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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:53:52 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-07 15:53:52 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 2.23.4+deb12u1.upstream/2.23.4+deb12u1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/scripts/debsnap.1 b/scripts/debsnap.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7958e9e --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/debsnap.1 @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ +.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) +.TH DEBSNAP 1 "July 3, 2010" "Debian devscripts" "DebSnap User Manual" +.SH NAME +debsnap \- retrieve old snapshots of Debian packages + +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B debsnap +.RI [ options ] " package " [ version ] + +.B debsnap +.RB [ -h " | " \-\-help ] " " [ \-\-version ] + + +.SH DESCRIPTION +\fBdebsnap\fP is a tool to help with retrieving snapshots of old packages from +a daily archive repository. + +The only publicly available snapshot archive is currently located at +\fIhttps://snapshot.debian.org\fP + +By default, debsnap will download all the available versions for \fIpackage\fP +that are found in the snapshot archive. If a \fIversion\fP is specified, only +that particular version will be downloaded, if available. + + +.SH OPTIONS +The following options are available: + +.TP +.BI -d " destination\fR,\fP " \-\-destdir " destination" +Directory to place retrieved packages. + +.TP +.BR \-f ", " \-\-force +Force writing into an existing \fIdestination\fP. By default \fBdebsnap\fP will +insist the destination directory does not exist yet unless it is explicitly +specified to be '\fB.\fR' (the current working directory). This is to avoid files +being accidentally overwritten by what is fetched from the archive and to +provide a guarantee for other scripts that only the files fetched will be +present there upon completion. + +.TP +.BR \-v ", " \-\-verbose +Report on the \fBdebsnap\fP configuration being used and progress during the +download operation. Please always use this option when reporting bugs. + +.TP +.BR \-l ", " \-\-list +Don't download but just list versions. + +.TP +.BR \-\-binary +Download binary packages instead of source packages. + +.TP +.BR \-a ", " \-\-architecture +Specify architecture of downloaded binary packages. Implies \fB\-\-binary\fP. +This can be given multiple times in order to download binary packages for +multiple architectures. + +.TP +.B \-\-first +Specify the minimum version of a package which will be downloaded. Any +versions which compare larger than this, according to \fBdpkg\fP, will be +considered for download. May be used in combination with \fB\-\-last\fP. + +.TP +.B \-\-last +Specify the maximum version of a package which will be downloaded. Any package +versions which compare less than this, according to \fBdpkg\fP, will be +considered for download. May be used in combination with \fB\-\-first\fP. + +.TP +.BR \-h ", " \-\-help +Show a summary of these options. + +.TP +.B \-\-version +Show the version of \fBdebsnap\fP. + + +.SH CONFIGURATION OPTIONS +\fBdebsnap\fP may also be configured through the use of the following options +in the devscripts configuration files: + +.TP +.B DEBSNAP_VERBOSE +Same as the command line option \fB\-\-verbose\fP. Set to \fIyes\fP to enable. + +.TP +.B DEBSNAP_DESTDIR +Set a default path for the destination directory. If unset +\fI./source\-<package_name>\fP will be used. The command line option +\fB\-\-destdir\fP will override this. + +.TP +.B DEBSNAP_BASE_URL +The base url for the snapshots archive. + +If unset this defaults to \fIhttps://snapshot.debian.org\fP + +.SH EXIT STATUS +\fBdebsnap\fP will return an exit status of 0 if all operations succeeded, +1 if a fatal error occurred, and 2 if some packages failed to be downloaded +but operations otherwise succeeded as expected. In some cases packages may +fail to be downloaded because they are no longer available on the snapshot +mirror, so any caller should expect this may occur in normal use. + +.SH EXAMPLES +.TP +.BR "debsnap -a amd64 xterm 256-1" +Download the binary package of a specific xterm version for amd64 architecture. +.TP +.BR "debsnap -a armel xterm" +Download binary packages for all versions of xterm for armel architecture. +.TP +.BR "debsnap --binary xterm 256-1" +Download binary packages for a specific xterm version but for all architectures. +.TP +.BR "debsnap --binary xterm" +Download binary packages for all versions of xterm for all architectures. +.TP +.BR "debsnap -v --first 347-1 --last 348-2 xterm" +Download source packages for local architecture of xterm, between 347-1 and +348-2 revisions, inclusive, showing the progress when doing it. +.TP +.BR "aptitude search '~i' -F '%p %V' | while read pkg ver; do debsnap -a $(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH) -a all $pkg $ver; done" +Download binary packages of all packages that are installed on the system. + +.SH FILES +.TP +.I /etc/devscripts.conf +Global devscripts configuration options. Will override hardcoded defaults. +.TP +.I ~/.devscripts +Per\-user configuration options. Will override any global configuration. + +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR devscripts (1), +.BR devscripts.conf (5), +.BR git-debimport (1) + +.SH AUTHORS +David Paleino <dapal@debian.org> + +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright \(co 2010 David Paleino + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under +the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) +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 \fI/usr/share/common\-licenses/GPL\fP. + +.SH BUGS +.SS Reporting bugs +The program is part of the devscripts package. Please report bugs using +`\fBreportbug devscripts\fP` + |