DEBSNAP(1)
NAME
debsnap - retrieve old snapshots of Debian packages
SYNOPSIS
debsnap [options] package [version] debsnap [-h | --help] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
debsnap is a tool to help with retrieving snapshots of old packages
from a daily archive repository.
The only publicly available snapshot archive is currently located at http://snapshot.debian.org
By default, debsnap will download all the available versions for package that are found in the snapshot archive. If a version is specified,
only that particular version will be downloaded, if available.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
- -d destination, --destdir destination
- Directory to place retrieved packages.
- -f, --force
- Force writing into an existing destination. By default debsnap will insist the destination directory does not exist yet unless it is explicitly specified to be '.' (the current working directory). This is to avoid files being accidentally overwritten by what is fetched from the archive and to provide a guarantee for other scripts that only the files fetched will be present there upon completion.
- -v, --verbose
- Report on the debsnap configuration being used and progress during the download operation. Please always use this option when reporting bugs.
- -h, --help
- Show a summary of these options.
- --version
- Show the version of debsnap.
CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
debsnap may also be configured through the use of the following options
in the devscripts configuration files:
- DEBSNAP_VERBOSE
- Same as the command line option --verbose. Set to "yes" to enable.
- DEBSNAP_DESTDIR
- Set a default path for the destination directory. If unset ./source-<package_name> will be used. The command line option --destdir will override this.
- DEBSNAP_BASE_URL
- The base url for the snapshots archive.
- If unset this defaults to http://snapshot.debian.org
EXIT STATUS
debsnap will return an exit status of 0 if all operations succeeded, 1
if a fatal error occurred, and 2 if some packages failed to be downloaded but operations otherwise succeeded as expected. In some cases
packages may fail to be downloaded because they are no longer available
on the snapshot mirror, so any caller should expect this may occur in
normal use.
FILES
- /etc/devscripts.conf
- Global devscripts configuration options. Will override hardcoded defaults.
- ~/.devscripts
- Per-user configuration options. Will override any global configuration.
SEE ALSO
devscripts(1), devscripts.conf(5), git-debimport(1)
AUTHORS
David Paleino <dapal@debian.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 David Paleino
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at
your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
BUGS
- Reporting bugs
- The program is part of the devscripts package. Please report bugs using `reportbug devscripts`