Synopsis

repo-add [options] <path-to-db> <package|delta> [<package|delta> …]

repo-remove [options] <path-to-db> <packagename|delta> [<packagename|delta> …]

Description

repo-add and repo-remove are two scripts to help build a package database for packages built with makepkg(8) and installed with pacman(8). They also handle package deltas produced by pkgdelta(8).

repo-add will update a package database by reading a built package or package delta file. Multiple packages and/or deltas to add can be specified on the command line.

repo-remove will update a package database by removing the package name or delta specified on the command line. Multiple packages and/or delta to remove can be specified on the command line.

A package database is a tar file, optionally compressed. Valid extensions are “.db” or “.files” followed by an archive extension of “.tar”, “.tar.gz”, “.tar.bz2”, “.tar.xz”, or “.tar.Z”. The file does not need to exist, but all parent directories must exist.

Common Options

-q, --quiet

Force this program to keep quiet and run silent except for warning and error messages.

-s, --sign

Generate a PGP signature file using GnuPG. This will execute gpg --detach-sign --use-agent on the generated database to generate a detached signature file, using the GPG agent if it is available. The signature file will be the entire filename of the database with a “.sig” extension.

-k, --key <key>

Specify a key to use when signing packages. Can also be specified using the GPGKEY environmental variable. If not specified in either location, the default key from the keyring will be used.

-v, --verify

Verify the PGP signature of the database before updating the database. If the signature is invalid, an error is produced and the update does not proceed.

repo-add Options

-d, --delta

Automatically generate and add a delta file between the old entry and the new one, if the old package file is found next to the new one.

-f, --files

Tells repo-add also to create and include a list of the files in the specified packages. This is useful for creating databases listing all files in a given sync repository for tools that may use this information.

See Also

makepkg(8), pacman(8), pkgdelta(8)

See the pacman website at http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/ for current information on pacman and its related tools.

Bugs

Bugs? You must be kidding, there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, send us an email with as much detail as possible to pacman-dev@archlinux.org.

Authors

Current maintainers:

Past major contributors:

For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git repository.