NAME
debrsign - remotely sign a Debian changes and dsc file pair using SSH
SYNOPSIS
debrsign [options] [user@]remotehost [changes-file|dsc-file]
DESCRIPTION
debrsign takes either an unsigned .dsc file or an unsigned .changes
file and the associated unsigned .dsc file (found by replacing the
architecture name and .changes by .dsc) if it appears in the .changes
file and signs them by copying them to the remote machine using ssh(1)
and remotely running debsign(1) on that machine. All options not
listed below are passed to the debsign program on the remote machine.
If a .changes or .dsc file is specified, it is signed, otherwise,
debian/changelog is parsed to determine the name of the .changes file
to look for in the parent directory.
This utility is useful if a developer must build a package on one
machine where it is unsafe to sign it; they need then only transfer the
small .dsc and .changes files to a safe machine and then use the
debsign program to sign them before transferring them back. This
program automates this process.
To do it the other way round, that is to connect to an unsafe machine
to download the .dsc and .changes files, to sign them locally and then
to transfer them back, see the debsign(1) program, which can do this
task.
OPTIONS
-S Look for a source-only .changes file instead of a binary-build
changes file.
-adebian-architecture, -tGNU-system-type
See dpkg-architecture(1) for a description of these options.
They affect the search for the .changes file. They are provided
to mimic the behaviour of dpkg-buildpackage when determining the
name of the .changes file.
--multi
Multiarch changes mode: This signifies that debrsign should use
the most recent file with the name pattern
package_version_*+*.changes as the changes file, allowing for
the changes files produced by dpkg-cross.
--path remote-path
Specify a path to the GPG or PGP binary on the remote host.
--help, --version
Show help message and version information respectively.
Other options
All other options are passed on to debsign on the remote
machine.
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
sourced in that order to set configuration variables. Command line
options can be used to override configuration file settings.
Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose. The
currently recognised variables are:
DEBRSIGN_PGP_PATH
Equivalent to passing --path on the command line (see above.)
SEE ALSO
debsign(1), dpkg-architecture(1) and ssh(1).
AUTHOR
This program was written by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> and is
copyright under the GPL, version 2 or later.