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SYNOPSIS
       reprepro --help

       reprepro [ options ] command [ per-command-arguments ]

DESCRIPTION
       reprepro is a tool to manage a repository  of  Debian  packages  (.deb,
       .udeb,  .dsc,  ...).  It stores files either being injected manually or
       downloaded from some other repository (partially) mirrored into a pool/
       hierarchy.   Managed  packages  and  checksums of files are stored in a
       libdb4.3 database (or libdb4.4 or libdb3, depending what  reprepro  was
       compiled  with),  so no database server is needed.  Checking signatures
       of mirrored repositories and creating signatures of the generated Pack-
       age indices is supported.

       WARNING: Some functions are still quite experimental and not very heav-
       ily tested. Be careful.

       Former working title of this program was mirrorer.

GLOBAL OPTIONS
       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.

       -v, -V, --verbose
              Be more verbose. Can be applied multiple times. One uppercase -V
              counts as five lowercase -v.

       --silent
              Be less verbose. Can be applied multiple times. One -v  and  one
              -s cancel each other out.

       -f, --force
              This option is ignored, as it no longer exists.

       -b, --basedir basedir
              Sets the base-dir all other default directories are relative to.
              If none is supplied and the REPREPRO_BASE_DIR environment  vari-
              able is not set either, the current directory will be used.

       --outdir outdir
              Sets  the  base-dir  of the repository to manage, i.e. where the
              pool/ subdirectory resides. And in which the dists/ directory is
              placed by default.  If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to
              basedir.

              The default for this is basedir.

       --confdir confdir

              If none is given, +o/dists (i.e. outdir/dists) is used.

              Note: apt has dists hard-coded in it, so  this  is  mostly  only
              useful  for  testing  or  when  your  webserver pretends another
              directory structure than your physical layout.

              Warning: Beware when changing this forth and  back  between  two
              values not ending in the same directory.  Reprepro only looks if
              files it wants are there. If nothing of the content changed  and
              there  is a file it will not touch it, assuming it is the one it
              wrote last time, assuming any different --distdir ended  in  the
              same  directory.   So  either  clean  a directory before setting
              --distdir to it or do an export with the new one first to have a
              consistent state.

       --logdir logdir
              The  directory  where  files generated by the Log: directive are
              stored if they have no absolute path.

              If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if  start-
              ing  with  '+o/'  relative  to  outdir,  with  '+c/' relative to
              confdir.

              If none is given, +b/logs (i.e. basedir/logs) is used.

       --dbdir dbdir
              Sets the directory where reprepro keeps its databases.

              If this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if  start-
              ing  with  '+o/'  relative  to  outdir,  with  '+c/' relative to
              confdir.

              If none is given, +b/db (i.e. basedir/db) is used.

              Note: This is permanent data, no cache. One has almost to regen-
              erate the whole repository when this is lost.

       --listdir listdir
              Sets  the directory where downloads it downloads indices to when
              importing from other repositories. This is  temporary  data  and
              can be safely deleted when not in an update run.

              If  this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if start-
              ing with '+o/'  relative  to  outdir,  with  '+c/'  relative  to
              confdir.

              If none is given, +b/lists (i.e. basedir/lists) is used.

       --morguedir morguedir
              Files deleted from the pool are stored into morguedir.

              If  this starts with '+b/', it is relative to basedir, if start-
              ing with '+o/'  relative  to  outdir,  with  '+c/'  relative  to
              and/or  otherwise  only  look  at  packages  in this components,
              depending on the command in question.

              Multiple components are specified by separating them with |,  as
              in -C 'main|contrib'.

       -A, --architecture architectures
              Limit  the  specified command to this architectures only.  (i.e.
              only list such packages, only remove packages from the specified
              architectures,  or  otherwise only look at/act on this architec-
              tures depending on the specific command).

              Multiple architectures are specified by separating them with  |,
              as in -A 'sparc|i386'.

              Note  that  architecture  all  packages  can be included to each
              architecture but are then handled  separately.   Thus  using  -A
              correctly  allows  to have different versions of an architecture
              all package in different architectures of the same distribution.

       -T, --type dsc|deb|udeb
              Limit the specified command to this  packagetypes  only.   (i.e.
              only list such packages, only remove such packages, only include
              such packages, ...)

       -S, --section section
              Overrides the section of  inclusions.  (Also  override  possible
              override files)

       -P, --priority priority
              Overrides  the  priority  of inclusions. (Also override possible
              override files)

       --export=(never|changed|lookedat|force)
              This option specify whether and how the high level actions (e.g.
              install,  update, pull, delete) should export the index files of
              the distributions they work with.

       --export=normal (default till 3.0.0)
              --export=lookedat (alternative new name  since  3.0.1)  In  this
              mode  every  distribution  the  action handled will be exported,
              unless there was an error possibly corrupting it.
              Note that only missing files and files  whose  intended  content
              changed between before and after the action will be written.  To
              get a guaranteed current export, use the export action.

       --export=changed (default since 3.0.1)
              In  this  mode  every  distribution  actually  changed  will  be
              exported,  unless  there  was  an  error possibly corrupting it.
              (i.e. if nothing changed, not even missing files  will  be  cre-
              ated.)
              Note  that  only  missing files and files whose intended content
              changed between before and after the action will be written.  To
              get a guaranteed current export, use the export action.
              Ignore errors of type what. See the section ERROR  IGNORING  for
              possible values.

       --nolistsdownload
              When  running  update,  checkupdate or predelete do not download
              any Release or index files.  This is hardly useful  except  when
              you  just  run  one of those command for the same distributions.
              And even then reprepro is usually good in not downloading except
              Release and Release.gpg files again.

       --nothingiserror
              If nothing was done, return with exitcode 1 instead of the usual
              0.

              Note that "nothing was done" means the primary  purpose  of  the
              action in question.  Auxillary actions (opening and closeing the
              database, exporting missing files with  --export=lookedat,  ...)
              usually  do  not  count.   Also  note that this is not very well
              tested.  If you find an action that claims to  have  done  some-
              thing in some cases where you think it should not, please let me
              know.

       --keeptemporaries
              Do not delete temporary .new files when exporting a distribution
              fails.  (reprepro first create .new files in the dists directory
              and only if everything is generated,  all  files  are  put  into
              their  final place at once.  If this option is not specified and
              something fails, all are deleted to keep dists clean).

       --keepunreferencedfiles
              Do not delete files that are no longer used because the  package
              they  are from is deleted/replaced with a newer version from the
              last distribution it was in.

       --keepunusednewfiles
              The  include,  includedsc,  includedeb  and  processincoming  by
              default  delete  any  file  they  added  to the pool that is not
              marked used at the end of the operation.  While this  keeps  the
              pool  clean and allows changing before trying to add again, this
              needs copying and checksum calculation every time one  tries  to
              add a file.

       --keepdirectories
              Do  not  try to rmdir parent directories after files or directo-
              ries have been removed from them.  (Do this if your  directories
              have  special  permissions  you  want  keep,  do  not want to be
              pestered with warnings about errors to remove them,  or  have  a
              buggy rmdir call deleting non-empty directories.)

       --keeptemporaries
              If an export of an distribution fails, this option causes repre-
              pro to not delete the temporary .new files in the dists/  direc-
              tory, so one can look at the partial result.

              If  you changed a script to preprocess downloaded index files or
              changed a Listfilter, you most likely want to call reprepro with
              --noskipold.

       --waitforlock count
              If  there  is a lockfile indicating another instance of reprepro
              is currently using the database, retry count times after waiting
              for  10  seconds each time.  The default is 0 and means to error
              out instantly.

       --spacecheck full|none
              The default is full:
              In the update commands, check for every to  be  downloaded  file
              which filesystem it is on and how much space is left.
              To disable this behaviour, use none.

       --dbsafetymargin bytes-count
              If  checking  for  free  space,  reserve byte-count bytes on the
              filesystem  containing  the  db/  directory.   The  default   is
              104857600  (i.e.  100MB), which is quite large.  But as there is
              no way to know in advance how large the databases will grow  and
              libdb  is  extremely  touchy in that regard, lower only when you
              know what you do.

       --safetymargin bytes-count
              If checking for free space, reserve byte-count bytes on filesys-
              tems  not  containing the db/ directory.  The default is 1048576
              (i.e. 1MB).

       --noguessgpgtty
              Don't set the environment variable GPG_TTY, even when it is  not
              set,  stdin  is  terminal and /proc/self/fd/0 is a readable sym-
              bolic link.

       --gnupghome
              Set the GNUPGHOME evnironment variable to the given directory as
              argument  to this option.  And your gpg will most likely use the
              content of this variable instead of "~/.gnupg".  Take a look  at
              gpg(1)  to  be sure.  this option in the command line is usually
              not very useful, as it is possible to set the environment  vari-
              able  directly.  Its main reason for existance is that it can be
              used in conf/options.

       --gunzip gz-uncompressor
              While reprepro links against libz, it will look for the  program
              given  with  this  option  (or gunzip if not given) and use that
              when uncompressing index files  while  downloading  from  remote
              repositories.  (So that downloading and uncompression can happen
              at the same time).  If the program is not found or is NONE (all-
              uppercase)  then  uncompressing  will  always  be done using the
              built in uncompression method.  The program has  to  accept  the
              compressed  file  as  stdin and write the uncompressed file into
              stdout.

              program will be used.  The default value is unlzma.  If the pro-
              gram  is not found or is NONE (all-uppercase) then uncompressing
              lzma files will not be possible.  The program has to accept  the
              compressed  file  as  stdin and write the uncompressed file into
              stdout.

       --unxz xz-uncompressor
              When trying to uncompress or read xz compressed files, this pro-
              gram  will  be used.  The default value is unxz.  If the program
              is not found or is NONE (all-uppercase)  then  uncompressing  xz
              files  will not be possible.  The program has to accept the com-
              pressed file as stdin and write the uncompressed file into  std-
              out.

       --list-max count
              Limits  the  output  of  list, listmatched and listfilter to the
              first count results.  The default is 0, which means unlimited.

       --list-skip count
              Omitts the first count results from the output  of  list,  list-
              matched and listfilter.

       --list-format format
              Set  the  output format of list, listmatched and listfilter com-
              mands.  The format  is  similar  to  dpkg-query's  --showformat:
              fields  are  specified  as  ${fieldname} or ${fieldname;length}.
              Zero length or no length means unlimited.  Positive numbers mean
              fill with spaces right, negative fill with spaces left.

              \n,  \r,  \t,  \0  are  new-line, carriage-return, tabulator and
              zero-byte.  Backslash (\) can be used to escape  every  non-let-
              ter-or-digit.

              The  special field names $identifier, $architecture, $component,
              $type, $codename denote where the package was found.

              When --list-format is not given or NONE,  then  the  default  is
              equivalent to
              ${$identifier} ${package} ${version}\n.

              Escaping  digits or letters not in above list, using dollars not
              escaped outside specified constructs, or  any  field  names  not
              listed  as  special  and not consisting entirely out of letters,
              digits and minus signs have undefined behaviour and might change
              meaning without any further notice.

       --show-percent
              When  downloading  packages, show each completed percent of com-
              pleted package downloads together with the  size  of  completely
              downloaded  packages.  (Repeating this option increases the fre-
              quency of this output).

COMMANDS
       export [ codenames ]
              would be linked from the same suite name, or if the link already
              exists (though when --delete is given  it  will  delete  already
              existing symlinks)

       list codename [ packagename ]
              List  all  packages  (source and binary, except when -T or -A is
              given) with the given name in all components (except when -C  is
              given) and architectures (except when -A is given) of the speci-
              fied distribution.  If no package name  is  given,  list  every-
              thing.  The format of the output can be changed with --list-for-
              mat.  To only get  parts  of  the  result,  use  --list-max  and
              --list-skip.

       listmatched codename glob
              as  list,  but  does not list a single package, but all packages
              matching the given shell-like glob.  (i.e. *, ? and [chars]  are
              allowed).

              Examples:

              reprepro  -b  .  listmatched  test2 'linux-*' lists all packages
              starting with linux-.


       listfilter codename condition
              as list, but does not list a single package,  but  all  packages
              matching the given condition.

              The  format  of the formulas is those of the dependency lines in
              Debian packages' control files with some extras.  That  means  a
              formula  consists  of  names of fields with a possible condition
              for its content in parentheses.  These  atoms  can  be  combined
              with  an  exclamation  mark '!' (meaning not), a pipe symbol '|'
              (meaning or) and a coma ',' (meaning and).  Additionally  paren-
              theses  can  be used to change binding (otherwise '!' binds more
              than '|' than ',').

              The values given in the search expression are directly alphabet-
              ically  compared  to  the  headers in the respective index file.
              That means that each part Fieldname (cmp value) of  the  formula
              will  be true for exactly those package that have in the Package
              or Sources file a line starting with fieldname and  a  value  is
              alphabetically cmp to value.

              Additionally  since reprepro 3.11.0, '%' can be used as compari-
              son operator, denoting matching a name with shell like  wildcard
              (with '*', '?' and '[..]').

              The  special  field names starting with '$' have special meaning
              (available since 3.11.1):

              $Version

              The version of the package, comparison  is  not  alphabetically,
              The  architecture  the  package  is in (listfilter) or to be put
              into.

              $Component

              The component the package is in (listfilter) or to be put into.

              $Packagetype

              The packagetype of the package.

              Examples:

              reprepro -b . listfilter test2 'Section (==  admin)'  will  list
              all  packages in distribution test2 with a Section field and the
              value of that field being admin.

              reprepro -b . -T deb listfilter test2  'Source  (==  blub)  |  (
              !Source  , Package (== blub) )' will find all .deb Packages with
              either a Source field blub or no  Source  field  and  a  Package
              field blub.  (That means all package generated by a source pack-
              age blub, except those also specifying a version number with its
              Source).

              reprepro  -b  . -T deb listfilter test2 '$Source (==blub) is the
              better way to do this (but only available since 3.11.1).

              reprepro -b . listfilter test2  '$PackageType  (==deb),  $Source
              (==blub) is another (less efficient) way.

              reprepro  -b . listfilter test2 'Package (% linux-*-2.6*)' lists
              all packages with names starting with linux- and later having an
              -2.6.

       ls package-name
              List  the versions of the the specified package in all distribu-
              tions.

       remove codename package-names
              Delete all packages in the  specified  distribution,  that  have
              package name listed as argument.  (i.e. remove all packages list
              with the same arguments and options would list, except  that  an
              empty package list is not allowed.)

              Note that like any other operation removing or replacing a pack-
              age, the old package's files are unreferenced and  thus  may  be
              automatically  deleted  if  this was their last reference and no
              --keepunreferencedfiles specified.

       removematched codename glob
              Delete all packages listmatched with the  same  arguments  would
              list.

       removefilter codename condition
       update [ codenames ]
              Sync the specified distributions (all if none given)  as  speci-
              fied  in the config with their upstreams. See the description of
              conf/updates below.

       checkupdate [ codenames ]
              Same like update, but will show what it will change  instead  of
              actually changing it.

       dumpupdate [ codenames ]
              Same  like  checkupdate,  but less suiteable for humans and more
              suitable for computers.

       predelete [ codenames ]
              This will determine which packages  a  update  would  delete  or
              replace  and  remove  those  packages.   This  can be useful for
              reducing space needed while upgrading, but there  will  be  some
              time  where packages are vanished from the lists so clients will
              mark them as obsolete.  Plus if you cannot  download  a  updated
              package in the (hopefully) following update run, you will end up
              with no package at all instead of an old one.   This  will  also
              blow  up  .diff  files  if  you are using the tiffany example or
              something similar.  So be careful when using this option or bet-
              ter get some more space so that update works.

       cleanlists
              Delete  all files in listdir (default basedir/lists) that do not
              belong to any update rule for any distribution.  I.e. all  files
              are deleted in that directory that no update command in the cur-
              rent configuration can use.  (The files are usually left  there,
              so  if  they  are needed again they do not need to be downloaded
              again. Though in many easy cases not even those  files  will  be
              needed.)

       pull [ codenames ]
              pull  in newer packages into the specified distributions (all if
              none given) from other distributions  in  the  same  repository.
              See the description of conf/pulls below.

       checkpull [ codenames ]
              Same  like  pull,  but  will show what it will change instead of
              actually changing it.

       dumppull [ codenames ]
              Same like checkpull, but less  suiteable  for  humans  and  more
              suitable for computers.

       includedeb codename .deb-filename
              Include  the given binary Debian package (.deb) in the specified
              distribution, applying override  information  and  guessing  all
              values not given and guessable.

       includeudeb codename .deb-filename
              Same like includedeb, but for .udeb files.

       include codename .changes-filename
              Include in the specified distribution  all  packages  found  and
              suitable  in  the  .changes  file, applying override information
              guessing all values not given and guessable.

       processincoming rulesetname [.changes-file]
              Scan an incoming directory and process the .changes files  found
              there.  If a filename is supplied, processing is limited to that
              file.  rulesetname identifies which  rule-set  in  conf/incoming
              determines which incoming directory to use and in what distribu-
              tions to allow packages into.  See the section about  this  file
              for more information.

       check [ codenames ]
              Check  if  all  packages in the specified distributions have all
              files needed properly registered.

       checkpool [ fast ]
              Check if all files believed to be in the pool are actually still
              there  and  have the known md5sum. When fast is specified md5sum
              is not checked.

       collectnewchecksums
              Calculate all supported checksums for all  files  in  the  pool.
              (Versions prior to 3.3 did only store md5sums, 3.3 added sha1).

       translatelegacychecksums
              Remove  the  legacy files.db file after making sure all informa-
              tion is also found in the new checksums.db file.  (Alternatively
              you  can  call  collecnewchecksums  and  remove the file on your
              own.)

       rereference
              Forget which files are needed and recollect this information.

       dumpreferences
              Print out which files are marked to be needed by whom.

       dumpunreferenced
              Print a list of all filed believed to be in the pool,  that  are
              not known to be needed.

       deleteunreferenced
              Remove  all known files (and forget them) in the pool not marked
              to be needed by anything.

       reoverride [ codenames ]
              Reapply the override files to the given distributions  (Or  only
              parts thereof given by -Af,-C or -T).

              Note:  only  the control information is changed. Changing a sec-
              tion to a value,  that  would  cause  another  component  to  be
              guessed, will not cause any warning.

              (This  behaviour,  though  a bit longsome, keeps even files only
              kept because of tracking mode keep and files not otherwise  used
              but kept due to includechanges or its relatives.  Before version
              3.0.0 such files were lost by running retrack).

       removealltracks [ codenames ]
              Removes all source package tracking information  for  the  given
              distributions.

       removetrack   codename   sourcename   version
              Remove  the  trackingdata  of the given version of a given sour-
              cepackage from a given distribution. This also removes the  ref-
              erences for all used files.

       tidytracks [ codenames ]
              Check all source package tracking information for the given dis-
              tributions for files no longer to keep.

       copy destination-codename source-codename packages...
              Copy the given packages from one distribution to  another.   The
              packages  are  copied verbatim, no override files are consulted.
              Only components and architectures present in the source  distri-
              bution are copied.

       copysrc destination-codename source-codename source-package [versions]
              look at each package (where package means, as usual, every pack-
              age be it dsc, deb or udeb) in  the  distribution  specified  by
              source-codename  and  identifies the relevant source package for
              each.  All packages matching the specified  source-package  name
              (and  any  version  if specified) are copied to the destination-
              codename distribution.  The packages  are  copied  verbatim,  no
              override files are consulted.  Only components and architectures
              present in the source distribution are copied.

       copymatched destination-codename source-codename glob
              Copy packages matching the given glob (see listmatched).

              The packages are copied verbatim, no  override  files  are  con-
              sulted.  Only components and architectures present in the source
              distribution are copied.

       copyfilter destination-codename source-codename formula
              Copy packages matching the given formula (see listfilter).  (all
              versions  if  no version is specified).  The packages are copied
              verbatim, no override files are consulted.  Only components  and
              architectures present in the source distribution are copied.

       restore codename snapshot packages...

       restoresrc codename snapshot source-epackage [versions]

       restorefilter destination-codename snapshot formula
              Like  the  copy commands, but do not copy from another distribu-

       gensnapshot   codename   directoryname
              Generate a snapshot of the distribution specified by codename in
              the  directory conf/codename/snapshots/directoryname/ and refer-
              ence all needed files in the pool as needed by that.  No Content
              files are generated and no export hooks are run.

              Note  that  there  is  currently no automated way to remove that
              snapshot again (not even clearvanished will  unlock  the  refer-
              enced  files  after the distribution itself vanished).  You will
              have to remove the  directory  yourself  and  tell  reprepro  to
              _removereferences s=codename=directoryname before deleteunrefer-
              enced will delete the files from the pool locked by this.

              To access such a snapshot with apt, add something like the  fol-
              lowing to your sources.list file:
              deb method://as/without/snapshot codename/snapshots/name main

       rerunnotifiers [ codenames ]
              Run  all  external  scripts specified in the Log: options of the
              specified distributions.

       build-needing codename architecture [ glob ]
              List source packages (matching glob) that likely need a build on
              the given architecture.

              List  all  source  package  in  the given distribution without a
              binary package of the given architecture built from that version
              of  the  source,  without  a .changes or .log file for the given
              architecture, with an Architecture field including  any  or  the
              architecture  and  at  least one package in the Binary field not
              yet available.

       translatefilelists
              Translate the file list cache within  db/contents.cache.db  into
              the new format used since reprepro 3.0.0.

              Make  sure  you  have  at least half of the space of the current
              db/contents.cache.db file size available in that partition.

       flood distribution [architecture]
              For each architecture of distribution or for the  one  specified
              add  architecture  all  packages from another architectures (but
              the same component or packagetype) under  the  following  condi-
              tions:

               Packages are only upgraded, never downgraded.
               If  there  is a package not being architecture all, then archi-
              tecture all packages of the same source  from  the  same  source
              version  are  prefered  over those that have no such binary sib-
              ling.
               Otherwise the package with the highest version wins.

              You can restrict with architectures are looked for  architecture

   internal commands
       These are hopefully never needed, but allow manual intervention.  WARN-
       ING: Is is quite easy to get  into  an  inconsistent  and/or  unfixable
       state.

       _detect [ filekeys ]
              Look  for  the files, which filekey is given as argument or as a
              line of the input (when run without  arguments),  and  calculate
              their md5sum and add them to the list of known files.  (Warning:
              this is a low level operation, no input validation or normaliza-
              tion is done.)

       _forget [ filekeys ]
              Like _detect but remove the given filekey from the list of known
              files.  (Warning: this is a low level operation, no input  vali-
              dation or normalization is done.)

       _listmd5sums
              Print a list of all known files and their md5sums.

       _listchecksums
              Print a list of all known files and their recorded checksums.

       _addmd5sums
              alias for the newer

       _addchecksums
              Add  information  of known files (without any check done) in the
              strict format of _listchecksums output (i.e. don't dare to use a
              single space anywhere more than needed).

       _dumpcontents identifier
              Printout all the stored information of the specified part of the
              repository. (Or in other words, the  content  the  corresponding
              Packages or Sources file would get)

       _addreference filekey identifier
              Manually mark filekey to be needed by identifier

       _removereferences identifier
              Remove all references what is needed by identifier.

       __extractcontrol .deb-filename
              Look  what  reprepro  believes  to be the content of the control
              file of the specified .deb-file.

       __extractfilelist .deb-filename
              Look what reprepro believes to be the list of files of the spec-
              ified .deb-file.

       _fakeemptyfilelist filekey
              Insert an empty filelist for filekey. This is a evil hack around
              broken .deb files that cannot be read by reprepro.

       _listconfidentifiers identifier [ distributions... ]
              Print  -  one  per  line  -  all  identifiers of subdatabases as
              derived from the configuration.  If a list of  distributions  is
              given, only identifiers of those are printed.


       _listdbidentifiers identifier [ distributions... ]
              Print  -  one  per line - all identifiers of subdatabases in the
              current database.  This will be a subset of the ones printed  by
              _listconfidentifiersP  or  most  commands but clearvanished will
              refuse to run, and depending on the database compatibility  ver-
              sion,  will include all those if reprepro was run since the con-
              fig was last changed.


CONFIG FILES
       reprepo uses three config files, which are searched  in  the  directory
       specified with --confdir or in the conf/ subdirectory of the basedir.

       If  a file options exists, it is parsed line by line.  Each line can be
       the long name of a command line option (without the --) plus  an  argu-
       ment,  where  possible.  Those are handled as if they were command line
       options given before (and thus lower priority than) any  other  command
       line option.  (and also lower priority than any environment variable).

       To  allow  command  line options to override options file options, most
       boolean options also have a corresponding form starting with --no.

       (The only exception is when the path to look for config files  changes,
       the options file will only opened once and of course before any options
       within the options file are parsed.)

       The file distributions is always needed and  describes  what  distribu-
       tions  to manage, while updates is only needed when syncing with exter-
       nal repositories and pulls is only needed when syncing  with  reposito-
       ries in the same reprepro database.

       The  last  three are in the format control files in Debian are in, i.e.
       paragraphs separated by empty lines consisting of  fields.  Each  field
       consists  of  a fieldname, followed by a colon, possible whitespace and
       the data. A field ends with a newline not followed by a space or tab.

       Lines starting with # as first character are ignored,  while  in  other
       lines  the # character and everything after it till the newline charac-
       ter are ignored.

   conf/distributions
       Codename
              This required field is the unique identifier of  a  distribution
              and  used as directory name within dists/ It is also copied into
              the Release files.

              Note that this name is not supposed to change.  You most  likely
              never  ever  want  a name like testing or stable here (those are
              the  end of the Codename and Suite fields in that file.  Also if
              a component starts with it, its directory in the  dists  dir  is
              shortened by this.
              So
               Codename: bla/updates
               Suite: foo/updates
               FakeComponentPrefix: updates
               Components: main bad
               will create a Release file with
               Codename: bla
               Suite: foo
               Components: updates/main updates/bad
               in it, but otherwise nothing is changed, while
               Codename: bla/updates
               Suite: foo/updates
               FakeComponentPrefix: updates
               Components: updates/main updates/bad
               will also create a Release file with
               Codename: bla
               Suite: foo
               Components: updates/main updates/bad
               but   the   packages   will   actually  be  in  the  components
              updates/main and updates/bad, most likely causing the same  file
              using duplicate storage space.

              This makes the distribution look more like Debian's security ar-
              chive, thus work around  problems  with  apt's  workarounds  for
              that.

       AlsoAcceptFor
              A  list  of distribution names.  When a .changes file is told to
              be included into this distribution with the include command  and
              the  distribution  header  of that file is neither the codename,
              nor the suite name, nor any name from the list, a wrongdistribu-
              tion error is generated.  The process_incoming command will also
              use this field, see the description of Allow  and  Default  from
              the conf/incoming file for more information.

       Version
              This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.

       Origin This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.

       Label  This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.

       NotAutomatic
              This  optional  field  is  simply copied into the Release files.
              (The value is handled as arbitrary string, though  anything  but
              yes does make much sense right now.)

       Description
              This optional field is simply copied into the Release files.

       Architectures
              GUESSING for rules which component packages are included into by
              default. This will also be copied into the Release files.

       UDebComponents
              Components   with  a  debian-installer  subhierarchy  containing
              .udebs.  (E.g. simply "main")

       Update When this field is present, it describes which update rules  are
              used for this distribution. There also can be a magic rule minus
              ("-"), see below.

       Pull   When this field is present, it describes which  pull  rules  are
              used  for  this distribution.  Pull rules are like Update rules,
              but get their stuff from other distributions and not from exter-
              nal sources.  See the description for conf/pulls.

       SignWith
              When  this  field  is present, a Release.gpg file will be gener-
              ated.  If the value is "yes" or "default", the  default  key  of
              gpg  is  used.  Otherwise the value will be given to libgpgme to
              determine to key to use.

              If there are problems with signing, you can try
              gpg --list-secret-keys value
              to see how gpg could interprete the value.  If that command does
              not list any keys or multiple ones, try to find some other value
              (like the keyid), that gpg can  more  easily  associate  with  a
              unique key.

              If  this  key has a passphrase, you need to use gpg-agent or the
              insecure option --ask-passphrase.

       DebOverride
              When this field is present, it describes the override file  used
              when including .deb files.

       UDebOverride
              When  this field is present, it describes the override file used
              when including .udeb files.

       DscOverride
              When this field is present, it describes the override file  used
              when including .dsc files.

       DebIndices, UDebIndices, DscIndices
              Choose  what  kind  of  Index  files  to  export. The first part
              describes what the Index file shall be called.  The second argu-
              ment determines the name of a Release file to generate or not to
              generate if missing.  Then at least one of ".", ".gz"  or ".bz2"
              specifying whether to generate uncompressed output, gzipped out-
              put, bzip2ed output or any combination.  (bzip2 is  only  avail-
              able when compiled with bzip2 support, so it might not be avail-
              able when you compiled it on your  own).   If  an  argument  not
              starting  with  dot follows, it will be executed after all index
              extract file lists.  As this did not work and was no longer eas-
              ily  possible  after  some factorisation, this is no longer sup-
              ported.

              The arguments of  this  field  is  a  space  separated  list  of
              options.   If  there  is a udebs keyword, .udebs are also listed
              (in a file called uContents-architecture.)  If there is a nodebs
              keyword,  .debs  are  not  listed.   (Only  useful together with
              udebs) If there is at least one of the keywords  .,  .gz  and/or
              .bz2,  the  Contents  files  are  written  uncompressed, gzipped
              and/or bzip2ed instead of only gzipped.

       ContentsArchitectures
              Limit generation of Contents files to the  architectures  given.
              If this field is not there, all architectures are processed.  An
              empty field means no architectures are processed, thus not  very
              useful.

       ContentsComponents
              Limit  what components are processed for the Contents-arch files
              to the components given.  If this field is not there, all compo-
              nents  are  processed.   An empty field is equivalent to specify
              nodebs in the Contents field, while a non-empty field  overrides
              a nodebs there.

       ContentsUComponents
              Limit  what  components are processed for the uContents files to
              the components given.  If this field is not there and  there  is
              the  udebs keyword in the Contents field, all .udebs of all com-
              ponents are put in the uContents.arch files.  If this  field  is
              not  there  and there is no udebs keyword in the Contents field,
              no uContents-arch files  are  generated  at  all.   A  non-empty
              fields implies generation of uContents-arch files (just like the
              udebs keyword in the Contents field), while an empty one  causes
              no uContents-arch files to be generated.

       Uploaders
              Specified  a  file  (relative  to confdir if not starting with a
              slash) to specify who is allowed to upload packages.  With  this
              there   are  no  limits,  and  this  file  can  be  ignored  via
              --ignore=uploaders.  See the section UPLOADERS FILES below.

       Tracking
              Enable the (experimental)  tracking  of  source  packages.   The
              argument list needs to contain exactly one of the following:
              keep  Keeps  all  files of a given source package, until that is
              deleted explicitly via removetrack. This is currently  the  only
              possibility  to keep older packages around when all indices con-
              tain newer files.
              all Keep all files belonging to a given source package until the
              last file of it is no longer used within that distribution.
              minimal Remove files no longer included in the tracked distribu-
              tion.  (Remove changes, logs and  includebyhand  files  once  no
              file is in any part of the distribution).

       Log    Specify a file to log additions and removals of  this  distribu-
              tion  into  and/or  external  scripts  to call when something is
              added or removed.  The rest of the Log: line  is  the  filename,
              every  following  line  (as  usual,  have to begin with a single
              space) the name of a script to call.  The name of the script may
              be  preceded  with  options  of  the form --type=(dsc|deb|udeb),
              --architecture=name or --component=name to only call the  script
              for  some  parts  of  the distribution.  An script with argument
              --changes is called when a .changes file was accepted by include
              or  processincoming  (and  with  other arguments).  Both type of
              scripts can have a --via=command specified, in which case it  is
              only called when caused by reprepro command command.

              For  information  how it is called and some examples take a look
              at manual.html in reprepro's source or /usr/share/doc/reprepro/

              If the filename for the log files does not start with  a  slash,
              it  is  relative  to  the directory specified with --logdir, the
              scripts are relative to --confdir unless starting with a slash.

       ValidFor
              If this field exists, an Valid-Until field is put into generated
              Release  files for this distribution with an date as much in the
              future as the argument specifies.

              The argument has to be an number followed by one of the units d,
              m  or  y,  where  d  means days, m means 31 days and y means 365
              days.  So ValidFor: 1m 11 d causes the generation  of  a  Valid-
              Until:  header  in  Release  files  that points 42 days into the
              future.

       ReadOnly
              Disallow all modifications of this distribution or its directory
              in  dists/codename  (with  the exception of snapshot subdirecto-
              ries).

   conf/updates
       Name   The name of this update-upstream as it can be used in the Update
              field in conf/distributions.

       Method An    URI    as    one    could   also   give   it   apt,   e.g.
              http://ftp.debian.de/debian which is simply given to the  corre-
              sponding apt-get method. (So either apt-get has to be installed,
              or you have to point with --methoddir  to  a  place  where  such
              methods are found.

       Fallback
              (Still  experimental:) A fallback URI, where all files are tried
              that failed the first one. They are given to the same method  as
              the  previous  URI  (e.g. both http://), and the fallback-server
              must have everything at the same  place.   No  recalculation  is
              done, but single files are just retried from this location.

              Method information from the same rule.

       Suite  The  suite  to update from. If this is not present, the codename
              of the distribution using this one is used. Also "*/whatever" is
              replaced by "<codename>/whatever"

       Components
              The  components to update. Each item can be either the name of a
              component or a pair of a upstream component and a  local  compo-
              nent   separated   with   ">".   (e.g.   "main>all   contrib>all
              non-free>notall")

              If this field is not there, all components from the distribution
              to update are tried.

              An  empty  field means no source or .deb packages are updated by
              this rule, but only .udeb packages, if there are any.

              A rule might list components not available in all  distributions
              using  this  rule.  In this case unknown components are silently
              ignored.  (Unless you start reprepro with the --fast option,  it
              will  warn  about components unusable in all distributions using
              that rule. As exceptions, unusable components  called  none  are
              never  warned  about,  for  compatibility with versions prior to
              3.0.0 where and empty field had a different meaning.)

       Architectures
              The architectures to update. If omitted all from  the  distribu-
              tion  to  update  from.  (As with components, you can use ">" to
              download from one architecture and add into another  one.  (This
              only determine in which Package list they land, it neither over-
              writes the Architecture line in its description, nor the one  in
              the  filename determined from this one. In other words, it is no
              really useful without additional filtering))

       UDebComponents
              Like Components but for the udebs.

       VerifyRelease
              Download the Release.gpg file and check if it is a signature  of
              the  Releasefile with the key given here. (In the Format as "gpg
              --with-colons --list-key" prints it, i.e. the last 16 hex digits
              of the fingerprint) Multiple keys can be specified by separating
              them with a "|" sign. Then finding a signature from one  of  the
              will  suffice.   To  allow  revoked  or  expired keys, add a "!"
              behind a key.  (but to accept such  signatures,  the  appropiate
              --ignore  is also needed).  To also allow subkeys of a specified
              key, add a "+" behind a key.

       IgnoreRelease
              If this is present, no Release file will be downloaded and  thus
              the md5sums of the other index files will not be checked.

       Flat   If  this field is in an update rule, it is supposed to be a flat
               Method: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian
               Suite: etch-cran
               Flat: whatevercomponentyoudlikethepackagesin

       IgnoreHashes
              This  directive tells reprepro to not check the listed hashes in
              the downloaded Release file (and  only  in  the  Release  file).
              Possible values are currently sha1 and sha256.

              Note  that  md5  is  not  possible  as reprepro internally still
              always needs md5 hashes. Note that this does not speed  anything
              up in any measurable way. The only reason to specify this if the
              Release file of the distribution you want to mirror from uses  a
              faulty  algorithm implementation.  Otherwise you will gain noth-
              ing and only lose security but not gain speed.

       FilterFormula
              This can be a formula to specify which packages to  accept  from
              this  source.  The  format  is  misusing the parser intended for
              Dependency lines. To get  only  architecture  all  packages  use
              "architecture (== all)", to get only at least important packages
              use "priority (==required) | priority (==important)".

       FilterList
              This takes at least two arguments: The first one is the  default
              action  when  something is not found in the list, then a list of
              filenames (relative to --confdir, if not starting with a slash),
              in  the format of dpkg --get-selections and only packages listed
              in there as install or that are already  there  and  are  listed
              with  upgradeonly  will be installed. Things listed as deinstall
              or purge will ignored.  Things  listed  with  warning  are  also
              ignored,  but a warning message is printed to stderr.  A package
              being hold will not be  upgraded  but  also  not  downgraded  or
              removed   by   previous   delete  rules.   To  abort  the  whole
              upgrade/pull if a package is available, use error.

       ListHook
              If this is given, it is executed for all downloaded index  files
              with  the  downloaded  list as first and a filename that will be
              used instead of this. (e.g. "ListHook: /bin/cp" works  but  does
              nothing.)

              If  a file will be read multiple times, it is processed multiple
              times, with the environment variables  REPREPRO_FILTER_CODENAME,
              REPREPRO_FILTER_PACKAGETYPE,    REPREPRO_FILTER_COMPONENT    and
              REPREPRO_FILTER_ARCHITECTURE set to the where this file will  be
              added and REPREPRO_FILTER_PATTERN to the name of the update rule
              causing it.


       ListShellHook
              This is like ListHook, but the whole argument is  given  to  the
              shell  as  argument, and the input and output file are stdin and
              stdout.
              pro will look for a useable variant of needed index files in the
              downloaded  Release  file.  (The default is .diff .xz .lzma .bz2
              .gz ., i.e.  download Packages.diff if  listed  in  the  Release
              file,  otherwise or if not useable download .xz if listed in the
              Release file and there is a way to uncompress it, then .lzma  if
              useable, then .bz2 if useable, then .gz and then uncompressed).

              Together  with IgnoreRelease reprepro will download the first in
              this list that could be unpacked.

              Note there is no way to see if an uncompressed  variant  of  the
              file is available (as the Release file always lists their check-
              sums, even if not there), so putting '.'  anywhere  but  as  the
              last  argument  can mean trying to download a file that does not
              exist.

   conf/pulls
       This file contains the rules for pulling packages from one distribution
       to  another.   While  this can also be done with update rules using the
       file or copy method and using the exported indices of that  other  dis-
       tribution,  this  way is faster.  It also ensures the current files are
       used and no copies are made.  (This also leads to the  limitation  that
       pulling from one component to another is not possible.)

       Each rule consists out of the following fields:

       Name   The  name  of this pull rule as it can be used in the Pull field
              in conf/distributions.

       From   The codename of the distribution to pull packages from.

       Components
              The components of the distribution to get from.

              If this field is not there, all components from the distribution
              to  update are tried.

              A  rule might list components not available in all distributions
              using this rule. In this case unknown  components  are  silently
              ignored.   (Unless you start reprepro with the --fast option, it
              will warn about components unusable in all  distributions  using
              that  rule.   As  exception, unusable components called none are
              never warned about, for compatibility  with  versions  prior  to
              3.0.0 where and empty field had a different meaning.)

       Architectures
              The  architectures to update.  If omitted all from the distribu-
              tion to pull from.  As in conf/updates, you can use ">" to down-
              load from one architecture and add into another one. (And again,
              only useful with filtering to avoid  packages  not  architecture
              all to migrate).

       UDebComponents
              Like Components but for the udebs.

       For example:
       kernel-image-2.4.31-yourorga Section protected/base
       kernel-image-2.4.31-yourorga Priority standard
       kernel-image-2.4.31-yourorga Maintainer That's me <me@localhost>
       reprepro Priority required

       All  fields of a given package will be replaced by the new value speci-
       fied in the override file.  While the  field  name  is  compared  case-
       insensitive,  it  is  copied  in  exactly the form in the override file
       there.  (Thus I suggest to keep to the exact case it is normally  found
       in  index  files  in  case  some  other tool confuses them.)  More than
       copied is the Section header (unless -S is  supplied),  which  is  also
       used  to guess the component (unless -C is there).  There is no protec-
       tion against changing headers like Package, Filename, Size  or  MD5sum,
       though  changing  these  functional  fields  may  give the most curious
       results.  (Most likely reprepro may error out in future invocations).

   conf/incoming
       Every chunk is a rule set for the process_incoming  command.   Possible
       fields are:

       Name   The  name  of the rule-set, used as argument to the scan command
              to specify to use this rule.

       IncomingDir
              The Name of the directory to scan for .changes files.

       TempDir
              A directory where the files listed  in  the  processed  .changes
              files  are copied into before they are read.  You can avoid some
              copy operatations by placing  this  directory  within  the  same
              moint point the pool hierachy is (at least partially) in.

       LogDir A  directory  where  .changes  files,  .log  files and otherwise
              unused .byhand files are stored upon procession.

       Allow  Each argument is either a pair name1>name2 or simply name  which
              is  short  for  name>name.  Each name2 must identify a distribu-
              tion, either by being Codename, a  unique  Suite,  or  a  unique
              AlsoAcceptFor  from  conf/distributions.   Each  upload has each
              item in its Distribution: header compared  first  to  last  with
              each  name1  in  the rules and is put in the first one accepting
              this package.  e.g.:
              Allow: local unstable>sid
              or
              Allow: stable>security-updates stable>proposed-updates
              (Note that this makes only sense if Multiple is set to  true  or
              if  there  are people only allowed to upload to proposed-updates
              but not to security-updates).

       Default distribution
              Every upload not put into any other distribution because  of  an
              Allow argument is put into distribution if that accepts it.
              limit_arch_all
              If an upload contains binaries from some architecture and archi-
              tecture all packages, the architecture all packages are only put
              into  the  architectures within this upload.  Usefull to combine
              with the flood command.

       Permit A list of options to allow things otherwise causing errors:
              unused_files
              Do not stop with error if there are files listed in the .changes
              file if it lists files not belonging to any package in it.
              older_version
              Ignore  a  package not added because there already is a strictly
              newer version available instead of treating this as an error.

       Cleanup options
              A list of options to cause more files in the incoming  directory
              to be deleted:
              unused_files
              If  there is unused_files in Permit then also delete those files
              when the package is deleted after successful processing.
              on_deny
              If a .changes file is denied processing because of missing  sig-
              natures or allowed distributions to be put in, delete it and all
              the files it references.
              on_error
              If a .changes file causes errors while processing, delete it and
              the files it references.

              Note  that  allowing  cleanup  in publically accessible incoming
              queues allows a denial of service by sending in  .changes  files
              deleting  other  peoples files before they are completed.  Espe-
              cially when .changes files are handled directly (e.g. by  inoti-
              coming).


       MorgueDir
              If files are to be deleted by Cleanup, they are instead moved to
              a subdirectory of the directory given as value  to  this  field.
              This  directory  has to be on the same partition as the incoming
              directory and files are moved (i.e. owner  and  permission  stay
              the same) and never copied.


UPLOADERS FILES
       These files specified by the Uploaders header in the distribution defi-
       nition as explained above describe what key a .changes file  as  to  be
       signed with to be included in that distribution.

       Empty  lines  and  lines  starting with a hash are ignored, every other
       line has to be of one of this three forms:

       allow condition by anybody
              which allows everyone to upload packages matching condition,

       The only conditions currently supported are:

       *      which means any package,

       source 'name'
              which  means any package with source name.  ('*', '?' and '[..]'
              are treated as in shell wildcards).

       sections 'name'(|'name')*
              matches an upload in which each section matches one of the names
              given.  As upload conditions are checked very early, this is the
              section listed in the .changes file, not the one from the  over-
              ride  file.   (But  this might change in the future, if you have
              the need for the one or the other behavior, let me know).

       sections contain 'name'(|'name')*
              The same, but not all sections must be from the given  set,  but
              at least one source or binary package needs to have one of those
              given.

       binaries 'name'(|'name')*
              matches an upload in  which  each  binary  (type  deb  or  udeb)
              matches one of the names given.

       binaries contain 'name'(|'name')*
              again only at least one instead of all is required.

       architectures 'architecture'(|'name')*
              matches  an  upload in which each package has only architectures
              from the given set.  source and all are treated as unique archi-
              tectures.  Wildcards are not allowed.

       architectures contain 'architecture'(|'architecture')*
              again only at least one instead of all is required.

       Putting  not in front of a condition, inverses it's meaning.  For exam-
       ple
       allow not source 'r*' by anybody
       means anybody may upload packages which source name does not start with
       an 'r'.

       Multiple  conditions  can be connected with and and or, with or binding
       stronger (but both weaker than not).  That means
       allow source 'r*' and source '*xxx' or source '*o' by anybody
       is equivalent to
       allow source 'r*xxx' by anybody
       allow source 'r*o' by anybody

       (Other conditions will follow once somebody tells me what  restrictions
       are useful.  Currently planned is only something for architectures).

ERROR IGNORING
       With  --ignore  on  the  command  line or an ignore line in the options
       file, the following type of errors can be ignored:
       brokenversioncmp (hopefully never seen)
              If  comparing  old  and new version fails, assume the new one is
              newer.

       dscinbinnmu
              If a .changes file has an explicit Source version that  is  dif-
              ferent  the  to  the  version  header of the file, than reprepro
              assumes it is binary non maintainer upload (NMU).  In that case,
              source  files  are  not permitted in .changes files processed by
              include or processincoming.  Adding --ignore=dscinbinnmu  allows
              it for the include command.

       emptyfilenamepart (insecure)
              Allow  strings to be empty that are used to construct filenames.
              (like versions, architectures, ...)

       extension
              Allow to includedeb files that do not end with .deb, to  includ-
              edsc files not ending in .dsc and to include files not ending in
              .changes.

       forbiddenchar (insecure)
              Do not insist on Debian policy for package and source names  and
              versions.   Thus  allowing  all 7-bit characters but slashes (as
              they would break the  file  storage)  and  things  syntactically
              active  (spaces,  underscores  in  filenames  in .changes files,
              opening parentheses in source names  of  binary  packages).   To
              allow some 8-bit chars additionally, use 8bit additionally.

       8bit (more insecure)
              Allow 8-bit characters not looking like overlong UTF-8 sequences
              in filenames and things used as parts of filenames.   Though  it
              hopefully rejects overlong UTF-8 sequences, there might be other
              characters your filesystem  confuses  with  special  characters,
              thus   creating   filenames   possibly   equivalent   to   /mir-
              ror/pool/main/../../../etc/shadow (Which should be safe, as  you
              do  not  run  reprepro  as root, do you?)  or simply overwriting
              your conf/distributions file adding some commands in  there.  So
              do  not  use  this  if you are paranoid, unless you are paranoid
              enough to have  checked  the  code  of  your  libs,  kernel  and
              filesystems.

       ignore (for forward compatibility)
              Ignore unknown ignore types given to --ignore.

       flatandnonflat (only supresses a warning)
              Do  not  warn  about a flat and a non-flat distribution from the
              same source with the same name when updating.  (Hopefully  never
              ever needed.)

       malformedchunk (I hope you know what you do)
              Do not stop when finding a line not starting with a space but no
              colon(:) in it. These are otherwise rejected  as  they  have  no
              defined meaning.

       spaceonlyline (I hope you know what you do)
              Allow  lines  containing only (but non-zero) spaces. As these do
              not separate chunks as thus will cause reprepro to behave  unex-
              pected, they cause error messages by default.

       surprisingarch
              Do  not  reject a .changes file containing files for a architec-
              ture not listed in the Architecture-header within it.

       surprisingbinary
              Do not reject a .changes file containing .deb  files  containing
              packages  whose  name  is  not listed in the "Binary:" header of
              that changes file.

       undefinedtarget (hope you are not using the wrong db directory)
              Do not stop when the packages.db  file  contains  databases  for
              codename/packagetype/component/architectures  combinations  that
              are not listed in your distributions file.

              This allows you to temporarily remove some distribution from the
              config  files,  without having to remove the packages in it with
              the clearvanished command.  You might  even  temporarily  remove
              single  architectures  or  components,  though  that might cause
              inconsistencies in some situations.

       undefinedtracking (hope you are not using the wrong db directory)
              Do not stop when the tracking file contains databases  for  dis-
              tributions that are not listed in your distributions file.

              This allows you to temporarily remove some distribution from the
              config files, without having to remove the packages in  it  with
              the  clearvanished  command.  You might even temporarily disable
              tracking in some distribution,  but  that  is  likely  to  cause
              inconsistencies  in  there,  if  you  do  not know, what you are
              doing.

       unknownfield (for forward compatibility)
              Ignore unknown fields in the config files, instead  of  refusing
              to run then.

       unusedarch (safe to ignore)
              No  longer reject a .changes file containing no files for any of
              the architectures listed in the Architecture-header within it.

       unusedoption
              Do not complain about command line options not used by the spec-
              ified action (like --architecture).

       uploaders
              The  include  command  will accept packages that would otherwise
              been rejected by the uploaders file.

       wrongdistribution (safe to ignore)

       expiredkey (I hope you know what you do)
              Accept  signatures  with expired keys.  (Only if the expired key
              is explicitly requested).

       expiredsignature (I hope you know what you do)
              Accept expired signatures with expired keys.  (Only if  the  key
              is explicitly requested).

       revokedkey (I hope you know what you do)
              Accept  signatures  with revoked keys.  (Only if the revoked key
              is explicitly requested).

GUESSING
       When including a binary or source package without explicitly  declaring
       a  component  with -C it will take the first component with the name of
       the section, being prefix to the section, being suffix to  the  section
       or having the section as prefix or any. (In this order)

       Thus   having   specified   the   components:  "main  non-free  contrib
       non-US/main non-US/non-free non-US/contrib" should map  e.g.   "non-US"
       to  "non-US/main" and "contrib/editors" to "contrib", while having only
       "main non-free and contrib" as components should  map  "non-US/contrib"
       to "contrib" and "non-US" to "main".

       NOTE: Always specify main as the first component, if you want things to
       end up there.

       NOTE: unlike in dak, non-US and non-us are different things...

NOMENCLATURE
       Codename the primary identifier of a given distribution. This are  nor-
       mally things like sarge, etch or sid.

       basename
              the name of a file without any directory information.

       filekey
              the  position  relative  to  the mirrordir.  (as found as "File-
              name:" in Packages.gz)

       full filename
              the position relative to /

       architecture
              The term like sparc, i386, mips, ... .  To refer to  the  source
              packages, source is sometimes also treated as architecture.

       component
              Things like main, non-free and contrib (by policy and some other
              programs also called section, reprepro follows the naming scheme
              of apt here.)

       section
       make  sure  the  file  is  no  longer  remembered by reprepro.  Without
       --keepunreferencedfiled and without errors  while  deleting  it  should
       already  be  forgotten,  otherwise  a  deleteunreferenced  or even some
       __forget might help.)

   The magic delete rule ("-").
       A minus as a single word in the Update: line of  a  distribution  marks
       everything  to  be deleted. The mark causes later rules to get packages
       even if they have (strict) lower versions. The mark will get removed if
       a  later rule sets the package on hold (hold is not yet implemented, in
       case you might wonder) or would get a package  with  the  same  version
       (Which  it  will not, see above). If the mark is still there at the end
       of the processing, the package will get removed.

       Thus the line "Update: - rules " will cause all packages to be  exactly
       the  highest  Version found in rules.  The line "Update: near - rules "
       will do the same, except if it needs to  download  packages,  it  might
       download  it  from near except when too confused. (It will get too con-
       fused e.g. when near or rules have multiple versions of the package and
       the highest in near is not the first one in rules, as it never remember
       more than one possible spring for a package.

       Warning: This rule applies to all type/component/architecture  triplets
       of  a  distribution,  not only those some other update rule applies to.
       (That means it will delete everything in those!)

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       Environment variables are always overwritten by command  line  options,
       but  overwrite  options set in the options file. (Even when the options
       file is obviously parsed after the environment variables as  the  envi-
       ronment may determine the place of the options file).

       REPREPRO_BASE_DIR
              The  directory  in  this variable is used instead of the current
              directory, if no -b or --basedir options are supplied.
              It is also set in all hook scripts called by reprepro  (relative
              to  the current directory or absolute, depending on how reprepro
              got it).

       REPREPRO_CONFIG_DIR
              The directory in this variable is used when no --confdir is sup-
              plied.
              It  is also set in all hook scripts called by reprepro (relative
              to the current directory or absolute, depending on how  reprepro
              got it).

       REPREPRO_OUT_DIR
              This  is not used, but only set in hook scripts called by repre-
              pro to the directory in  which  the  pool  subdirectory  resides
              (relative to the current directory or absolute, depending on how
              reprepro got it).

       REPREPRO_DIST_DIR
              This is not used, but only set in hook scripts called by  repre-
              passphrase  cached  yet,  gpg will most likely try to start some
              pinentry program to get it.  If that is pinentry-curses, that is
              likely  to  fail without this variable, because it cannot find a
              terminal to ask on.  In this cases you might set  this  variable
              to  something  like  the value of $(tty) or $SSH_TTY or anything
              else denoting a usable terminal. (You might also  want  to  make
              sure you actually have a terminal available.  With ssh you might
              need the -t option to get a terminal even when  telling  gpg  to
              start a specific command).

              By default, reprepro will set this variable to what the symbolic
              link /proc/self/fd/0 points to, if stdin is a  terminal,  unless
              you told with --noguessgpgtty to not do so.

BUGS
       Increased  verbosity  always  shows  those  things one does not want to
       know.  (Though this might be inevitable and a corollary to Murphy)

       Reprepro uses berkley db, which was a big mistake.  The  most  annoying
       problem not yet worked around is database corruption when the disk runs
       out of space.  (Luckily if it happens while downloading packages  while
       updating,  only  the  files database is affected, which is easy (though
       time consuming) to rebuild, see recovery file  in  the  documentation).
       Ideally put the database on another partition to avoid that.

       While  the  source part is mostly considered as the architecture source
       some parts may still not use this notation.

WORK-AROUNDS TO COMMON PROBLEMS
       gpgme returned an impossible condition
              With the woody version this normally meant  that  there  was  no
              .gnupg  directory in $HOME, but it created one and reprepro suc-
              ceeds when called again with the same command.  Since sarge  the
              problem  sometimes  shows  up,  too.  But it is no longer repro-
              ducible and it does not fix itself,  neither.  Try  running  gpg
              --verify  file-you-had-problems-with manually as the user repre-
              pro is running and with the same $HOME. This alone might fix the
              problem. It should not print any messages except perhaps
              gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
              gpg: the signature could not be verified.
              if it was an unsigned file.

       not  including .orig.tar.gz when a .changes file's version does not end
       in -0 or -1
              If dpkg-buildpackage is run without the -sa option  to  build  a
              version  with  a Debian revision not being -0 or -1, it does not
              list the .orig.tar.gz file in the .changes file.  If you want to
              include  such  a  file  with reprepro when the .orig.tar.gz file
              does not already exist in the  pool,  reprepro  will  report  an
              error.  This can be worked around by:
              call dpkg-buildpackage with -sa (recommended)
              copy  the  .orig.tar.gz  file  to  the  proper place in the pool
              before
              call reprepro with --ignore=missingfile (discouraged)

       Interrupting reprepro has its problems.   Some  things  (like  speaking
       with  apt  methods, database stuff) can cause problems when interrupted
       at the wrong time.  Then there are design problems of the  code  making
       it hard to distinguish if the current state is dangerous or non-danger-
       ous to interrupt.  Thus if reprepro receives a signal normally sent  to
       tell  a process to terminate itself softly, it continues its operation,
       but does not start any new operations.  (I.e. it will not tell the apt-
       methods  any  new  file to download, it will not replace a package in a
       target, unless it already had started with it, it will not  delete  any
       files gotten dereferenced, and so on).

       It  only  catches the first signal of each type. The second signal of a
       given type will terminate reprepro. You will risk  database  corruption
       and have to remove the lockfile manually.

       Also  note  that  even  normal  interruption leads to code-paths mostly
       untested and thus expose a multitude of bugs including those leading to
       data  corruption.   Better think a second more before issuing a command
       than risking the need for interruption.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs or wishlist requests to the Debian BTS
       (e.g. by using reportbug reperepro under Debian)
       or directly to <brlink@debian.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2004,2005,2006,2007 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.



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