NAME¶
daptup - wrapper script on 'apt-get update'
SYNOPSIS¶
daptup [
--pre |
--post |
--last ] [
-h |
--help ] [
--nocolor ]
OPTIONS¶
- --pre
- Do only 'pre' stage: collect info that will be used as
'old'. Usually need to be specified only in apt hooks.
- --post
- If appropriate option is enabled in config file, do only
'post' stage: collect 'new' info and output changes. Otherwise do nothing.
Usually need to be specified only in apt hooks.
- --last
- Output changes only. This option is supposed to be
specified when you want to see changes made in the last update. Note that
list of outdated packages, if daptup is configured to output it, will be
rebuilt.
- -h --help
- prints the help
- --nocolor
- Disables color output, useful for scripts or when output is
not terminal. Now works only with --last option, however, you can
disable color globally in configuration file.
daptup is a script that runs "apt-get update" inside and
outputs list of packages recently entered to repo, list of packages which got
new updates, list of changes in 'watched' packages and, optionally, list of
outdated packages.
Starting with 0.8.0 version,
daptup uses apt hooks and you don't need to
explicitly call it if you use 'apt-get update'.
TROUBLESHOOTING¶
If
daptup was interrupted while building the lists, the cached lists can
stay in inconsistent state, which is inappropriate if you want to use
--last option before the new update. There is nothing to do if
interrupt was occured at the moment when old lists were building (besides
running the new update). However, if interrupt was occured when the new lists
were building, you can easily redo this stage by calling 'daptup --post'.
FILES¶
- /etc/daptup.conf
- self-documented configuration file
- /var/spool/daptup/outdated
- cached file with info about outdated packages
SEE ALSO¶
apt-get(8),
aptitude(8),
apt-show-versions(1p)
AUTHOR¶
daptup was written by Eugene V. Lyubimkin.
This manual page was written by Eugene V. Lyubimkin
<jackyf.devel@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by
others).