APT-DATER(8)

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💖 APT-DATER 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to APT-DATER — that's the man page name, section 8, and the whole thing lives under the command apt-dater. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

apt-dater — a terminal-based remote package update manager 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

apt-dater [[-(c config|v|[n]r)]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this man page is the quick little rundown of the apt-dater command, fr fr.

apt-dater is a program that lets you manage package updates on a HUGE number of remote hosts, and it does it all over SSH. like, a whole fleet of machines. from your terminal. iconic behavior honestly 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

apt-dater takes these command parameters, bestie — every single one, no skipping:

  • -c config — use an alternative config file instead of the usual one. the default is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml. ✨
  • -v — show the apt-dater version and the copyright statement. slay, let them know who made it 🎀
  • -r — refresh hosts and create an XML report on stdout. lowkey important: apt-dater must be compiled with the XMLREPORT feature for this to even work. 💀
  • -n — stops hosts from being refreshed before the XML report gets created. super handy for cronjobs that don't have access to SSH key(s), so they can't refresh anything anyway. 🙈

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

  • MAINTAINER — the maintainer's name (like, it's used by debtrack, iykyk). if you don't set it, the GECOS entry for the current user gets used instead. fun fact: this environment variable can be forwarded to remote hosts with the ssh(1) SendEnv + AcceptEnv options. 🧚

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • ~/.config/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml — the configuration file of apt-dater ⭐
  • ~/.config/apt-dater/hosts.xml — contains all the hosts you would like to manage. yes, ALL of them 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

apt-dater.xml(5), apt-get(1), debtrack, ssh(1), XDG Base Directory Specification[1].

💫 AUTHORS 💫

  • Thomas Liske <liske@ibh.de> — maintainer 👑
  • Andre Ellguth — ex-maintainer 🌸

Copyright © 2008-2014 IBH IT-Service GmbH [https://www.ibh.de/]

📝 NOTES 📝

  1. XDG Base Directory Specification — http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec
k that's the whole page, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🫶

this little masterpiece is from the apt-dater manual, section APT-DATER(8), dated October 23, 2014. periodt. 💖✨

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