dupdp-admin(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so dupdb-admin — she's the girl who manages the duplicate database for apport-retrace. that's the whole job description, bestie 💅

(this page lives in section 1 of the General Commands Manual, and if you squint at the header it says dupdp-admin(1) — we are not gonna talk about it, the NAME section knows the truth 🫶)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dupdb-admin -f dbpath dump

dupdb-admin -f dbpath changeid oldid newid

dupdb-admin -f dbpath publish path

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so apport-retrace(1) can check for duplicate bugs (amongst other things, she contains multitudes 💜). to keep track of master bugs she uses an SQLite database, and dupdb-admin is the tiny little tool that manages that database. main character energy but make it small ✨

the central concept in that database is a "crash signature" — a string that uniquely identifies a particular crash. it's built from three things:

• the executable path name
• the signal number or the exception name
• the topmost functions of the stack trace

the database maps crash signatures to the 'master' crash id, which means it can close duplicate crash reports with a reference to that master ID. slay, no cap. 🎀

it also tracks the status of crashes (open / fixed in a particular version) so it can identify regressions. it's giving record-keeper, it's giving historian 🌸

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💫 MODES 💫

• dump — print a list of all the database entries. the whole vibe check, every row, no skips 👑
• changeid — change the associated crash ID for a particular crash. one lil glow-up for one lil crash 💅
• publish — export the duplicate database into a set of text files in the given directory, which is suitable for WWW publishing. if the directory already exists, it will be updated. the new content is built in a new directory which is the given one with .new appended, then moved to the given name in an almost atomic way. so glamorous, so careful 🦋

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🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

• -f path, --database-file=path — path to the duplicate database SQLite file. that's it, that's the option, she's lowkey the only one and she knows it 💖

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

apport and the accompanying tools are developed by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>. icon, legend, built different fr fr 🫶

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and that's the whole page babes — written by Martin Pitt back on August 01, 2007, living in section 1 of the General Commands Manual as dupdb-admin(1). periodt 💅✨🌈