SYNCPACKAGE(1)

💖 SYNCPACKAGE(1) — the group chat edition 💖

okay bestie, this is syncpackage from the General Commands Manual section 1, and she is the girl for moving source packages from Debian to Ubuntu. let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

syncpackage — copy source packages from Debian to Ubuntu 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

syncpackage [options] <.dsc URL/path or package name(s)>

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically, syncpackage causes one or more source package(s) to be copied from Debian to Ubuntu. that's the whole vibe. 👑

and here's the cute part: syncpackage allows you to upload files with the same checksums of the Debian ones, exactly like the common script used by Ubuntu archive administrators does. so you can preserve source files integrity between the two distributions. integrity? preserved. periodt. 💖

syncpackage will also detect source tarballs with mismatching checksums, and can perform fake syncs. she's observant like that. 🔍

🚨 WARNING 🚨

bestie. listen. the use of syncpackage --no-lp, which generates a changes file to be directly uploaded to the Ubuntu primary archive or a PPA, is discouraged by the Ubuntu Archive Administrators, because it introduces an unnecessary window for error. 😭

this only exists for backward compatibility, for unusual corner cases (such as fakesyncs), and for uploads to archives other than the Ubuntu primary archive. it's giving "we kept it for the lore".

omitting this option will cause Launchpad to perform the sync request directly, which is the preferred method for uploads to the Ubuntu primary archive. so like… do that one. ✨

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⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -h, --help — Show help message and exit. the classic. 🫶
• -d DIST, --distribution=DIST — Debian distribution to sync from. Default is unstable. (living dangerously, love that for you)
• -r RELEASE, --release=RELEASE — Specify target Ubuntu release. Default: current development release. 🎀
• -V DEBVERSION, --debian-version=DEBVERSION — Specify the version to sync from.
• -c COMPONENT, --component=COMPONENT — Specify the component to sync from.
• -b BUG, --bug=BUG — Mark a Launchpad bug as being fixed by this upload. bug girlies rise 💀
• -s USERNAME, --sponsor=USERNAME — Sponsor the sync for USERNAME (a Launchpad username).
• -v, --verbose — Display more progress information. she's chatty and we love her 🌈
• -F, --fakesync — Perform a fakesync, to work around a tarball mismatch between Debian and Ubuntu. This option ignores blocklisting, and performs a local sync. It implies --no-lp, and will leave a signed .changes file for you to upload.
• -f, --force — Force sync over the top of Ubuntu changes. no cap, it's forceful 💅
• --no-conf — Do not read any configuration files, or configuration from environment variables. closed off. mysterious. 🖤
• -l INSTANCE, --lpinstance=INSTANCE — Launchpad instance to connect to (default: production).
• --simulate — Show what would be done, but don't actually do it. window shopping fr fr 🛍️

🧚 LOCAL SYNC PREPARATION OPTIONS 🧚

Options that only apply when using --no-lp:

• --no-lp — Construct sync locally, rather than letting Launchpad copy the package directly. It will leave a signed .changes file for you to upload. See the WARNING above. 👀 (yes, that warning)
• -n UPLOADER_NAME, --uploader-name=UPLOADER_NAME — Use UPLOADER_NAME as the name of the maintainer for this upload instead of evaluating DEBFULLNAME and UBUMAIL. This option may only be used in --no-lp mode.
• -e UPLOADER_EMAIL, --uploader-email=UPLOADER_EMAIL — Use UPLOADER_EMAIL as the email address of the maintainer for this upload instead of evaluating DEBEMAIL and UBUMAIL. This option may only be used in --no-lp mode.
• -k KEYID, --key=KEYID — Specify the key ID to be used for signing. 🔑
• --dont-sign — Do not sign the upload.
• -d DEBIAN_MIRROR, --debian-mirror=DEBIAN_MIRROR — Use the specified mirror. Should be in the form http://ftp.debian.org/debian. If the package isn't found on this mirror, syncpackage will fall back to the default mirror.
• -s UBUNTU_MIRROR, --debsec-mirror=UBUNTU_MIRROR — Use the specified Debian security mirror. Should be in the form http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu. If the package isn't found on this mirror, syncpackage will fall back to the default mirror.

not me noticing that -d and -s each show up twice on this page 🙈 that's just how the page tells it, bestie. read the section you're in, iykyk.

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• DEBFULLNAME, DEBEMAIL, UBUMAIL — Used to determine the uploader (if not supplied as options). See ubuntu-dev-tools(5) for details. 📬

All of the CONFIGURATION VARIABLES below are also supported as environment variables. Variables in the environment take precedence to those in configuration files. environment stays winning, sorry to the config files. 💜

🎀 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES 🎀

The following variables can be set in the environment or in ubuntu-dev-tools(5) configuration files. In each case, the script-specific variable takes precedence over the package-wide variable. main character energy for the script-specific ones honestly.

• SYNCPACKAGE_DEBIAN_MIRROR, UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBIAN_MIRROR — The default value for --debian-mirror.
• SYNCPACKAGE_UBUNTU_MIRROR, UBUNTUTOOLS_DEBSEC_MIRROR — The default value for --ubuntu-mirror.
• SYNCPACKAGE_KEYID, UBUNTUTOOLS_KEYID — The default value for --key.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

requestsync(1), ubuntu-dev-tools(5)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

syncpackage was written by Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@canonical.com> and Benjamin Drung <bdrung@ubuntu.com>. icons. absolute icons. ✨

This manual page was written by Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@ubuntu.com>

Both are released under GNU General Public License, version 3. 📜

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okay that's the whole thing, bestie, go forth and sync responsibly 💖 this was ubuntu-dev-tools, June 2010 — the era, the moment, the legend. slay 🎀✨