Ubuntu Manpage: dupload - Debian package upload tool

NAME

       dupload - Debian package upload tool

SYNOPSIS

       dupload [options...] [changes-file|directory...]

DESCRIPTION

dupload is a tool that enables people maintaining Debian packages to easily upload them to a Debian
repository.

dupload checks each non-option argument to find readable files or directories. It parses the files as
.changes files, or tries to find such files in the given directories.

dupload will warn if the name of the file does not end with .changes. Further processing is done changing
into the directories of the changes files.

dupload tests the available checksums and size for each file listed in the .changes file, and fails if it
finds a mismatch. If all this goes well, dupload checks if there is an .upload file with the basename of
the .changes file. If the file to be uploaded is recorded to have already been uploaded to the specified
host, it is skipped.

After the list of files to upload is finished, dupload tries to connect to the server and upload. Each
successfully uploaded file is recorded in the .upload log file.

If all files of a package are processed, the .changes file is mailed to the announcement address
specified in the configuration file, see the Announcement section for more details.

Upload methods
The default transfer method is ftp. Alternative methods are http, https, scp/SSH, scpb/SSH, rsync/SSH
and copy.

If you are using an upload queue, use ftp because it is fast. If you are using an authenticated host,
always use https, or one of scp or rsync via SSH, because ftp transmits the password in clear text.

ftp
If no login (username) is defined in the configuration file, anonymous is used. The password is
derived from your login name and your hostname, which is common for anonymous FTP logins. For
anonymous logins only, you can provide the "password" in the configuration file.

For logins other than anonymous, you are asked for the password. For security reasons there is no way
to supply it via the command-line or the environment.

http (since 2.9.9) / https (since 2.9.9)
There is no default login nor password. If you specify a login, a password will be fetched from
passwordcmd or if that is not defined via the Secret Service interface, otherwise it will be prompted.

scp (since 1.8) / scpb (since 1.17)
The default login is delegated to SSH and its own configuration.

The scp/SSH method only works properly if no password is required (see ssh(1)). When you use scp, it
is recommended to set the "method" keyword to scpb, which will transfer all files in a batch.

rsync (since 2.4.1)
The default login is delegated to SSH and its own configuration.

copy (since 2.9.0)
The copy method works by simply copying the files to another directory in the local filesystem.

Announcement
If the host has been configured to send announcement mails, the .changes file will be sent to the
specified addresses.

The contents of all the following files are prepended to the announcement mail body, if present:

package.announce
package_upstream-version.announce
package_upstream-version-revision.announce

Where upstream-version and revision are to be replaced with actual version numbers. For example, if your
package is called foobar, has upstream version 3.14, and Debian revision 2:

• If you only want the announcement to be made with only ONE upload, you name it foobar_3.14-2.announce.

• If you want it to be made with every upload of a particular upstream version, name it
foobar_3.14.announce.

• If you want it made with every upload of a given package, name it foobar.announce.

By default, the announcement addresses are unset because dinstall sends mails instead.

OPTIONS

-t, --to nickname
Upload to nickname'd host. nickname is the key for doing lookups in the config file. You can
use the default_host configuration option to specify a host without --to.

-c, --configfile filename
Read the file filename as a configuration file, in addition to the global configuration file.

-f, --force Upload regardless of the transfers logged as already completed.

-k, --keep Keep going, skipping packages whose checksums does not match.

-q, --quiet Be quiet, i.e., suppress normal output and progress bars.

-d, --debug [level]
Enable more verbose output from the ftp, scp and scpb methods.

For scp and scpb (since 2.10.2) a -v per level is passed to the scp command.

--no Dry run, no files are changed, no upload is attempted, only tell what we would do.

--nostats Suppress printing download statistics.

Since version 2.10.2.

--mta pathname
Use pathname as the sendmail compatible MTA. The MTA specified must support the -f option to
set the envelope sender address, and the -F option to set the sender's full name. The
default is /usr/sbin/sendmail.

Since version 2.9.8.

--nomail Suppress announcement for this run. You can send it later by just calling dupload again w/o
this option. Note that this option is by default implied for all hosts with the dinstall_runs
option set to 1.

--mailonly Acts as if --no has been specified, but sends the announcements, unconditionally.

--noarchive Adds an X-No-Archive: yes header so that the announcement will not be archived. You can use
the per-host archive option in the configuration file.

-p, --print Print the "database" as read from the config files and exit. If a host is specified via
option --to, only this host's entry is displayed.

--help Prints the program usage message and exits.

-V, --Version
Prints version and exits.

FILES

       /etc/dupload.conf
       ~/.dupload.conf
       --configfile config-file
           The configuration files are loaded if available in the order listed, overriding previous files.

       package.announce
       package_upstream-version.announce
       package_upstream-version-revision.announce
           If present, they will all be read to prepend to the announcement mail.

       .changes
       .dsc
       .orig.tar.*
       .debian.tar.*
       .diff.*
       .deb
           The .changes file to upload and all of its referenced files.

       package_version_arch.upload
           The file where dupload writes the upload log.

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