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HOW-CAN-I-HELP(1) | HOW-CAN-I-HELP(1) |
NAME¶
how-can-i-help - show opportunities for contributing to DebianSYNOPSIS¶
how-can-i-help [-haoqs] [--help] [--all] [--old] [ --quiet] [--show <type>...]DESCRIPTION¶
how-can-i-help hooks into APT to list opportunities for contributions to Debian (orphaned packages, bugs tagged newcomer) for packages installed locally, after each APT invocation. It can also be invoked directly, and then lists all opportunities for contribution (not just the new ones).OPTIONS¶
Options must come before the other command line arguments. -h, --helpShow some help.
-a, --all
Show new opportunities for contribution to all
available Debian packages.
-o, --old
Show opportunities that were already shown
before (will also show the new ones).
-q, --quiet
Do not display header and footer.
-s <type>..., --show <type>...
Show only specific types of opportunities.
Provided types have to be separated by commas.
PROXY SUPPORT¶
how-can-i-help uses the HTTP_PROXY (or http_proxy) environment variable as HTTP proxy configuration.RUNNING ON REGULAR BASIS¶
You can run how-can-i-help in a cron job as a normal user so that you receive a mail when new things are reported. To receive only mails when new contributions are reported, use the -q flag.0 8 * * * how-can-i-help -q
SHOW ONLY SPECIFIC TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES¶
how-can-i-help can be configured to show only specific types of opportunities. You only need to run it with --show option followed by a single space and then a list of types. Types have to be separated only by commas.how-can-i-help --show newcomer,RFH
how-can-i-help --old --show newcomer
IGNORE SELECTED TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES¶
how-can-i-help can also ignore selected types of opportunities. These are listed in ~/.config/how-can-i-help/ignored separated by whitespaces or newlines.TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES¶
The following acronyms are used to describe the supported types:ADDITIONAL PACKAGES¶
how-can-i-help can also monitor packages not installed locally. These are listed in ~/.config/how-can-i-help/packages separated by whitespaces or newlines.# ssh myserver dpkg -l | tail -n+5 | awk '{ print $2 }' \ >> ~/.config/how-can-i-help/packages
SEE ALSO¶
https://wiki.debian.org/how-can-i-helpAUTHORS¶
Tomasz Nitecki (tnnn@tnnn.pl)DATE¶
2014-12-0112/01/2014 |