1. freight-cache(1)
2. Freight
3. freight-cache(1)

NAME

freight-cache - (re)builds package repositories

SYNOPSIS

freight cache [-k] [-g email] [-p passphrase file] [-c conf] [-v] [-h] [manager/distro][...]

DESCRIPTION

freight-cache converts each manager/distro given into a package repository (only Debian archives are supported currently). The manager indicates the type of repository (again, apt is the only supported value). The distro is an arbitrary string that should match a release of the target operating system (for example, "lenny" or "lucid"). If none are given, freight-cache converts all manager/distro pairs found in $VARLIB.

Packages are read from the Freight library ($VARLIB in the configuration, see freight(5)) and organized into a working repository in the Freight cache ($VARCACHE in the configuration).

Serving the repositories is left as an exercise for the reader. The Freight cache is the only directory that needs to be exposed, so create a virtual host with $VARCACHE as its document root and everything will be fine.

From version 0.0.8 onwards, distros in an APT repository no longer share the contents of the pool/. After upgrading to this version and running freight-cache for all your distros, it is safe and recommended to rm -rf $VARCACHE/pool/main to reset link counts to the proper value.

OPTIONS

-k, --keep

Keep unreferenced versions of packages. This is different than keeping multiple versions of a package in the repository, which is supported without any special options.

-g email, --gpg=email

Use an alternate GPG key. May be given multiple times.

-p passphrase file, --passphrase-file=passphrase file

Use an alternate file containing the GPG key passphrase. This file should obviously be protected and only readable by the user running Freight.

-a digest algorithm, --digest-algo=digest algorithm

Message digest algorithm that GPG should use to sign the repository, e.g SHA512

-c conf, --conf=conf

Use an alternate configuration file.

-v, --verbose

Verbose mode.

-h, --help

Show a help message.

FILES

/etc/freight.conf, ~/.freight.conf, etc/freight.conf, .freight.conf

The default configuration files. See freight(5).

$VARCACHE/pubkey.gpg

The exported public key used for signing each release.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

FREIGHT_CONF

The pathname of an alternate configuration file. See freight(5).

THEME SONG

The New Pornographers - "All the Old Showstoppers"

AUTHOR

Richard Crowley r@rcrowley.org

SEE ALSO

Part of freight(1).

freight-add(1) adds packages to the intermediate "Freight library" that is used by freight-cache to build the actual repositories.

2. March 2016
3. freight-cache(1)