Adding upstream version 1.19.8.upstream/1.19.8upstream

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+.\" dpkg manual page - dpkg-scanpackages(1)
+.\"
+.\" Copyright © 1996 Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net>
+.\" Copyright © 2006 Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
+.\" Copyright © 2007, 2009, 2011-2014 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+.\" Copyright © 2009 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
+.\"
+.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.
+.TH dpkg\-scanpackages 1 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite"
+.nh
+.SH NAME
+dpkg\-scanpackages \- create Packages index files
+.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B dpkg\-scanpackages
+.RI [ option "...] " binary-path
+.RI [ override-file
+.RI [ path-prefix ]]
+.B >
+.I Packages
+.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B dpkg\-scanpackages
+sorts through a tree of Debian binary packages and creates a Packages
+file, used by
+.BR apt (8),
+.BR dselect (1),
+etc, to tell the user what packages are available for installation. These
+Packages files are the same as those found on Debian archive sites
+and CD-ROMs. You might use
+.B dpkg\-scanpackages
+yourself if making a directory of local packages to install on a cluster
+of machines.
+.PP
+.B Note:
+If you want to access the generated Packages file with
+.B apt
+you will probably need to compress the file with
+.BR xz (1)
+(generating a Packages.xz file),
+.BR bzip2 (1)
+(generating a Packages.bz2 file) or
+.BR gzip (1)
+(generating a Packages.gz file). apt ignores uncompressed Packages
+files except on local access (i.e.
+.B file://
+sources).
+.PP
+.I binary-path
+is the name of the tree of the binary packages to process (for example,
+.BR contrib/binary\-i386 ).
+It is best to make this relative to the root of the Debian archive,
+because every Filename field in the new Packages file will start with
+this string.
+.PP
+.I override-file
+is the name of a file to read which contains information about how the
+package fits into the distribution (the file can be compressed
+since dpkg 1.15.5); see
+.BR deb\-override (5).
+.PP
+.I path-prefix
+is an optional string to be prepended to the Filename fields.
+.PP
+If more than one version of a package is found only the newest one
+is included in the output. If they have the same version and only
+differ in architecture only the first one found is used.
+.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BR \-t ", " \-\-type " \fItype\fP"
+Scan for *.\fItype\fP packages, instead of *.deb.
+.TP
+.BR \-e ", " \-\-extra\-override " \fIfile\fP"
+Scan \fIfile\fP to find supplementary overrides (the file can be
+compressed since dpkg 1.15.5).
+See
+.BR deb\-extra\-override (5)
+for more information on its format.
+.TP
+.BR \-a ", " \-\-arch " \fIarch\fP"
+Use a pattern consisting of \fI*_all.deb\fP and \fI*_arch.deb\fP instead of
+scanning for all debs.
+.TP
+.BR \-h ", " \-\-hash " \fIhash-list\fP"
+Only generate file hashes for the comma-specified list specified
+(since dpkg 1.17.14).
+The default is to generate all currently supported hashes.
+Supported values: \fBmd5\fP, \fBsha1\fP, \fBsha256\fP.
+.TP
+.BR \-m ", " \-\-multiversion
+Include all found packages in the output.
+.TP
+.BR \-M ", " \-\-medium " \fIid-string\fP"
+Add an \fBX\-Medium\fP field containing the value \fIid-string\fP
+(since dpkg 1.15.5).
+This field is required if you want to generate \fBPackages.cd\fP files
+for use by the multicd access method of dselect.
+.TP
+.BR \-? ", " \-\-help
+Show the usage message and exit.
+.TP
+.BR \-\-version
+Show the version and exit.
+.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.TP
+.B DPKG_COLORS
+Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).
+The currently accepted values are: \fBauto\fP (default), \fBalways\fP and
+\fBnever\fP.
+.TP
+.B DPKG_NLS
+If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Language Support,
+also known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg 1.19.0).
+The accepted values are: \fB0\fP and \fB1\fP (default).
+.
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+.B dpkg\-scanpackages
+outputs the usual self-explanatory errors. It also warns about packages
+that are in the wrong subdirectory, are duplicated, have a Filename
+field in their control file, are missing from the override file, or have
+maintainer substitutions which do not take effect.
+.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.ad l
+.BR dpkg (1),
+.BR dselect (1),
+.BR deb\-override (5),
+.BR deb\-extra\-override (5),
+.BR dpkg\-scansources (1).