NAME
debpartial-mirror — debpartial-mirror is a program to generate partial
Debian packages archives mirrors.
SYNOPSIS
apt-get [-hvs] [-o=config string] [-c=file] {update | upgrade |
dselect-upgrade | install pkg ... | remove pkg ... | source pkg
... | build-dep pkg ... | check | clean | autoclean }
DESCRIPTION
debpartial-mirror is a command-line tool to generate partial Debian
packages archives mirrors. It is designed to work (in particular) in
Custom Debian Distributions framework, as an aid to create
customization of debian systems.
Partial mirrors can be generated from different apt repositories (local
created or remote ones) and can contain binary as well as sources
packages.
Generated partial mirrors have the structure of standard apt
repositories: please referr to APT documentation for explanation about
this.
debpartial-mirror uses a configuration file to determine which
packages, are to be downloaded and monitored to generate a local
partial mirror. Packages can be specified by regular expressions, by
list or by mirrors sections.
Default configuration file is /etc/debpartial-mirror.conf.
debpartial-mirror accept commands in the same way apt-get does, and
unless the -h or --help is given, one of the commands below must be
presented.
update update update is used to resynchronize the package index
files from specified sources.
upgrade upgrade upgrade is used to dowload selected binary and source
packages from specified mirrors. The first time this command
is ran the partial mirror is generated: after this, only
newer or updated packages will be downloaded into the mirror.
all all all is used to perform both update and upgrade commands.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (‘-’). A summary of options is
included below.
-h --help
Show summary of options.
-v --version
Show version of program.
-cCONFIGFILE --configfile=CONFIGFILE
Select the confiruration file.
-s --simulate
Do nothing, only simulate all. Actually it is not implemented
-sf --skip-files
Skip downloading of files. Actually it is not implemented
-sp --skip-packages
Skip downloading of packages. Actually it is not implemented
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Otavio Salvador (otavio@debian.org).
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.