus the
md5sums of the other index files will not be checked.
GetInRelease: no
IF this is present, no InRelease file is downloaded but only Release (and
Release.gpg ) are tried.
Flat If this field is in an update rule, it is supposed to be a flat repository, i.e. a
repository without a dists dir and no subdirectories for the index files. (If the
corresponding sources.list line has the suite end with a slash, then you might need
this one.) The argument for the Flat: field is the Component to put those packages
into. No Components or UDebComponents fields are allowed in a flat update rule.
If the Architecture field has any > items, the part left of the ">" is ignored.
For example the sources.list line
deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch-cran/
would translate to
Name: R
Method: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian
Suite: etch-cran
Flat: whatevercomponentyoudlikethepackagesin
IgnoreHashes
This directive tells reprepro to not check the listed hashes in the downloaded
Release file (and only in the Release file). Possible values are currently md5,
sha1 and sha256.
Note that this does not speed anything up in any measurable way. The only reason to
specify this if the Release file of the distribution you want to mirror from uses a
faulty algorithm implementation. Otherwise you will gain nothing and only lose
security.
FilterFormula
This can be a formula to specify which packages to accept from this source. The
format is misusing the parser intended for Dependency lines. To get only
architecture all packages use "architecture (== all)", to get only at least
important packages use "priority (==required) | priority (==important)".
See the description of the listfilter command for the semantics of formulas.
FilterList, FilterSrcList
These two options each take at least two arguments: The first argument is the
fallback (default) action. All following arguments are treated as file names of
lists.
The filenames are considered to be relative to --confdir, if not starting with ~/,
+b/, +c/ or /.
Each list file consists of lines with a package name followed by whitespaced
followed by an action.
Each list may only contain a single line for a given package name. The action to
be taken is the action specified by the first file mentioning that package. If no
list file mentions a package, the fallback action is used instead.
This format is inspired by dpkg --get-selections before multiarch and the names of
the actions likely only make sense if you imagine the file to be the output of this
command of an existing system.
For each package available in the distribution to be updated from/pulled from this
action is determined and affects the current decision what to do to the target
distribution. (Only after all update/pull rules for a given target distribution
have been processed something is actually done).
The possible action keywords are:
install
mark the available package to be added to the target distribution unless the
same version or a higher version is already marked as to be added/kept.
(Note that without a prior delete rule (-) or supersede action, this will
never downgrade a package as the already existing version is marked to be
kept).
upgradeonly
like install but will not add new packages to a distribution.
supersede
unless the current package version is higher than the available package
version, mark the package to be deleted in the target distribution. (Useful
to remove packages in add-on distributions once they reached the base
distribution).
deinstall or purge
ignore the newly available package.
warning
print a warning message to stderr if a new package/newer version is
available. Otherwise ignore the new package (like with deinstall or purge).
hold the new package is ignored, but every previous decision to downgrade or
delete the package in the target distribution is reset.
error abort the whole upgrade/pull if a new package/newer version is available
= version
If the candidate package has the given version, behave like install.
Otherwise continue as if this list file did not mention this package (i.e.
look in the remaining list files or use the fallback action). Only one such
entry per package is currently supported and the version is currently
compared as string.
If there is both FilterList and FilterSrcList then the first is used for .deb and
.udeb and the second for .dsc packages.
If there is only FilterList that is applied to everything.
If there is only FilterSrcList that is applied to everything, too, but the source
package name (and source version) is used to do the lookup.
OmitExtraSourceOnly
This field controls whether source packages with Extra-Source-Only set are ignore
when getting source packages. Without this option or if it is true, those source
packages are ignored, while if set to no or false, those source packages are also
condidates if no other filter excludes them. (The default of true will likely
change once reprepro supports multiple versions of a package or has other means to
keep the source packages around).
ListHook
If this is given, it is executed for all downloaded index files with the downloaded
list as first and a filename that will be used instead of this. (e.g. "ListHook:
/bin/cp" works but does nothing.)
If a file will be read multiple times, it is processed multiple times, with the
environment variables REPREPRO_FILTER_CODENAME, REPREPRO_FILTER_PACKAGETYPE,
REPREPRO_FILTER_COMPONENT and REPREPRO_FILTER_ARCHITECTURE set to the where this
file will be added and REPREPRO_FILTER_PATTERN to the name of the update rule
causing it.
ListShellHook
This is like ListHook, but the whole argument is given to the shell as argument,
and the input and output file are stdin and stdout.
i.e.:
ListShellHook: cat
works but does nothing but useless use of a shell and cat, while
ListShellHook: grep-dctrl -X -S apt -o -X -S dpkg || [ $? -eq 1 ]
will limit the update rule to packages from the specified source packages.
DownloadListsAs
The arguments of this field specify which index files reprepro will download.
Allowed values are ., .gz, .bz2, .lzma, .xz, .diff, force.gz, force.bz2,
force.lzma, force.xz, and force.diff.
Reprepro will try the first supported variant in the list given: Only compressions
compiled in or for which an uncompressor was found are used. Unless the value
starts with force., it is only tried if is found in the Release or InRelease file.
The default value is .diff .xz .lzma .bz2 .gz ., i.e. download Packages.diff if
listed in the Release file, otherwise or if not usable download .xz if listed in
the Release file and there is a way to uncompress it, then .lzma if usable, then
.bz2 if usable, then .gz and then uncompressed).
Note there is no way to see if an uncompressed variant of the file is available (as
the Release file always lists their checksums, even if not there), so putting '.'
anywhere but as the last argument can mean trying to download a file that does not
exist.
Together with IgnoreRelease reprepro will download the first in this list that
could be unpacked (i.e. force is always assumed) and the default value is .gz
.bzip2 . .lzma .xz.
conf/pulls
This file contains the rules for pulling packages from one distribution to another. While
this can also be done with update rules using the file or copy method and using the
exported indices of that other distribution, this way is faster. It also ensures the
current files are used and no copies are made. (This also leads to the limitation that
pulling from one component to another is not possible.)
Each rule consists out of the following fields:
Name The name of this pull rule as it can be used in the Pull field in
conf/distributions.
From The codename of the distribution to pull packages from.
Components
The components of the distribution to get from.
If this field is not there, all components from the distribution to update are
tried.
A rule might list components not available in all distributions using this rule. In
this case unknown components are silently ignored. (Unless you start reprepro with
the --fast option, it will warn about components unusable in all distributions
using that rule. As exception, unusable components called none are never warned
about, for compatibility with versions prior to 3.0.0 where and empty field had a
different meaning.)
Architectures
The architectures to update. If omitted all from the distribution to pull from.
As in conf/updates, you can use ">" to download from one architecture and add into
another one. (And again, only useful with filtering to avoid packages not
architecture all to migrate).
UDebComponents
Like Components but for the udebs.
FilterFormula
FilterList
FilterSrcList
The same as with update rules.
OVERRIDE FILES
The format of override files used by reprepro should resemble the extended ftp-archive
format, to be specific it is:
packagename field name new value
For example:
kernel-image-2.4.31-yourorga Section protected/base
kernel-image-2.4.31-yourorga Priority standard
kernel-image-2.4.31-yourorga Maintainer That's me <me@localhost>
reprepro Priority required
All fields of a given package will be replaced by the new value specified in the override
file with the exception of special fields starting with a dollar sign ($). While the
field name is compared case-insensitive, it is copied in exactly the form in the override
file there. (Thus I suggest to keep to the exact case it is normally found in index files
in case some other tool confuses them.) More than copied is the Section header (unless -S
is supplied), which is also used to guess the component (unless -C is there).
Some values like Package, Filename, Size or MD5sum are forbidden, as their usage would
severely confuse reprepro.
As an extension reprepro also supports patterns instead of packagenames. If the package
name contains '*', '[' or '?', it is considered a pattern and applied to each package that
is not matched by any non-pattern override nor by any previous pattern.
Fieldnames starting with a dollar ($) are not be placed in the exported control data but
have special meaning. Unknown ones are loudly ignored. Special fields are:
$Component: includedeb, includedsc, include and processincoming will put the package in
the component given as value (unless itself overridden with -C). Note that the proper way
to specify the component is by setting the section field and using this extension will
most likely confuse people and/or tools.
$Delete: the value is treated a fieldname and fields of that name are removed. (This way
one can remove fields previously added without removing and readding the package. And
fields already included in the package can be removed, too).
conf/incoming
Every chunk is a rule set for the process_incoming command. Possible fields are:
Name The name of the rule-set, used as argument to the scan command to specify to use
this rule.
IncomingDir
The Name of the directory to scan for .changes files.
TempDir
A directory where the files listed in the processed .changes files are copied into
before they are read. You can avoid some copy operations by placing this directory
within the same moint point the pool hierarchy is (at least partially) in.
LogDir A directory where .changes files, .log files, .buildinfo files and otherwise unused
.byhand files are stored upon procession.
Allow Each argument is either a pair name1>name2 or simply name which is short for
name>name. Each name2 must identify a distribution, either by being Codename, a
unique Suite, or a unique AlsoAcceptFor from conf/distributions. Each upload has
each item in its Distribution: header compared first to last with each name1 in the
rules and is put in the first one accepting this package. e.g.:
Allow: local unstable>sid
or
Allow: stable>security-updates stable>proposed-updates
(Note that this makes only sense if Multiple is set to true or if there are people
only allowed to upload to proposed-updates but not to security-updates).
Default distribution
Every upload not put into any other distribution because of an Allow argument is
put into distribution if that accepts it.
Multiple
Old form of Options: multiple_distributions.
Options
A list of options
multiple_distributions
Allow including a upload in multiple distributions.
If a .changes file lists multiple distributions, then reprepro will start with the
first name given, check all Accept and Default options till it finds a distribution
this upload can go into.
If this found no distribution or if this option was given, reprepro will then do
the same with the second distribution name given in the .changes file and so on.
limit_arch_all
If an upload contains binaries from some architecture and architecture all
packages, the architecture all packages are only put into the architectures within
this upload. Useful to combine with the flood command.
Permit A list of options to allow things otherwise causing errors:
unused_files
Do not stop with error if there are files listed in the .changes file if it lists
files not belonging to any package in it.
older_version
Ignore a package not added because there already is a strictly newer version
available instead of treating this as an error.
unlisted_binaries
Do not abort with an error if a .changes file contains .deb files that are not
listed in the Binaries header.
Cleanup options
A list of options to cause more files in the incoming directory to be deleted:
unused_files
If there is unused_files in Permit then also delete those files when the package is
deleted after successful processing.
unused_buildinfo_files
If .buildinfo files of processed .changes files are not used (neither stored by
LogDir nor with Tracking: includebuildinfos) then delete them from the incoming
dir. (This option has no additional effect if unused_files is already used.)
on_deny
If a .changes file is denied processing because of missing signatures or allowed
distributions to be put in, delete it and all the files it references.
on_error
If a .changes file causes errors while processing, delete it and the files it
references.
Note that allowing cleanup in publically accessible incoming queues allows a denial
of service by sending in .changes files deleting other peoples files before they
are completed. Especially when .changes files are handled directly (e.g. by
inoticoming).
MorgueDir
If files are to be deleted by Cleanup, they are instead moved to a subdirectory of
the directory given as value to this field. This directory has to be on the same
partition as the incoming directory and files are moved (i.e. owner and permission
stay the same) and never copied.
UPLOADERS FILES
These files specified by the Uploaders header in the distribution definition as explained
above describe what key a .changes file as to be signed with to be included in that
distribution.
Empty lines and lines starting with a hash are ignored, every other line must be of one of
the following nine forms or an include directive:
allow condition by anybody
which allows everyone to upload packages matching condition,
allow condition by unsigned
which allows everything matching that has no pgp/gpg header,
allow condition by any key
which allows everything matching with any valid signature in or
allow condition by key key-id
which allows everything matching signed by this key-id (to be specified without any
spaces). If the key-id ends with a + (plus), a signature with a subkey of this
primary key also suffices.
key-id must be a suffix of the id libgpgme uses to identify this key, i.e. a number
of hexdigits from the end of the fingerprint of the key, but no more than what
libgpgme uses. (The maximal number should be what gpg --list-key --with-colons
prints, as of the time of this writing that is at most 16 hex-digits).
allow condition by group groupname
which allows every member of group groupname. Groups can be manipulated by
group groupname add key-id
to add a key-id (see above for details) to this group, or
group groupname contains groupname
to add a whole group to a group.
To avoid warnings in incomplete config files there is also
group groupname empty
to declare a group has no members (avoids warnings that it is used without those)
and
group groupname unused
to declare that a group is not yet used (avoid warnings that it is not used).
A line starting with include causes the rest of the line to be interpreted as filename,
which is opened and processed before the rest of the file is processed.
The only conditions currently supported are:
* which means any package,
source 'name'
which means any package with source name. ('*', '?' and '[..]' are treated as in
shell wildcards).
sections 'name'(|'name')*
matches an upload in which each section matches one of the names given. As upload
conditions are checked very early, this is the section listed in the .changes file,
not the one from the override file. (But this might change in the future, if you
have the need for the one or the other behavior, let me know).
sections contain 'name'(|'name')*
The same, but not all sections must be from the given set, but at least one source
or binary package needs to have one of those given.
binaries 'name'(|'name')*
matches an upload in which each binary (type deb or udeb) matches one of the names
given.
binaries contain 'name'(|'name')*
again only at least one instead of all is required.
architectures 'architecture'(|'name')*
matches an upload in which each package has only architectures from the given set.
source and all are treated as unique architectures. Wildcards are not allowed.
architectures contain 'architecture'(|'architecture')*
again only at least one instead of all is required.
byhand matches an upload with at least one byhand file (i.e. a file with section byhand or
raw-something).
byhand 'section'(|'section')*
matches an upload with at least one byhand file and all byhand files having a
section listed in the list of given section. (i.e. byhand 'byhand'|'raw-*' is
currently is the same as byhand).
distribution 'codename'
which means any package when it is to be included in codename. As the uploaders
file is given by distribution, this is only useful to reuse a complex uploaders
file for multiple distributions.
Putting not in front of a condition, inverses it's meaning. For example
allow not source 'r*' by anybody
means anybody may upload packages which source name does not start with an 'r'.
Multiple conditions can be connected with and and or, with or binding stronger (but both
weaker than not). That means
allow source 'r*' and source '*xxx' or source '*o' by anybody
is equivalent to
allow source 'r*xxx' by anybody
allow source 'r*o' by anybody
(Other conditions will follow once somebody tells me what restrictions are useful.
Currently planned is only something for architectures).
ERROR IGNORING
With --ignore on the command line or an ignore line in the options file, the following
type of errors can be ignored:
brokenold (hopefully never seen)
If there are errors parsing an installed version of package, do not error out, but
assume it is older than anything else, has not files or no source name.
brokensignatures
If a .changes or .dsc file contains at least one invalid signature and no valid
signature (not even expired or from an expired or revoked key), reprepro assumes
the file got corrupted and refuses to use it unless this ignore directive is given.
brokenversioncmp (hopefully never seen)
If comparing old and new version fails, assume the new one is newer.
dscinbinnmu
If a .changes file has an explicit Source version that is different the to the
version header of the file, than reprepro assumes it is binary non maintainer
upload (NMU). In that case, source files are not permitted in .changes files
processed by include or processincoming. Adding --ignore=dscinbinnmu allows it for
the include command.
emptyfilenamepart (insecure)
Allow strings to be empty that are used to construct filenames. (like versions,
architectures, ...)
extension
Allow one to includedeb files that do not end with .deb, to includedsc files not
ending in .dsc and to include files not ending in .changes.
forbiddenchar (insecure)
Do not insist on Debian policy for package and source names and versions. Thus
allowing all 7-bit characters but slashes (as they would break the file storage)
and things syntactically active (spaces, underscores in filenames in .changes
files, opening parentheses in source names of binary packages). To allow some
8-bit chars additionally, use 8bit additionally.
8bit (more insecure)
Allow 8-bit characters not looking like overlong UTF-8 sequences in filenames and
things used as parts of filenames. Though it hopefully rejects overlong UTF-8
sequences, there might be other characters your filesystem confuses with special
characters, thus creating filenames possibly equivalent to
/mirror/pool/main/../../../etc/shadow (Which should be safe, as you do not run
reprepro as root, do you?) or simply overwriting your conf/distributions file
adding some commands in there. So do not use this if you are paranoid, unless you
are paranoid enough to have checked the code of your libs, kernel and filesystems.
ignore (for forward compatibility)
Ignore unknown ignore types given to --ignore.
flatandnonflat (only suppresses a warning)
Do not warn about a flat and a non-flat distribution from the same source with the
same name when updating. (Hopefully never ever needed.)
malformedchunk (I hope you know what you do)
Do not stop when finding a line not starting with a space but no colon(:) in it.
These are otherwise rejected as they have no defined meaning.
missingfield (safe to ignore)
Ignore missing fields in a .changes file that are only checked but not processed.
Those include: Format, Date, Urgency, Maintainer, Description, Changes
missingfile (might be insecure)
When including a .dsc file from a .changes file, try to get files needed but not
listed in the .changes file (e.g. when someone forgot to specify -sa to
dpkg-buildpackage) from the directory the .changes file is in instead of erroring
out. (--delete will not work with those files, though.)
spaceonlyline (I hope you know what you do)
Allow lines containing only (but non-zero) spaces. As these do not separate chunks
as thus will cause reprepro to behave unexpected, they cause error messages by
default.
surprisingarch
Do not reject a .changes file containing files for a architecture not listed in the
Architecture-header within it.
surprisingbinary
Do not reject a .changes file containing .deb files containing packages whose name
is not listed in the "Binary:" header of that changes file.
undefinedtarget (hope you are not using the wrong db directory)
Do not stop when the packages.db file contains databases for
codename/packagetype/component/architectures combinations that are not listed in
your distributions file.
This allows you to temporarily remove some distribution from the config files,
without having to remove the packages in it with the clearvanished command. You
might even temporarily remove single architectures or components, though that might
cause inconsistencies in some situations.
undefinedtracking (hope you are not using the wrong db directory)
Do not stop when the tracking file contains databases for distributions that are
not listed in your distributions file.
This allows you to temporarily remove some distribution from the config files,
without having to remove the packages in it with the clearvanished command. You
might even temporarily disable tracking in some distribution, but that is likely to
cause inconsistencies in there, if you do not know, what you are doing.
unknownfield (for forward compatibility)
Ignore unknown fields in the config files, instead of refusing to run then.
unusedarch (safe to ignore)
No longer reject a .changes file containing no files for any of the architectures
listed in the Architecture-header within it.
unusedoption
Do not complain about command line options not used by the specified action (like
--architecture).
uploaders
The include command will accept packages that would otherwise been rejected by the
uploaders file.
wrongarchitecture (safe to ignore)
Do not warn about wrong "Architecture:" lines in downloaded Packages files. (Note
that wrong Architectures are always ignored when getting stuff from flat
repostories or importing stuff from one architecture to another).
wrongdistribution (safe to ignore)
Do not error out if a .changes file is to be placed in a distribution not listed in
that files' Distributions: header.
wrongsourceversion
Do not reject a .changes file containing .deb files with a different opinion on
what the version of the source package is.
(Note: reprepro only compares literally here, not by meaning.)
wrongversion
Do not reject a .changes file containing .dsc files with a different version.
(Note: reprepro only compares literally here, not by meaning.)
expiredkey (I hope you know what you do)
Accept signatures with expired keys. (Only if the expired key is explicitly
requested).
expiredsignature (I hope you know what you do)
Accept expired signatures with expired keys. (Only if the key is explicitly
requested).
revokedkey (I hope you know what you do)
Accept signatures with revoked keys. (Only if the revoked key is explicitly
requested).
GUESSING
When including a binary or source package without explicitly declaring a component with -C
it will take the first component with the name of the section, being prefix to the
section, being suffix to the section or having the section as prefix or any. (In this
order)
Thus having specified the components: "main non-free contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free
non-US/contrib" should map e.g. "non-US" to "non-US/main" and "contrib/editors" to
"contrib", while having only "main non-free and contrib" as components should map
"non-US/contrib" to "contrib" and "non-US" to "main".
NOTE: Always specify main as the first component, if you want things to end up there.
NOTE: unlike in dak, non-US and non-us are different things...
NOMENCLATURE
Codename the primary identifier of a given distribution. This are normally things like
sarge, etch or sid.
basename
the name of a file without any directory information.
byhand Changes files can have files with section 'byhand' (Debian) or 'raw-' (Ubuntu).
Those files are not packages but other data generated (usually together with
packages) and then uploaded together with this changes files.
With reprepro those can be stored in the pool next to their packages with tracking,
put in some log directory when using processincoming, or given to an hook script
(currently only possible with processincoming).
filekey
the position relative to the outdir. (as found in "Filename:" in Packages.gz)
full filename
the position relative to /
architecture
The term like sparc, i386, mips, ... . To refer to the source packages, source is
sometimes also treated as architecture.
component
Things like main, non-free and contrib (by policy and some other programs also
called section, reprepro follows the naming scheme of apt here.)
section
Things like base, interpreters, oldlibs and non-free/math (by policy and some other
programs also called subsections).
md5sum The checksum of a file in the format "<md5sum of file> <length of file>"
Some note on updates
A version is not overwritten with the same version.
reprepro will never update a package with a version it already has. This would be
equivalent to rebuilding the whole database with every single upgrade. To force the new
same version in, remove it and then update. (If files of the packages changed without
changing their name, make sure the file is no longer remembered by reprepro. Without
--keepunreferencedfiled and without errors while deleting it should already be forgotten,
otherwise a deleteunreferenced or even some __forget might help.)
The magic delete rule ("-").
A minus as a single word in the Update: line of a distribution marks everything to be
deleted. The mark causes later rules to get packages even if they have (strict) lower
versions. The mark will get removed if a later rule sets the package on hold (hold is not
yet implemented, in case you might wonder) or would get a package with the same version
(Which it will not, see above). If the mark is still there at the end of the processing,
the package will get removed.
Thus the line "Update: - rules " will cause all packages to be exactly the highest Version
found in rules. The line "Update: near - rules " will do the same, except if it needs to
download packages, it might download it from near except when too confused. (It will get
too confused e.g. when near or rules have multiple versions of the package and the highest
in near is not the first one in rules, as it never remember more than one possible spring
for a package.
Warning: This rule applies to all type/component/architecture triplets of a distribution,
not only those some other update rule applies to. (That means it will delete everything
in those!)
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Environment variables are always overwritten by command line options, but overwrite
options set in the options file. (Even when the options file is obviously parsed after the
environment variables as the environment may determine the place of the options file).
REPREPRO_BASE_DIR
The directory in this variable is used instead of the current directory, if no -b
or --basedir options are supplied.
It is also set in all hook scripts called by reprepro (relative to the current
directory or absolute, depending on how reprepro got it).
REPREPRO_CONFIG_DIR
The directory in this variable is used when no --confdir is supplied.
It is also set in all hook scripts called by reprepro (relative to the current
directory or absolute, depending on how reprepro got it).
REPREPRO_OUT_DIR
This is not used, but only set in hook scripts called by reprepro to the directory
in which the pool subdirectory resides (relative to the current directory or
absolute, depending on how reprepro got it).
REPREPRO_DIST_DIR
This is not used, but only set in hook scripts called by reprepro to the dists
directory (relative to the current directory or absolute, depending on how reprepro
got it).
REPREPRO_LOG_DIR
This is not used, but only set in hook scripts called by reprepro to the value
setable by --logdir.
REPREPRO_CAUSING_COMMAND
REPREPRO_CAUSING_FILE
Those two environment variable are set (or unset) in Log: and ByHandHooks: scripts
and hint what command and what file caused the hook to be called (if there is
some).
REPREPRO_CAUSING_RULE
This environment variable is set (or unset) in Log: scripts and hint what update or
pull rule caused this change.
REPREPRO_FROM
This environment variable is set (or unset) in Log: scripts and denotes what other
distribution a package is copied from (with pull and copy commands).
REPREPRO_FILTER_ARCHITECTURE
REPREPRO_FILTER_CODENAME
REPREPRO_FILTER_COMPONENT
REPREPRO_FILTER_PACKAGETYPE
REPREPRO_FILTER_PATTERN
Set in FilterList: and FilterSrcList: scripts.
GNUPGHOME
Not used by reprepro directly. But reprepro uses libgpgme, which calls gpg for
signing and verification of signatures. And your gpg will most likely use the
content of this variable instead of "~/.gnupg". Take a look at gpg(1) to be sure.
You can also tell reprepro to set this with the --gnupghome option.
GPG_TTY
When there is a gpg-agent running that does not have the passphrase cached yet, gpg
will most likely try to start some pinentry program to get it. If that is
pinentry-curses, that is likely to fail without this variable, because it cannot
find a terminal to ask on. In this cases you might set this variable to something
like the value of $(tty) or $SSH_TTY or anything else denoting a usable terminal.
(You might also want to make sure you actually have a terminal available. With ssh
you might need the -t option to get a terminal even when telling gpg to start a
specific command).
By default, reprepro will set this variable to what the symbolic link
/proc/self/fd/0 points to, if stdin is a terminal, unless you told with
--noguessgpgtty to not do so.
BUGS
Increased verbosity always shows those things one does not want to know. (Though this
might be inevitable and a corollary to Murphy)
Reprepro uses berkeley db, which was a big mistake. The most annoying problem not yet
worked around is database corruption when the disk runs out of space. (Luckily if it
happens while downloading packages while updating, only the files database is affected,
which is easy (though time consuming) to rebuild, see recovery file in the documentation).
Ideally put the database on another partition to avoid that.
While the source part is mostly considered as the architecture source some parts may still
not use this notation.
WORK-AROUNDS TO COMMON PROBLEMS
gpgme returned an impossible condition
With the woody version this normally meant that there was no .gnupg directory in
$HOME, but it created one and reprepro succeeds when called again with the same
command. Since sarge the problem sometimes shows up, too. But it is no longer
reproducible and it does not fix itself, neither. Try running gpg --verify file-
you-had-problems-with manually as the user reprepro is running and with the same
$HOME. This alone might fix the problem. It should not print any messages except
perhaps
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: the signature could not be verified.
if it was an unsigned file.
not including .orig.tar.gz when a .changes file's version does not end in -0 or -1
If dpkg-buildpackage is run without the -sa option to build a version with a Debian
revision not being -0 or -1, it does not list the .orig.tar.gz file in the .changes
file. If you want to include such a file with reprepro when the .orig.tar.gz file
does not already exist in the pool, reprepro will report an error. This can be
worked around by:
call dpkg-buildpackage with -sa (recommended)
copy the .orig.tar.gz file to the proper place in the pool before
call reprepro with --ignore=missingfile (discouraged)
leftover files in the pool directory.
reprepro is sometimes a bit too timid of deleting stuff. When things go wrong and
there have been errors it sometimes just leaves everything where it is. To see
what files reprepro remembers to be in your pool directory but does not know
anything needing them right know, you can use
reprepro dumpunreferenced
To delete them:
reprepro deleteunreferenced
INTERRUPTING
Interrupting reprepro has its problems. Some things (like speaking with apt methods,
database stuff) can cause problems when interrupted at the wrong time. Then there are
design problems of the code making it hard to distinguish if the current state is
dangerous or non-dangerous to interrupt. Thus if reprepro receives a signal normally sent
to tell a process to terminate itself softly, it continues its operation, but does not
start any new operations. (I.e. it will not tell the apt-methods any new file to
download, it will not replace a package in a target, unless it already had started with
it, it will not delete any files gotten dereferenced, and so on).
It only catches the first signal of each type. The second signal of a given type will
terminate reprepro. You will risk database corruption and have to remove the lockfile
manually.
Also note that even normal interruption leads to code-paths mostly untested and thus
expose a multitude of bugs including those leading to data corruption. Better think a
second more before issuing a command than risking the need for interruption.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs or wishlist requests to the Debian BTS
(e.g. by using reportbug reprepro under Debian)
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