changestool - verify, dump, modify, create or fix Debian .changes
files
changestool --help
changestool [ options ] .changes-filename
command [ per-command-arguments ]
changestool is a little program to operate on Debian .changes
files, as they are produced by dpkg-genchanges(1) and used to feed
built Debian packages into Debian repository managers like
reprepro(1) or dak.
changestool bloat.changes setdistribution
local
will modify the Distribution: header inside bloat.changes to say
local instead of what was there before.
changestool reprepro_1.2.0-1.local_sparc.changes
includeallsources
will modify the given file to also list .orig.tar.gz it does not list
because you forgot to build it with dpkg-buildpackage -sa.
changestool blafasel_1.0_abacus.changes
updatechecksums
will update the md5sums to those of the files referenced by this file. (So one
can do quick'n'dirty corrections to them before uploading to your private
package repository)
changestool --create test.changes add bla_1-1.dsc
bla_1-1_abacus.deb
will add the specified files (format detected by filename, use adddeb
or adddsc if you know it). If the file test.changes does not
exist yet, a minimal one will be generated. Though that might be too minimal
for most direct uses.
Options can be specified before the command. Each affects a
different subset of commands and is ignored by other commands.
- -h --help
- Displays a short list of options and commands with description.
- -o --outputdir
dir
- Not yet implemented.
- -s --searchpath
path
- A colon-separated list of directories to search for files if they are not
found in the directory of the .changes file.
- --create
- Flag for the commands starting with add to create the
.changes file if it does not yet exists.
- --create-with-all-fields
- Flag for the commands starting with add to create the
.changes file if it does not yet exists. Unlike --create,
this creates more fields to make things like dupload happier. Currently
that creates fake Urgency and Changes fields.
- --unlzma
command
- External uncompressor used to uncompress lzma files to look into
.diff.lzma, .tar.lzma or .tar.lzma within .debs.
- --unxz
command
- External uncompressor used to uncompress xz files to look into .diff.xz,
.tar.xz or .tar.xz within .debs.
- --lunzip
command
- External uncompressor used to uncompress lzip files to look into .diff.lz,
.tar.lz or .tar.lz within .debs.
- --bunzip2
command
- External uncompressor used to uncompress bz2 when compiled without
libbz2.
- verify
- Check for inconsistencies in the specified .changes file and the
files referenced by it.
- updatechecksums
[ filename ]
- Update the checksum (md5sum and size) information within the specified
.changes file and all .dsc files referenced by it. Without
arguments, all files will be updated. To only update specific files, give
their filename (without path) as arguments.
- setdistribution
[ distributions ]
- Change the Distribution: header to list the remaining
arguments.
- includeallsources
[ filename ]
- List all files referenced by .dsc files mentioned in the
.changes file in said file. Without arguments, all missing files
will be included. To only include specific files, give their filename
(without path) as arguments.
Take a look at the description of -si, -sa and
-sd in the manpage of
dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage how to avoid to have to
do this at all.
Note that while reprepro will just ignore files listed
in a .changes file when it already has the file with the same
size and md5sum, dak might choke in that case.
- adddeb
filenames
- Add the .deb and .udeb files specified by their filenames to
the .changes file. Filenames without a slash will be searched in
the current directory, the directory the changes file resides in and in
the directories specified by the --searchpath.
- adddsc
filenames
- Add the .dsc files specified by their filenames to the
.changes file. Filenames without a slash will be searched in the
current directory, in the directory the changes file resides in and in the
directories specified by the --searchpath.
- addrawfile
filenames
- Add the files specified by their filenames to the .changes file.
Filenames without a slash will be searched in the current directory, in
the directory the changes file resides in and in the directories specified
by the --searchpath.
- add
filenames
- Behave like adddsc for filenames ending in .dsc, like
adddeb for filenames ending in .deb or .udeb, and
like addrawfile for all other filenames
- dumbremove
filenames
- Remove the specified files from the .changes file. No other fields
(Architectures, Binaries, ...) are updated and no related files is
removed. Just the given files (which must be specified without any
/) are no longer listen in the .changes file (and only no longer in
the changes file).
Report bugs or wishlist requests the Debian BTS (e.g. by using
reportbug reperepro) or directly to <brlink@debian.org>.
Copyright © 2006-2009 Bernhard R. Link
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.