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6 debcheckout - checkout the development repository of a Debian package
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9 debcheckout [OPTIONS] PACKAGE [DESTDIR]
10 debcheckout [OPTIONS] REPOSITORY_URL [DESTDIR]
11 debcheckout --help
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14 debcheckout retrieves the information about the Version Control System
15 used to maintain a given Debian package (the PACKAGE argument), and
16 then checks out the latest (potentially unreleased) version of the
17 package from its repository. By default the repository is checked out
18 to the PACKAGE directory; this can be overridden by providing the
19 DESTDIR argument.
20 The information about where the repository is available is expected to
22 be found in Vcs-* fields available in the source package record. For
23 example, the vim package exposes such information with a field like
24 Vcs-Hg: http://hg.debian.org/hg/pkg-vim/vim, you can see it by grepping
25 through apt-cache showsrc vim.
26 If more than one source package record containing Vcs-* fields is
28 available, debcheckout will select the record with the highest version
29 number. Alternatively, a particular version may be selected from those
30 available by specifying the package name as PACKAGE=VERSION.
31 If you already know the URL of a given repository you can invoke
33 debcheckout directly on it, but you will probably need to pass the
34 appropriate -t flag. That is, some heuristics are in use to guess the
35 repository type from the URL; if they fail, you might want to override
36 the guessed type using -t.
37 The currently supported version control systems are: Arch (arch),
39 Bazaar (bzr), CVS (cvs), Darcs (darcs), Git (git), Mercurial (hg) and
40 Subversion (svn).
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43 GENERAL OPTIONS
44 -a, --auth
46 Work in authenticated mode; this means that for known repositories
47 (mainly those hosted on https://salsa.debian.org) URL rewriting is
48 attempted before checking out, to ensure that the repository can be
49 committed to. For example, for Git repositories hosted on Salsa
50 this means that git@salsa.debian.org:...git will be used instead of
51 https://salsa.debian.org/...git.
52 There are built-in rules for salsa.debian.org, alioth.debian.org
54 and github.com. Other hosts can be configured using
55 DEBCHECKOUT_AUTH_URLS.
56 -d, --details
58 Only print a list of detailed information about the package
59 repository, without checking it out; the output format is a list of
60 fields, each field being a pair of TAB-separated field name and
61 field value. The actual fields depend on the repository type. This
62 action might require a network connection to the remote repository.
63 Also see -p. This option and -p are mutually exclusive.
65 -h, --help
67 Print a detailed help message and exit.
68 -p, --print
70 Only print a summary about package repository information, without
71 checking it out; the output format is TAB-separated with two
72 fields: repository type, repository URL. This action works offline,
73 it only uses "static" information as known by APT's cache.
74 Also see -d. This option and -d are mutually exclusive.
76 -P package, --package package
78 When checking out a repository URL, instead of trying to guess the
79 package name from the URL, use this package name.
80 -t TYPE, --type TYPE
82 Override the repository type (which defaults to some heuristics
83 based on the URL or, in case of heuristic failure, the fallback
84 "git"); should be one of the currently supported repository types.
85 -u USERNAME, --user USERNAME
87 Specify the login name to be used in authenticated mode (see -a).
88 This option implies -a: you don't need to specify both.
89 -f FILE, --file FILE
91 Specify that the named file should be extracted from the repository
92 and placed in the destination directory. May be used more than once
93 to extract multiple files.
94 --source=never|auto|download-only|always
96 Some packages only place the debian directory in version control.
97 debcheckout can retrieve the remaining parts of the source using
98 apt-get source and move the files into the checkout.
99 never
101 Only use the repository.
102 auto (default)
104 If the repository only contains the debian directory, retrieve
105 the source package, unpack it, and also place the .orig.tar.gz
106 file into the current directory. Else, do nothing.
107 download-only
109 Always retrieve the .orig.tar.gz file, but do not unpack it.
110 always
112 Always retrieve the .orig.tar.gz file, and if the repository
113 only contains the debian directory, unpack it.
114 VCS-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
116 GIT-SPECIFIC OPTIONS
118 --git-track BRANCHES
120 Specify a list of remote branches which will be set up for tracking
121 (as in git branch --track, see git-branch(1)) after the remote Git
122 repository has been cloned. The list should be given as a space-
123 separated list of branch names.
124 As a shorthand, the string "*" can be given to require tracking of
126 all remote branches.
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129 The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
130 sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables.
131 Command line options can be used to override configuration file
132 settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.
133 The currently recognised variables are:
134 DEBCHECKOUT_AUTH_URLS
136 This variable should be a space separated list of Perl regular
137 expressions and replacement texts, which must come in pairs: REGEXP
138 TEXT REGEXP TEXT ... and so on. Each pair denotes a substitution
139 which is applied to repository URLs if other built-in means of
140 building URLs for authenticated mode (see -a) have failed.
141 References to matching substrings in the replacement texts are
143 allowed as usual in Perl by the means of $1, $2, ... and so on.
144 This setting is used to configure the "authenticated mode" location
146 for repositories. The Debian repositories on salsa.debian.org are
147 implicitly defined, as is github.com.
148 Here is a sample snippet suitable for the configuration files:
150 DEBCHECKOUT_AUTH_URLS='
152 ^\w+://(svn\.example\.com)/(.*) svn+ssh://$1/srv/svn/$2
153 ^\w+://(git\.example\.com)/(.*) git+ssh://$1/home/git/$2
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155 Note that whitespace is not allowed in either regexps or
157 replacement texts. Also, given that configuration files are sourced
158 by a shell, you probably want to use single quotes around the value
159 of this variable.
160 DEBCHECKOUT_SOURCE
162 This variable determines under what scenarios the associated
163 orig.tar.gz for a package will be downloaded. See the --source
164 option for a description of the values.
165 DEBCHECKOUT_USER
167 This variable sets the username for authenticated mode. It can be
168 overridden with the --user option. Setting this variable does not
169 imply the use of authenticated mode, it still has to be activated
170 with --auth.
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173 apt-cache(8), Section 6.2.5 of the Debian Developer's Reference (for
174 more information about Vcs-* fields):
175 https://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-vcs.
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178 debcheckout and this manpage have been written by Stefano Zacchiroli
179 <zack@debian.org>.
180Debian Utilities 2020-07-27 DEBCHECKOUT(1)