lintian: r708 - in trunk: debian man
Author: rra
Date: 2006-08-18 23:54:40 +0200 (Fri, 18 Aug 2006)
New Revision: 708
Modified:
trunk/debian/changelog
trunk/man/lintian.1
Log:
* man/lintian.1:
+ [RA] Better document the --archivedir and --dist options and how
lintian constructs the path to an archive. (Closes: #383203)
Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog 2006-08-18 21:31:16 UTC (rev 707)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog 2006-08-18 21:54:40 UTC (rev 708)
@@ -55,8 +55,12 @@
therefore cause lintian to exit with non-zero status. Thanks,
Andree Leidenfrost and Martin F. Krafft. (Closes: #377182, #374314)
- -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:30:36 -0700
+ * man/lintian.1:
+ + [RA] Better document the --archivedir and --dist options and how
+ lintian constructs the path to an archive. (Closes: #383203)
+ -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:54:33 -0700
+
lintian (1.23.22) unstable; urgency=low
* checks/debconf:
Modified: trunk/man/lintian.1
===================================================================
--- trunk/man/lintian.1 2006-08-18 21:31:16 UTC (rev 707)
+++ trunk/man/lintian.1 2006-08-18 21:54:40 UTC (rev 708)
@@ -196,8 +196,9 @@
.TP
.BR \-\-archivedir " archivedir"
-Location of Debian archive to scan for packages. Use this if you want
-Lintian to check the whole Debian archive instead of just single
+Location of Debian archive to scan for packages. (See the FILES section
+for complete information on how the path is constructed.) Use this if you
+want Lintian to check the whole Debian archive instead of just single
packages. This option overrides the
.B LINTIAN_ARCHIVEDIR
environment variable and the configuration file entry of the same
@@ -207,8 +208,9 @@
.BR \-\-dist " distdir"
Scan for packages in the
.IR distdir
-directory. Use this if you want Lintian to check the whole Debian
-archive instead of just single packages. This option overrides the
+directory. (See the FILES section for complete information on how the
+path is constructed.) Use this if you want Lintian to check the whole
+Debian archive instead of just single packages. This option overrides the
.B LINTIAN_DIST
environment variable and the configuration file entry of the same
name.
@@ -601,6 +603,20 @@
.B \-\-root
option.
+.PP
+When looking for packages in a Debian archive, lintian constructs the path
+to the archive from the
+.IR archivedir ,
+.IR distdir ,
+.IR release ,
+.RI and arch
+as follows:
+.sp
+.IR archivedir /dists/ distdir / release / arch
+.sp
+Lintian always expects the "/dists/" path component in paths to Debian
+archives.
+
.SH EXIT STATUS
.TP
.B 0
@@ -626,6 +642,10 @@
on what is found, this command will check either the source or binary
package foo, or both.)
.TP
+.B "$ lintian --archivedir /var/packages --dist custom --section main"
+Check all packages found in the Debian archive at
+.IR /var/packages/dists/custom/main .
+.TP
.B "$ lintian \-i foo.changes"
Check the changes file and, if listed, the source and binary package
of the upload. The output will contain detailed information about the
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