MERGEREPO_C(8)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so mergerepo_c — that's the command, and this is its section 8 manual page — and it does exactly one iconic thing: Merge multiple rpm-md format repositories together. 💖

that's it. that's the whole job. she takes a bunch of repos and she fuses them. main character energy fr fr. 👑

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

mergerepo_c [options] --repo repo1 --repo repo2

like, you literally just point her at two repos and she goes. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --version — shows the program's version number and then dips out. bye bestie 🫶
• -r, --repo REPOS — the repo url. this is the whole point of the program, so, y'know, use it. 🍓
• --repo-prefix-search OLD_PREFIX — the repository prefix that's gonna get replaced by NEW_PREFIX. out with the old. 💀
• --repo-prefix-replace NEW_PREFIX — the repository prefix URL that OLD_PREFIX gets swapped out for. in with the new. ✨
• -a, --archlist ARCHLIST — defaults to all arches — otherwise you specify which arches you actually want. your call, boo.
• -d, --database
• --no-database
• -v, --verbose

(yeah those three just vibe there with no description in the original, so no lore for you, sorry 🙈 just know they exist and they're doing their thing.)

• -o, --outputdir OUTPUTDIR — the location to create the repository. where the magic gets written to disk. 📁
• --nogroups — do not merge group (comps) metadata. skipping the groups, no groups today. 🚫
• --noupdateinfo — do not merge updateinfo metadata. same energy, different metadata. 🚫
• --compress-type COMPRESS_TYPE — which compression type to use. pick your fighter. 🎀
• --zck — generate zchunk files as well as the standard repodata. so you get both, greedy, love that for you. 🔥
• --zck-dict-dir ZCK_DICT_DIR — directory containing compression dictionaries for use by zchunk. it's giving prepared. 💅
• --method MERGE_METHOD — specify the merge method for packages with the same name and arch. this is the how do we break the tie setting, and the available merge methods are:
  • repo — (default) select package from the first specified repository. first come, first served, no cap.
  • nvr — select package with the higher version and release. newest-ish wins. 👑
  • ts — select package with the newest timestamp. time is a flat circle but the timestamp isn't. ⭐
• --all — include all packages with the same name and arch if version or release is different.

⚠️ heads up bestie: if used, the --method argument is ignored! like, fully ignored. don't come crying to me. 😭

• --noarch-repo URL — packages with noarch architecture will be replaced by a package from this repo, if it exists in it. conditional queen. 🦋
• --unique-md-filenames — include the file's checksum in the metadata filename, which helps HTTP caching. this is the default, so she's already doing this unless you tell her not to. 🌸
• --simple-md-filenames — do not include the file's checksum in the metadata filename. the anti-unique option. 🙈
• --omit-baseurl — don't add a baseurl to packages that don't have one before. if she didn't have one, she still won't. 💜
• -k, --koji — enable koji mergerepos behaviour. (you can optionally select simple mode with: --simple) 🔥
• --simple — enable koji-specific simple merge mode where we keep even packages with identical NEVRAs.

💀 only works in combination with --koji/-k. it cannot fly solo.

• --pkgorigins — enable standard mergerepos behavior while also providing the pkgorigins file for koji. doing both, because she can. ✨
• --arch-expand — add multilib architectures for the specified archlist and expand all of them.

🌈 only works in combination with --archlist. them's the rules.

• -g, --groupfile GROUPFILE — path to groupfile to include in metadata. 🎀
• -b, --blocked FILE — a file containing a list of srpm names to exclude from the merged repo.

🚫 only works in combination with --koji/-k. blocked means blocked.

and that's the whole page bestie, go forth and merge, you're gonna eat 💅

signing off from the MERGEREPO_C(8) manual, dated 2020-04-29 — ily, drink water, read your manpages 💖✨🎀🦋🌸🫶