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NAME

chdist - script to easily play with several distributions

SYNOPSIS

chdist [options] [command] [command parameters]

DESCRIPTION

chdist is a rewrite of what used to be known as 'MultiDistroTools' (or mdt). Its use is to create ' 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: $HOME/.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-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

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

DIST

ributions

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

DIST

s

COPYRIGHT

This program is copyright 2007 by Lucas Nussbaum and Luk Claes. This program comes with

It is licensed under the terms of the

either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.