changestool - verify, dump, modify, create or fix Debian .changes files

verify Check for inconsistencies in the specified .changes file and the files referenced by it.

       updatechecksums [ filename ]
              Update the checksum (md5sum and size) information within the specified .changes file and all  .dsc
              files  referenced  by  it.  Without arguments, all files will be updated.  To only update specific
              files, give their filename (without path) as arguments.

       setdistribution [ distributions ]
              Change the Distribution: header to list the remaining arguments.

       includeallsources [ filename ]
              List all files referenced by .dsc files mentioned in the .changes  file  in  said  file.   Without
              arguments,  all  missing  files  will  be  included.   To  only include specific files, give their
              filename (without path) as arguments.

              Take   a   look   at   the   description   of   -si,   -sa   and   -sd   in   the    manpage    of
              dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage how to avoid to have to do this at all.

              Note  that while reprepro will just ignore files listed in a .changes file when it already has the
              file with the same size and md5sum, dak might choke in that case.

       adddebfilenames
              Add the .deb and .udeb files specified by their filenames to the .changes file.  Filenames without
              a slash will be searched in the current directory, the directory the changes file resides  in  and
              in the directories specified by the --searchpath.

       adddscfilenames
              Add  the  .dsc files specified by their filenames to the .changes file.  Filenames without a slash
              will be searched in the current directory, in the directory the changes file resides in and in the
              directories specified by the --searchpath.

       addrawfilefilenames
              Add the files specified by their filenames to the .changes file.  Filenames without a  slash  will
              be  searched  in  the  current  directory, in the directory the changes file resides in and in the
              directories specified by the --searchpath.

       addfilenames
              Behave like adddsc for filenames ending in .dsc, like adddeb  for  filenames  ending  in  .deb  or
              .udeb, and like addrawfile for all other filenames

       dumbremovefilenames
              Remove the specified files from the .changes file.  No other fields (Architectures, Binaries, ...)
              are  updated  and  no  related  files  is  removed.  Just the given files (which must be specified
              without any /) are no longer listen in the .changes file (and only no longer in the changes file).

       Copyright © 2006-2009 Bernhard R. Link
       This  is  free  software;  see  the  source  for  copying  conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

reprepro                                           2010-03-19                                     CHANGESTOOL(1)

       changestool  is  a  little  program  to  operate  on  Debian  .changes  files,  as  they  are produced by
       dpkg-genchanges(1) and  used  to  feed  built  Debian  packages  into  Debian  repository  managers  like
       reprepro(1) or dak.

changestoolbloat.changessetdistributionlocal
       will modify the Distribution: header inside bloat.changes to say local instead of what was there before.

       changestoolreprepro_1.2.0-1.local_sparc.changesincludeallsources
       will modify the given file to also list .orig.tar.gz it does not list because you forgot to build it with
       dpkg-buildpackage-sa.

       changestoolblafasel_1.0_abacus.changesupdatechecksums
       will  update  the  md5sums  to  those of the files referenced by this file.  (So one can do quick'n'dirty
       corrections to them before uploading to your private package repository)

       changestool--createtest.changesaddbla_1-1.dscbla_1-1_abacus.deb
       will add the specified files (format detected by filename, use adddeb or adddsc if you know it).  If  the
       file  test.changes  does not exist yet, a minimal one will be generated. Though that might be too minimal
       for most direct uses.

       Options can be specified before the command. Each affects a different subset of commands and  is  ignored
       by other commands.

       -h--help
              Displays a short list of options and commands with description.

       -o--outputdirdir
              Not yet implemented.

       -s--searchpathpath
              A  colon-separated  list of directories to search for files if they are not found in the directory
              of the .changes file.

       --create
              Flag for the commands starting with add to create the .changes file if it does not yet exists.

       --create-with-all-fields
              Flag for the commands starting with add to create the .changes file if it  does  not  yet  exists.
              Unlike  --create,  this  creates  more fields to make things like dupload happier.  Currently that
              creates fake Urgency and Changes fields.

       --unlzmacommand
              External uncompressor used to  uncompress  lzma  files  to  look  into  .diff.lzma,  .tar.lzma  or
              .tar.lzma within .debs.

       --unxzcommand
              External uncompressor used to uncompress xz files to look into .diff.xz, .tar.xz or .tar.xz within
              .debs.

       --lunzipcommand
              External  uncompressor  used  to  uncompress  lzip files to look into .diff.lz, .tar.lz or .tar.lz
              within .debs.

       --bunzip2command
              External uncompressor used to uncompress bz2 when compiled without libbz2.

       changestool - verify, dump, modify, create or fix Debian .changes files

       Report bugs or wishlist requests the Debian BTS (e.g.  by  using  reportbugreperepro)  or  directly  to
       <brlink@debian.org>.

reprepro(1), dpkg-genchanges(1), dpkg-buildpackage(1), md5sum(1).

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