4 o Please be careful: dak sends out lots of emails and if not
5 configured properly will happily send them to lots of people who
6 probably didn't want those emails.
8 o Don't use the debian dak.conf, cron.* etc. as starting
9 points for your own configuration files, they're highly Debian
10 specific. Start from scratch and refer to the security.debian.org
11 config files (-security) as they're a better example for a private
14 What do all these scripts do?
15 =============================
17 Generic and generally useful
18 ----------------------------
22 * dak process-upload - processes queue/unchecked
23 * dak process-new - allows ftp administrator to process queue/new and queue/byhand
24 * dak process-policy - processes policy queues (including new and byhand)
26 o To generate indices files:
28 * dak dominate - removes obsolete packages from suites
29 * dak generate-packages-sources2 - generate Packages, Sources
30 * dak generate-releases - generates Release
34 * dak clean-suites - to remove obsolete files from the pool
35 * dak clean-queues - to remove obsolete/stray files from the queue
36 * dak rm - to remove package(s) from suite(s)
37 * dak override - to change individual override entries
39 o Information display:
41 * dak ls - shows information about package(s)
42 * dak queue-report - shows information about package(s) in queue/
43 * dak override - can show you individual override entries
44 * dak graph - creates some pretty graphs of queue sizes over time
46 Generic and useful, but only for those with existing archives
47 -------------------------------------------------------------
49 o dak init-archive - initializes a projectb database from an exisiting archive
51 Generic but not overly useful (in normal use)
52 ---------------------------------------------
54 o dak import-users-from-passwd - sync PostgreSQL users with system users
55 o dak cruft-report - check for obsolete or duplicated packages
56 o dak init-dirs - directory creation in the initial setup of an archive
57 o dak check-archive - various sanity checks of the database and archive
58 o dak control-overrides - manpiulates/list override entries
59 o dak control-suite - removes/adds/lists package(s) from/to/for a suite
60 o dak stats - produces various statistics
61 o dak find-null-maintainers - checks for users with no packages in the archive
66 To generate less-used indices files:
68 o dak make-maintainers - generates Maintainers file used by, e.g. debbugs
69 o dak make-overrides - generates override.<foo> files
71 Mostly Debian(.org) specific
72 ----------------------------
74 o dak security-install - wrapper for Debian security team
75 o dak import-ldap-fingerprints - syncs fingerprint and uid information with a debian.org LDAP DB
77 Very Incomplete or otherwise not generally useful
78 -------------------------------------------------
80 o dak init-db - currently only initializes a DB from a dak.conf config file
81 o dak check-overrides - override cruft checker that doesn't work well with New Incoming
83 Scripts invoked by other scripts
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86 o dak examine-package - invoked by 'dak process-new' to "check" NEW packages
91 Please refer to setup/README for instructions how to setup dak.