jablicator(1) [debian man page]

JABLICATOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						     JABLICATOR(1)

NAME

       jablicator - Share package collection choice across machines

SYNOPSIS

       jablicator [--root <path>]

DESCRIPTION

       jablicator  generates  an  "apt-get"-able  package.  The package itself is empty. However it has a dependency for every non-required Debian
       package that is on the machine. This program will create and populate two directories dists and pool in your  working  directory.  You  can
       then move them to a web accessible location.

       This utility is designed to reduce software distribution and maintenance costs by reducing redundant system administration.  For example, I
       have spent a lot of time finding and vetting image processing software from Debian's large package collection. With this utility, my  image
       processing colleague down the hall can easily benefit from the fruit of my labor.

       There are many replication techniques in Debian. This one has the advantage of using the apt and dpkg infrastructure. A disadvantage is the
       possibility of packages changing out from under you in the Debian distribution (especially in testing or unstable). That means that  jabli-
       cator output can grow stale over time if it is not regenerated.

SECURITY

       The  packages produced by this program contain a lot of information, including a list of the Debian packages installed on the machine and a
       listing of apt-get sources. Some system administrators consider sharing such information a security risk.

FILES

       /etc/apt/sources.list

OPTIONS

       --root <path>
	      Being able to pull in package selections from another install can be helpful, in the cases of a non-functional  system,  or  reading
	      from  a  hard  drive install under Knoppix. In other words, source from a root filesystem that is not mounted at the root. This is a
	      rare situation and most users should not use this option.

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(8) apt-get(8).

AUTHOR

       Jeff Breidenbach <jab@debian.org>.

THANKS

       Tom Parks, Cliff Weinstein, Burkhard Perkens-Golomb.

Debian/GNU Linux						  September 2001						     JABLICATOR(1)

APT-SHOW-VERSIONS(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     APT-SHOW-VERSIONS(1p)

NAME

       apt-show-versions - Lists available package versions with distribution

DESCRIPTION

       apt-show-versions parses the dpkg status file and the APT lists for the installed and available package versions and distribution and shows
       upgrade options within the specific distribution of the selected package.

       This is really useful if you have a mixed stable/testing environment and want to list all packages which are from testing and can be
       upgraded in testing.

       apt-show-versions uses caching for the status information of installed and available packages. If you run apt-show-versions as root the
       cache is updated as needed. If you run as non-root uses the newest available information, but can't update the cache. If you run as root
       with the option -i the cache is initialized or updated only.

SYNOPSIS

       apt-show-versions [-h] [[-p] package name] [-a] [-b]

OPTIONS

       If you don't give any options the status of all installed packages is printed.

       -p package, --package=package
	   Print available and installed versions for specified package. You can also specify a package name without the option -p. If -p and a
	   package name are missing, all installed packages are displayed.

       -r, --regex
	   interpret package from option -p as a regex.

       -R, --regex-all
	   like --regex, but also show matching packages which are not installed

       -u, --upgradeable
	   Print only upgradeable packages

       -a, --allversions
	   Print all available versions of the selected packages

       -b, --brief
	   Print only package_name/distribution for upgradeable packages

       -v, --verbose
	   Prints out messages about which Package files are parsed.

       -i, --initialize
	   Initialize or update package cache only (as root). Do this every time when the status of the installed or available packages has
	   changed. Initialization is done automatically on installation of the package and via a cron.daily job.

       -stf file, --status-file=file
	   Use file as the dpkg status file instead of /var/lib/dpkg/status

       -ld directory, --list-dir=directory
	   Use directory as path to apt's list files instead of /var/state/apt/lists/ or /var/lib/apt/lists/

       -h, --help
	   Prints out command-line help.

EXIT CODES

       0   No error

       1   Wrong usage

       2   apt-show-versions has been called with exactly one package and upgradeable option set, but package is uptodate. As no output has been
	   requested, this case gets signaled using the exit code.

       255 Unspecified error

EXAMPLES

       If you want to know for all your installed packages whether they are uptodate or upgradeable, use:

	   apt-show-versions

       If you want to have a list of all upgradeable packages:

	   apt-show-versions -u

       To get a list of all available versions of libc6:

	   apt-show-versions -a -p libc6

       To get information about several packages:

	   apt-show-versions dpkg apt

	   apt-show-versions -r ^texlive

       To upgrade all packages in testing:

	   apt-get install `apt-show-versions -u -b | fgrep testing`

AUTHOR

       Christoph Martin, martin@uni-mainz.de

SEE ALSO

       apt(8), dpkg(1)

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