NAME
mount.aptfs - a FUSE filesystem that displays unpacked sources packages
from APT
SYNOPSIS
mount.aptfs mountpoint [options]
DESCRIPTION
AptFs is a FUSE-based filesystem that provides a view to unpacked
Debian source packages obtained using apt-get source as regular
folders. Binary packages are modelled as symbolic links pointing to
their respective source package.
AptFs maintains a sliding window of unpacked sources packages - it
would not be very helpful if commands such as:
% find /path/to/aptfs
unpacked the entire APT archive into the temporary directory. To
specify the number of packages to keep unpacked at one time, use the -o
max_unpacked_packages=NUM option.
SECURITY
By default, AptFs does not verify GPG signatures of source packages.
This is because the large number of calls to GnuPG cause deadlocking in
both AptFs and other programs using GnuPG. GPG verification is also
slow.
One can re-enable verification using passing -o secure=1 when mounting
AptFs.
AUTHOR
AptFs and this manual page were written by Chris Lamb <chris@chris-
lamb.co.uk>.
This manual page is (C) 2008 by Chris Lamb and is licensed under the
terms of the GPLv3 or higher.
SEE ALSO
mount(8), fstab(5)
March 14, 2008