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diff --git a/scripts/debi.1 b/scripts/debi.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa263a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/debi.1 @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +.TH DEBI 1 "Debian Utilities" "DEBIAN" \" -*- nroff -*- +.SH NAME +debi \- install current version of generated Debian package +.SH SYNOPSIS +\fBdebi\fP [\fIoptions\fR] [\fIchanges file\fR] [\fIpackage\fR ...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fBdebi\fR figures out the current version of a package and installs +it. If a \fI.changes\fR file is specified on the command line, the +filename must end with \fI.changes\fR, as this is how the program +distinguishes it from package names. If not, then \fBdebi\fR has to +be called from within the source code directory tree. In this case, +it will look for the \fI.changes\fR file corresponding to the current +package version (by determining the name and version number from the +changelog, and the architecture in the same way as +\fBdpkg-buildpackage\fR(1) does). It then runs \fBdpkg \-i\fR on +every \fI.deb\fR archive listed in the \fI.changes\fR file to install +them, assuming that all of the \fI.deb\fR archives live in the same +directory as the \fI.changes\fR file. Note that you probably don't +want to run this program on a \fI.changes\fR file relating to a +different architecture after cross-compiling the package! +.PP +If a list of packages is given on the command line, then only those +debs with names in this list of packages will be installed. +.PP +Since installing a package requires root privileges, \fBdebi\fR will +only be useful if it is either being run as root or \fBdpkg\fR can +be run as root. +.SH "Directory name checking" +In common with several other scripts in the \fBdevscripts\fR package, +\fBdebi\fR will climb the directory tree until it finds a +\fIdebian/changelog\fR file. As a safeguard against stray files +causing potential problems, it will examine the name of the parent +directory once it finds the \fIdebian/changelog\fR file, and check +that the directory name corresponds to the package name. Precisely +how it does this is controlled by two configuration file variables +\fBDEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL\fR and \fBDEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX\fR, and +their corresponding command-line options \fB\-\-check-dirname-level\fR +and \fB\-\-check-dirname-regex\fR. +.PP +\fBDEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL\fR can take the following values: +.TP +.B 0 +Never check the directory name. +.TP +.B 1 +Only check the directory name if we have had to change directory in +our search for \fIdebian/changelog\fR. This is the default behaviour. +.TP +.B 2 +Always check the directory name. +.PP +The directory name is checked by testing whether the current directory +name (as determined by \fBpwd\fR(1)) matches the regex given by the +configuration file option \fBDEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX\fR or by the +command line option \fB\-\-check-dirname-regex\fR \fIregex\fR. Here +\fIregex\fR is a Perl regex (see \fBperlre\fR(3perl)), which will be +anchored at the beginning and the end. If \fIregex\fR contains a '/', +then it must match the full directory path. If not, then it must +match the full directory name. If \fIregex\fR contains the string +\'PACKAGE', this will be replaced by the source package name, as +determined from the changelog. The default value for the regex is: +\'PACKAGE(-.+)?', thus matching directory names such as PACKAGE and +PACKAGE-version. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +\fB\-a\fIdebian-architecture\fR, \fB\-t\fIGNU-system-type\fR +See \fBdpkg-architecture\fR(1) for a description of these options. +They affect the search for the \fI.changes\fR file. They are provided +to mimic the behaviour of \fBdpkg-buildpackage\fR when determining the +name of the \fI.changes\fR file. +.TP +\fB\-\-debs\-dir\fR \fIdirectory\fR +Look for the \fI.changes\fR and \fI.deb\fR files in \fIdirectory\fR +instead of the parent of the source directory. This should +either be an absolute path or relative to the top of the source +directory. +.TP +.BR \-m ", " \-\-multi +Search for a multiarch \fI.changes\fR file, as created by \fBdpkg-cross\fR. +.TP +.BR \-u ", " \-\-upgrade +Only upgrade packages already installed on the system, rather than +installing all packages listed in the \fI.changes\fR file. +Useful for multi-binary packages when you don't want to have all the +binaries installed at once. +.TP +\fB\-\-check-dirname-level\fR \fIN\fR +See the above section \fBDirectory name checking\fR for an explanation of +this option. +.TP +\fB\-\-check-dirname-regex\fR \fIregex\fR +See the above section \fBDirectory name checking\fR for an explanation of +this option. +.TP +\fB\-\-with-depends\fR +Attempt to satisfy the \fIDepends\fR of a package when installing it. +.TP +\fB\-\-tool\fR \fItool\fR +Use the specified \fItool\fR for installing the dependencies of the package(s) to be +installed. By default, \fBapt-get\fR is used. +.TP +\fB\-\-no-conf\fR, \fB\-\-noconf\fR +Do not read any configuration files. This can only be used as the +first option given on the command-line. +.TP +\fB\-\-help\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR +Show help message and version information respectively. +.SH "CONFIGURATION VARIABLES" +The two configuration files \fI/etc/devscripts.conf\fR and +\fI~/.devscripts\fR 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: +.TP +.B DEBRELEASE_DEBS_DIR +This specifies the directory in which to look for the \fI.changes\fR +and \fI.deb\fR files, and is either an absolute path or relative to +the top of the source tree. This corresponds to the +\fB\-\-debs\-dir\fR command line option. This directive could be +used, for example, if you always use \fBpbuilder\fR or +\fBsvn-buildpackage\fR to build your packages. Note that it also +affects \fBdebrelease\fR(1) in the same way, hence the strange name of +the option. +.TP +.BR DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_LEVEL ", " DEVSCRIPTS_CHECK_DIRNAME_REGEX +See the above section \fBDirectory name checking\fR for an explanation of +these variables. Note that these are package-wide configuration +variables, and will therefore affect all \fBdevscripts\fR scripts +which check their value, as described in their respective manpages and +in \fBdevscripts.conf\fR(5). +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR devscripts.conf (5) +.SH AUTHOR +\fBdebi\fR was originally written by Christoph Lameter +<clameter@debian.org>. The now-defunct script \fBdebit\fR was +originally written by James R. Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>. They +have been moulded into one script together with \fBdebc\fR(1) and +parts extensively modified by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>. |