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APT-DATER(8)							  [FIXME: manual]						      APT-DATER(8)

NAME
apt-dater - terminal-based remote package update manager SYNOPSIS
apt-dater [[-(c config|v|[n]r)]] DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the apt-dater command. apt-dater is a program to manage package updats on a large number of remote hosts using SSH. OPTIONS
apt-dater accepts the following command parameters: -c config Use alternative config file. Default is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apt-dater/apt-dater.conf. -v Show apt-dater version and copyright statement. -r Refresh hosts and create XML report on stdout. apt-dater must be compiled with XMLREPORT feature. -n Prevent hosts to be refreshed before create XML report (useful for cronjobs which do not have access to SSH key(s)). ENVIRONMENT
MAINTAINER The maintainer's name (i.e. used by debtrack). If not set, the GECOS entry for the current user will be used. This environment variable could be forwarded to remote hosts with the ssh(1) SendEnv+AcceptEnv options. FILES
~/.config/apt-dater/apt-dater.conf The configuration file of apt-dater ~/.config/apt-dater/hosts.conf Contains all hosts you would like to manage SEE ALSO
apt-dater.conf(5), aptitude(1), apt-get(1), debtrack, screen(1), ssh(1). AUTHORS
Andre Ellguth <ellguth@ibh.de> Maintainer. Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de> Maintainer. Jens Haser <jens_dd@hotmail.de> Fixed some UI glitches. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008-2012 IBH IT-Service GmbH [http://www.ibh.de/] [FIXME: source] May 29, 2012 APT-DATER(8)

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SBUILD-APT(1)							   Debian sbuild						     SBUILD-APT(1)

NAME
sbuild-apt - run apt-get or apt-cache in an sbuild chroot SYNOPSIS
sbuild-apt [-h|--help | -V|--version] CHROOT (apt-get|apt-cache) [ARG1 [ARG2 [ARGn...]]] DESCRIPTION
sbuild-apt runs apt-get(1) or apt-cache(1) inside the specified chroot, along with any additional arguments. OPTIONS
Actions -h, --help Display this manual. -V, --version Print version information. Chroot selection CHROOT The chroot to run the command in. Note that 'o', 's', 't', 'u' and 'e' may be used as abbreviations for 'oldstable', 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable' and 'experimental', respectively. APT options apt-get Run apt-get. apt-cache Run apt-cache. ARG Additional arguments to pass to apt-get or apt-cache. EXAMPLES
To update the APT package lists in the unstable chroot: % sbuild-apt unstable apt-get update Note that sbuild-update(1) is a more convenient method for doing the above. AUTHORS
Roger Leigh. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>. SEE ALSO
apt-cache(1), apt-get(1), sbuild(1), sbuild-update(1), sbuild-upgrade(1). Version 0.63.2 18 Aug 2012 SBUILD-APT(1)
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