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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" lintian\-lab\-tool \- perform common operations on/involving laboratories .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" \&\fBlintian-lab-tool\fR [...] .PP \&\fBlintian-lab-tool\fR help .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" The \fBlintian-lab-tool\fR ... .SH "OPERATIONS" .IX Header "OPERATIONS" .IP "\fBcreate-lab\fR \fIlaboratory-dir\fR" 4 .IX Item "create-lab laboratory-dir" Creates a new permanent Lintian laboratory in the directory denoted by \fBlaboratory-dir\fR. .IP "\fBhelp\fR [\fIcmd\fR]" 4 .IX Item "help [cmd]" Display the synopsis of this tool or one of its operations. .IP "\fBremove-lab\fR \fIlaboratory-dir\fR" 4 .IX Item "remove-lab laboratory-dir" Removes a permanent Lintian laboratory in the directory denoted by \fBlaboratory-dir\fR. .IP "\fBremove-pkgs\fR \fIlaboratory-dir\fR \fIquery\fR [... \fIquery\fR]" 4 .IX Item "remove-pkgs laboratory-dir query [... query]" Removes all packages matching the given \fIqueries\fR from the permanent Lintian laboratory denoted by \fBlaboratory-dir\fR. .IP "\fBscrub-lab\fR \fIlaboratory-dir\fR" 4 .IX Item "scrub-lab laboratory-dir" Attempt to fix common metadata issues in an existing laboratory. .Sp This command can correct \fIsome\fR corruptions caused by programs that failed to synchronize the laboratory metadata with the actual contents. Almost all corrections involve discarding corrupted entries. .Sp These issues usually occur because: .RS 4 .IP "\(bu" 4 Two processes update the laboratory concurrently. .IP "\(bu" 4 A process updated the laboratory but was killed / crashed before it properly close the laboratory. .RE .RS 4 .Sp Note that Lintian tools will fix these issues automatically as the tools happen to run into the issues. .RE .SH "CAVEAT" .IX Header "CAVEAT" Laboratories are not designed to have multiple processes working on them concurrently. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" \&\fBlintian\fR\|(1) .SH "AUTHORS" .IX Header "AUTHORS" Niels Thykier .PP Richard Braakman .PP Christian Schwarz