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repo-add - package database maintenance utility
SYNOPSIS
repo-add [options] <path-to-db> <package|delta> [<package|delta> ...]
repo-remove [options] <path-to-db> <packagename|delta>
[<packagename|delta> ...]
DESCRIPTION
repo-add and repo-remove are two scripts to help build a package
database for packages built with makepkg(8) and installed with
pacman(8). They also handle package deltas produced by pkgdelta(8).
repo-add will update a package database by reading a built package or
package delta file. Multiple packages and/or deltas to add can be
specified on the command line.
repo-remove will update a package database by removing the package name
or delta specified on the command line. Multiple packages and/or delta
to remove can be specified on the command line.
A package database is a tar file, optionally compressed. Valid
extensions are “.db” or “.files” followed by an archive extension of
“.tar”, “.tar.gz”, “.tar.bz2”, “.tar.xz”, or “.tar.Z”. The file does
not need to exist, but all parent directories must exist.
COMMON OPTIONS-q, --quiet
Force this program to keep quiet and run silent except for warning
and error messages.
-s, --sign
Generate a PGP signature file using GnuPG. This will execute gpg
--detach-sign --use-agent on the generated database to generate a
detached signature file, using the GPG agent if it is available.
The signature file will be the entire filename of the database with
a “.sig” extension.
-k, --key <key>
Specify a key to use when signing packages. Can also be specified
using the GPGKEY environmental variable. If not specified in either
location, the default key from the keyring will be used.
-v, --verify
Verify the PGP signature of the database before updating the
database. If the signature is invalid, an error is produced and the
update does not proceed.
--nocolor
Remove color from repo-add and repo-remove output.
REPO-ADD OPTIONS
-d, --delta
Automatically generate and add a delta file between the old entry
and the new one, if the old package file is found next to the new
one.
-f, --files
Tells repo-add also to create and include a list of the files in
the specified packages. This is useful for creating databases
listing all files in a given sync repository for tools that may use
this information.
-n, --new
Only add packages that are not already in the database. Warnings
will be printed upon detection of existing packages, but they will
not be re-added.
SEE ALSOmakepkg(8), pacman(8), pkgdelta(8)
See the pacman website at https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/ for current
information on pacman and its related tools.
BUGS
Bugs? You must be kidding, there are no bugs in this software. But if
we happen to be wrong, send us an email with as much detail as possible
to pacman-dev@archlinux.org.
AUTHORS
Current maintainers:
· Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
· Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
· Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Past major contributors:
· Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
· Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
· Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
· Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
· Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git
repository.
Pacman 4.1.2 2013-06-18 REPO-ADD(8)
