Ubuntu Manpage: pacorc - configuration file for paco

NAME

       pacorc - configuration file for paco

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/pacorc

DESCRIPTION

       pacorc is the system-wide configuration file for paco(8), the source code package organizer.

SYNTAX

       The  file  consists  of  comments and key-value pairs. Comments are on separate lines that start with a #
       symbol. The key-value pairs are on the form:
              key=value
       where key contains no whitespace and no equal signs.
       value will be all of the text after the equal sign until (but not including) the ending newline.
       Occurences of $HOME and ${HOME} in value are expanded to the value of the environment variable HOME.

OPTIONS

The following options can be set. The equivalent command line options (if any), are listed in brackets:

LOGDIR [-L|--logdir]
Base paco logs directory. Default is '/var/log/paco'.

MAX_DB_AGE
Maximmum database age (maximmum number of days since the last update of the whole database). When
this limit is reached paco prints a warning message. If set to zero, the database is never
considered too old. Default is 7.

INCLUDE [-I|--include]
Colon-separated list of paths to scan when logging the installation of a package. Default is '/'.
Shell wildcards are allowed in the paths. See PATH MATCHING below for more details.

EXCLUDE [-E|--exclude]
Colon-separated list of paths to skip when logging the installation of a package. Default is
'/dev:/tmp:/usr/src:/media:/sys:/usr/share/info/dir'.
Shell wildcards are allowed in the paths. See PATH MATCHING below for more details.

BLOCK_SIZE
File sizes in the logs are rounded up to the nearest multiple of this value. This should be set to
the block size of the file system. For most systems this is 4096. If set to zero, paco retrieves
the block size of the file system for each file, which is the most accurate but time consuming
choice. Default is 0.
Note: This is not the same as the command line option -b (or --block-size).

APPARENT_SIZE
Like BLOCK_SIZE=1.

LOG_IGNORE_ERRORS [--ignore-errors]
Setting this variable to 1 makes paco log packages even if the install command fails. This allows
for logging uncomplete installations, or clean the filesystem after an installation failure.
Default is 0.

LOG_IGNORE_SHARED [--ignore-shared]
Setting this variable to 1 makes paco skip shared files when logging packages. Default is 0.

CASE_SENSITIVE
Setting this variable to 1 makes paco behave case-sensitively when matching the package names
given by the command line against the logged packages. Default is 0.

PATH MATCHING

       Variables INCLUDE and EXCLUDE accept a colon-separated list of paths, each of which  may  contain  shell-
       like  wildcards  (*,  ? and [..]).  Files are matched against each of those paths, following the standard
       shell-like expansion, but with the following exception: If a path  in  the  list  does  not  contain  any
       wildcard, and it is a directory, it matches any file within that directory.

ENVIRONMENT

       Paco honours the following environment variable:

       PACO_DEBUG
              If set to "yes", paco produces debugging messages, like the command line option '-vv'.

FILES

       /etc/pacorc - active configuration file
       /usr/share/paco/pacorc - sample configuration file

WEB SITE

       The latest version of paco should be always available at:
            http://paco.sourceforge.net

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2009 David Rosal <davidrr@sourceforge.net>
       This  is  free  software;  see  the  source  for  copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.