NAME¶

chdist - script to easily play with several distributions

SYNOPSIS¶

chdist [options] [command] [command parameters]

chdist [options] DIST command [command parameters]

The second syntax is accepted when the DIST does not match one of the known commands from the list below (see "COMMANDS"). Then the command may be any program available on the system and anything based on apt will be using the DIST apt data.

DESCRIPTION¶

chdist is a rewrite of what used to be known as 'MultiDistroTools' (or mdt). Its use is to create 'APT trees' for several distributions, making it easy to query the status of packages in other distribution without using chroots, for instance.

OPTIONS¶

-h, --help

Provide a usage message.

-d, --data-dir DIR

Choose data directory (default: ~/.chdist/).

-a, --arch ARCH

Choose architecture (default: `dpkg --print-architecture`).

--version

Display version information.

COMMANDS¶

create DIST [URL RELEASE SECTIONS]

Prepare a new tree named DIST

apt DIST <update|source|show|showsrc|...>

Run apt inside DIST

apt-get DIST <update|source|...>

Run apt-get inside DIST

apt-cache DIST <show|showsrc|...>

Run apt-cache inside DIST

apt-file DIST <update|search|...>

Run apt-file inside DIST

apt-rdepends DIST [...]

Run apt-rdepends inside DIST

build-rdeps DIST [...]

Run build-rdeps inside DIST. When the DIST origin and suite/codename differ from the system origin and suite/codename then they need to be set using build-rdeps options.

aptitude DIST [...]

Run aptitude inside DIST

src2bin DIST SRCPKG

List binary packages for SRCPKG in DIST

bin2src DIST BINPKG

List source package for BINPKG in DIST

compare-packages DIST1 DIST2 [DIST3, ...]

compare-bin-packages DIST1 DIST2 [DIST3, ...]

List versions of packages in several DISTributions

compare-versions DIST1 DIST2

compare-bin-versions DIST1 DIST2

Same as compare-packages/compare-bin-packages, but also runs dpkg --compare-versions and display where the package is newer.

compare-src-bin-packages DIST

Compare sources and binaries for DIST

compare-src-bin-versions DIST

Same as compare-src-bin-packages, but also run dpkg --compare-versions and display where the package is newer

grep-dctrl-packages DIST [...]

Run grep-dctrl on *_Packages inside DIST

grep-dctrl-sources DIST [...]

Run grep-dctrl on *_Sources inside DIST

list

List available DISTs

COPYRIGHT¶

This program is copyright 2007 by Lucas Nussbaum and Luk Claes. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

It is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.