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chdist(1)



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: $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 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

   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 DISTributions

   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 DISTs

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.



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