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 ’ APT 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: ~/.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 DIST <update|source|show|showsrc|...>
Run apt inside 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
aptitude DIST [...]
Run aptitude 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 ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
It is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.