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DEBCONF-COPYDB(1)						      Debconf							 DEBCONF-COPYDB(1)

NAME

       debconf-copydb - copy a debconf database

SYNOPSIS

	debconf-copydb sourcedb destdb [--pattern=pattern] [--owner-pattern=pattern] [--config=Foo:bar]

DESCRIPTION

       debconf-copydb copies items from an existing debconf database into another, possibly new database. The two databases may have different
       formats; if so a conversion will automatically be done.

OPTIONS

       sourcedb
	   The name of the source database. Typically it will be defined in your debconf.conf (or .debconfrc) file.

       destdb
	   The name of the destination database. It may be defined in debconf.conf or .debconfrc, or you might define it on the command line (see
	   below).

       -p pattern, --pattern pattern
	   If this is specified, only items in sourcedb whose names match the pattern will be copied.

       --owner-pattern pattern
	   If this is specified, only items in sourcedb whose owners match the pattern will be copied.

       -c foo:bar, --config Foo:bar
	   Set option Foo to bar. This is similar to writing:

	     Foo: bar

	   In debconf.conf, except you probably want to leave off the space on the command line (or quote it: "Foo: bar"). Generally must be used
	   multiple times, to build up a full configuration stanza. While blank lines are used to separate stanzas in debconf.conf, this program
	   will assume that "Name:dbname" denotes the beginning of a new stanza.

EXAMPLES

	 debconf-copydb configdb backup

       Copy all of configdb to backup, assuming you already have the backup database defined in debconf.conf.

	 debconf-copydb configdb newdb --pattern='^slrn/' 
	       --config=Name:newdb --config=Driver:File 
	       --config=Filename:newdb.dat

       Copy slrn's data out of configdb, and into newdb. newdb is not defined in the rc file, so the --config switches set up the database on the
       fly.

	 debconf-copydb configdb stdout -c Name:stdout -c Driver:Pipe 
	       -c InFd:none --pattern='^foo/'

       Spit out all the items in the debconf database related to package foo.

	 debconf-copydb configdb pipe --config=Name:pipe 
		       --config=Driver:Pipe --config=InFd:none | 
	       ssh remotehost debconf-copydb pipe configdb 
		       --config=Name:pipe --config=Driver:Pipe

       This uses the special purpose pipe driver to copy a database to a remote system.

SEE ALSO

       debconf.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

								    2011-06-22							 DEBCONF-COPYDB(1)

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DEBCONF-GETLANG(1)						      Debconf							DEBCONF-GETLANG(1)

NAME

       debconf-getlang - extract a language from a templates file

SYNOPSIS

	debconf-getlang lang master [translation]
	debconf-getlang --stats master translation [...]

DESCRIPTION

       Note: This utility is deprecated; you should switch to using the po-debconf package.

       This program helps make and manage translations of debconf templates.  There are basically three situations in which this program might be
       called:

       A translation is just being started.
	   You want to provide the translator with a file they can work on that has the English fields from your templates file, plus blank Field-
	   ll fields for the target language that they can fill in.

	   To do this, run the program with first parameter being the code for the language that is being translated to, and the second parameter
	   being the filename of the English templates file.

       A translation is well under way.
	   You have changed some English text, or added more items to your templates file, and you want to send the translators a file with the
	   English text plus their current translations (or you are the translator, and you want to generate such a file for your own use).

	   To accomplish this, run the program with the first parameter being the the code for the language that is being translated to, the
	   second parameter being the filename of the master English templates file, and the third parameter being the filename of the current
	   translated file.

	   When run this way, the program is smart enough to notice fuzzy translations. For example a fuzzy Description will be output as
	   Description-<lang>-fuzzy, and a new, blank Description-<lang> will be added.  Translators should remove the -fuzzy fields as they
	   correct the fuzzy translations.

       Checking the status of a translation
	   To check the status of a translation, use the --status flag, and pass the english template file as the first parameter, and all the
	   other translated templates after that. It will output statistics for each of them. For example:

	     debconf-getlang --stats debian/templates debian/templates.*

NOTE

       Note that the text in the generated templates may be word-wrapped by debconf.

SEE ALSO

       debconf-mergetemplate(1)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

								    2012-09-10							DEBCONF-GETLANG(1)
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