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<h3>Commands</h3>
<p><b>Deb-o-Matic</b> provides an interface to perform specific tasks into the
Deb-o-Matic <code>packagedir</code> directory such as removing uploaded files or
rebuilding packages. These operations are handled by commands stored in
<code>.commands</code> files, and uploaded into Deb-o-Matic <code>packagedir</code> by using
<code>dcut</code> utility, or by hand.</p>
<p>Using dcut is usually simpler, just launch the following command:</p>
<pre>dcut -U mydebomatic commandfile.commands</pre>
<p>where <code>mydebomatic</code> is a dput host as described in dput.cf (5) man page, and
<code>commandfile.commands</code> is the file containing the commands to be executed by
Deb-o-Matic.</p>
<p>Multiple commands can be stored in a single <code>.commands</code> file, but it is
usually safer to issue a single command per file.</p>
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<b>Caution:</b> If signature checking support is enabled, .commands files must be signed otherwise they will be deleted and no action will be taken.
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<h3>Remove packages</h3>
<p>It could happen some files are kept into Deb-o-Matic <code>packagedir</code> and you
need to remove them. In order to do so, you must use the <code>rm</code> command:</p>
<pre>echo "rm foo*" &gt; foo.commands</pre>
<p>where <code>foo*</code> is a regular expression matching the files you want to remove.</p>
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<h3>Rebuild packages</h3>
<p>You could want to rebuild a package already in the mirrors to see whether it
compiles with newer packages, to analyze its content, and so on. In order to do
so, you must use the <code>rebuild</code> command:</p>
<pre>echo "rebuild foo_version dist" &gt; foo.commands</pre>
<p>where <code>foo</code> is the name of the source package you want to rebuild,
<code>version</code> is the version of the package you want to rebuild, and <code>dist</code> is
the distribution which rebuild the package for.</p>
<p>Deb-o-Matic can also rebuild packages available in other distributions. The
syntax is similar, you just have to indicate which distribution to pick
packages from:</p>
<pre>echo "rebuild foo_version dist origin" &gt; foo.commands</pre>
<p>where <code>origin</code> is the distribution to pick packages from.</p>
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<b>Caution:</b> Make sure packages are available in the distribution mirrors, otherwise they
cannot be downloaded and processed by Deb-o-Matic.
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<h3>Porter uploads</h3>
<p>You could want to prepare a porter upload, a binary-only upload which generates
architecture dependent binaries only. Additional information can be found in
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#porter-guidelines">Debian Developer’s Reference</a>.</p>
<p>In order to do so, you must use the <code>porter</code> command:</p>
<pre>echo "porter foo_version dist Joe Doe &lt;j.doe@acme.com&gt;" &gt; foo.commands</pre>
<p>where foo is the name of the source package you want to rebuild, version is
the version of the package you want to rebuild, dist is the distribution which
rebuild package for, and the element between quotes is the address to be used
as maintainer field, which is usually the developer who is preparing the
upload.</p>
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<b>Caution:</b> Make sure packages are available in the distribution mirrors, otherwise they
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<h3>Rebuild packages with extra build-dependencies</h3>
<p>You could want to rebuild a package already in the mirrors also adding a
specific build-dependency to see whether it compiles with a newer library
version. In order to do so, you must use the <code>builddep</code> command:</p>
<pre>echo "builddep foo_version dist extrapackage=packageversion" &gt; foo.commands</pre>
<p>where <code>extrapackage</code> is the name of the package you want to install before
the compilation takes place, and <code>packageversion</code> is the optional version of
the package you want to install.</p>
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<b>Caution:</b> Make sure packages are available in the distribution mirrors, otherwise they
cannot be downloaded and processed by Deb-o-Matic.
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