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6 chdist - script to easily play with several distributions
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9 chdist [options] [command] [command parameters]
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12 chdist is a rewrite of what used to be known as 'MultiDistroTools' (or
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14 making it easy to query the status of packages in other distribution
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18 -h, --help
19 Provide a usage message.
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21 -d, --data-dir DIR
22 Choose data directory (default: ~/.chdist/).
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25 Choose architecture (default: `dpkg --print-architecture`).
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31 create DIST [URL RELEASE SECTIONS]
32 Prepare a new tree named DIST
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34 apt DIST <update|source|show|showsrc|...>
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37 apt-get DIST <update|source|...>
38 Run apt-get inside DIST
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40 apt-cache DIST <show|showsrc|...>
41 Run apt-cache inside DIST
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43 apt-file DIST <update|search|...>
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46 apt-rdepends DIST [...]
47 Run apt-rdepends inside DIST
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49 aptitude DIST [...]
50 Run aptitude inside DIST
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52 src2bin DIST SRCPKG
53 List binary packages for SRCPKG in DIST
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55 bin2src DIST BINPKG
56 List source package for BINPKG in DIST
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58 compare-packages DIST1 DIST2 [DIST3, ...]
59 compare-bin-packages DIST1 DIST2 [DIST3, ...]
60 List versions of packages in several DISTributions
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67 compare-src-bin-packages DIST
68 Compare sources and binaries for DIST
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71 Same as compare-src-bin-packages, but also run dpkg
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74 grep-dctrl-packages DIST [...]
75 Run grep-dctrl on *_Packages inside DIST
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78 Run grep-dctrl on *_Sources inside DIST
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81 List available DISTs
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84 This program is copyright 2007 by Lucas Nussbaum and Luk Claes. This
85 program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
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87 It is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the
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92Debian Utilities 2020-07-27 CHDIST(1)