coinst-upgrades - finding upgrade issues between to versions of a
Debian distribution
coinst-upgrades [options] -o file
control-file1 control-file2
coinst-upgrades takes as input two Debian control files
corresponding to two versions of a Debian repository and output a report
listing all packages that coult be installed together in the initial version
of the repository (specified by control-file1) and that can no longer
be installed together in the final version of the repository (specified by
control-file2), and explaining why they can no longer be installed
together.
If the control files are compressed, they will be automatically
uncompressed by the tool.
- --break
sets
- Specify that some packages does not have to be compatible any longer and
that the corresponding issue should be omitted from the report. The
argument sets is a comma-separated list of sets of packages. Each
set is either a list of binary package names separated by a vertical bar
symbol |, or a wildcard _ standing for any package. We explain this
option through examples. You can write --break libjpeg62-dev
to state that package libjpeg62-dev does not have to remain
installable. But it is usually better to indicate that the package should
remain installable but that it is fine if it is no longer installable with
some other packages: --break libjpeg62-dev,_. You can be
even more precise and specify that two given packages can become
incompatible, but that any other incompatibility should be reported:
--break parallel,moreutils. Finally, you can use the
vertical bar symbol to factorize several sets of packages: --break
'unoconv,python-uno|docvert-libreoffice' means that package
unoconv does not have to remain installable together with
python-uno nor docvert-libreoffice.
- --debug
name
- Activate debug option name. Use --debug help to list
available debug options.
- -help,
--help
- Print a usage message briefly summarizing the command-line options.
- -o file
- Write the report to this file.
- --popcon
file
- Use popcon data from this file to order issues.
Coinst-upgrades has been written by Jérôme
Vouillon.
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The tool Web page: <http://coinst.irill.org/upgrades>.