NAME¶
origtargz - fetch the orig tarball of a Debian package from various sources, and
unpack it
SYNOPSIS¶
- origtargz [OPTIONS]
[--unpack[=no|once|yes]]
- origtargz --help
DESCRIPTION¶
origtargz downloads the orig tarball of a Debian package, and optionally
unpacks it into the current directory. The version number to be used is
determined from
debian/changelog. The main use for
origtargz is
with debian-dir-only repository checkouts. It should be invoked from the top
level directory of an unpacked Debian source package.
Various download locations are tried:
- •
- First, an existing file is looked for.
- •
- Directories given with --path are searched.
- •
- pristine-tar is tried.
- •
- apt-get source is tried when apt-cache showsrc reports a
matching version.
- •
- Finally, uscan --download-current-version is tried.
When asked to unpack the orig tarball,
origtargz will remove all files
and directories from the current directory, except the debian directory, and
the VCS repository directories. Some files outside
debian/ which are
often stored in VCS even for debian-dir-only repositories are also preserved (
.bzr-builddeb,
.gitignore,
.hgignore).
Note that this
will drop all non-committed changes for the patch system in use (e.g.
source format "3.0 (quilt)"), and will even remove all patches from
the package when no patch system is in use (the original "1.0"
source format).
The default behavior is to unpack the orig tarball on the first invocation of
origtargz in a debian-dir-only checkout.
NOTES¶
Despite
origtargz being called "targz", it will work with any
compression scheme used for the tarball.
A similar tool to unpack orig tarballs is
uupdate(1).
uupdate
creates a new working directory, unpacks the tarball, and applies the Debian
.diff.gz changes. In contrast,
origtargz uses the current
directory, keeping VCS metadata.
For Debian package repositories that keep the full upstream source, other tools
should be used to upgrade the repository from the new tarball. See
git-import-orig(1) and
svn-upgrade(1) for examples.
origtargz is still useful for downloading the current tarball.
OPTIONS¶
- -p, --path directory
- Add directory to the list of locations to search for an existing
tarball. When found, a hardlink is created if possible, otherwise a
symlink.
- -u, --unpack[=no|once|yes]
- Unpack the downloaded orig tarball to the current directory, replacing
everything except the debian directory. Existing files are removed, except
for debian/ and VCS files. Preserved are: .bzr,
.bzrignore, .bzr-builddeb, .git, .gitignore,
.hg, .hgignore, _darcs and .svn.
- no
- Do not unpack the orig tarball.
- once (default when --unpack is not used)
- If the current directory contains only a debian directory (and
possibly some dotfiles), unpack the orig tarball. This is the default
behavior.
- yes (default for --unpack without argument)
- Always unpack the orig tarball.
- -d, --download-only
- Alias for --unpack=no.
- -t, --tar-only
- When using apt-get source, pass --tar-only to it. The
default is to download the full source package including .dsc and
.diff.gz or .debian.tar.gz components so debdiff can
be used to diff the last upload to the next one. With --tar-only,
only download the .orig.tar.* file.
- --clean
- Remove existing files as with --unpack. Note that like
--unpack, this will remove upstream files even if they are stored
in VCS.
SEE ALSO¶
debcheckout(1),
git-import-orig(1),
pristine-tar(1),
svn-upgrade(1),
uupdate(1)
AUTHOR¶
origtargz and this manpage have been written by Christoph Berg <
myon@debian.org>.
