Author: schoenfeld
Date: 2009-07-20 15:06:24 +0000 (Mon, 20 Jul 2009)
New Revision: 1927
Modified:
trunk/debian/changelog
trunk/scripts/dget.pl
Log:
dch: Make it clear in manpage and usage information, that dget is capable
of processing several URLs or packages
(Closes: #535977)
Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog 2009-07-16 20:51:22 UTC (rev 1926)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog 2009-07-20 15:06:24 UTC (rev 1927)
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
devscripts (2.10.53) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ [ Adam D. Barratt ]
* checkbashisms: Detect the use of "source" when the sourced filename
contains a tilde (Closes: #528592) or consists of a single character
(Closes: #535252). Thanks, Raphael Geissert and Ryan Niebur.
@@ -18,8 +19,13 @@
+ When using curl, follow redirects by default. (Also from the Ubuntu
patch).
- -- Adam D. Barratt <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:43:43 +0100
+ [ Patrick Schoenfeld ]
+ * dch: Make it clear in manpage and usage information, that dget is capable
+ of processing several URLs or packages
+ (Closes: #535977)
+ -- Patrick Schoenfeld <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:05:01 +0200
+
devscripts (2.10.52) unstable; urgency=low
* debdiff: Make --diffstat work again; accidentally broken in 2.10.48.
Modified: trunk/scripts/dget.pl
===================================================================
--- trunk/scripts/dget.pl 2009-07-16 20:51:22 UTC (rev 1926)
+++ trunk/scripts/dget.pl 2009-07-20 15:06:24 UTC (rev 1927)
@@ -56,11 +56,12 @@
sub usage {
print <<"EOT";
-Usage: $progname [options] URL
+Usage: $progname [options] URL ...
$progname [options] package[=version]
-Downloads Debian packages (source and binary) from the specified URL (first
form),
+Downloads Debian packages (source and binary) from the specified URLs (first
form),
or using the mirror configured in /etc/apt/sources.list(.d) (second form).
+It is capable of downloading several packages at once.
-b, --backup Move files that would be overwritten to ./backup
-q, --quiet Suppress wget/curl output
@@ -481,7 +482,7 @@
=over
-=item B<dget> [I<options>] I<URL>
+=item B<dget> [I<options>] I<URL> ...
=item B<dget> [I<options>] I<package>[=I<version>]
@@ -490,7 +491,7 @@
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<dget> downloads Debian packages. In the first form, B<dget> fetches
-the requested URL. If this is a .dsc or .changes file, then B<dget>
+the requested URLs. If this is a .dsc or .changes file, then B<dget>
acts as a source-package aware form of B<wget>: it also fetches any
files referenced in the .dsc/.changes file. The downloaded source is
then unpacked by B<dpkg-source>.
@@ -502,6 +503,9 @@
download dependencies. If a version number is specified, this version
of the package is requested.
+In both cases dget is capable of getting several packages and/or URLs
+at once.
+
(Note that I<.udeb> packages used by debian-installer are located in separate
packages files from I<.deb> packages. In order to use I<.udebs> with B<dget>,
you will need to have configured B<apt> to use a packages file for
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