REPO-ADD(8) | Pacman Manual | REPO-ADD(8) |
NAME
repo-add - package database maintenance utility
SYNOPSIS
repo-add [options] <path-to-db> <package> [<package> ...]
repo-remove [options] <path-to-db> <packagename> [<packagename> ...]
DESCRIPTION
repo-add and repo-remove are two scripts to help build a package database for packages built with makepkg(8) and installed with pacman(8).
repo-add will update a package database by reading a built package file. Multiple packages to add can be specified on the command line.
If a matching “.sig” file is found alongside a package file, the signature will automatically be embedded into the database.
repo-remove will update a package database by removing the package name specified on the command line. Multiple packages to remove can be specified on the command line.
A package database is a tar file, optionally compressed. Valid extensions are “.db” followed by an archive extension of “.tar”, “.tar.gz”, “.tar.bz2”, “.tar.xz”, or “.tar.Z”. The file does not need to exist, but all parent directories must exist.
COMMON OPTIONS
-q, --quiet
-s, --sign
-k, --key <key>
-v, --verify
--nocolor
REPO-ADD OPTIONS
-n, --new
-R, --remove
--include-sigs
EXAMPLE
repo-add foo.db.tar.xz <pkg1> [<pkg2> ...]
This creates two separate databases; a smaller database “foo.db.tar.xz” used by pacman and a large database containing package file lists “foo.files.tar.xz” for use by other utilities. While pacman can use the large database (if renamed with a db.tar* extension), there is currently no additional benefit for the larger download.
SEE ALSO
See the pacman website at https://archlinux.org/pacman/ for current information on pacman and its related tools.
BUGS
Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if we happen to be wrong, please report them to the issue tracker at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues with specific information such as your command-line, the nature of the bug, and even the package database if it helps.
AUTHORS
Current maintainers:
Past major contributors:
For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git repository.
2024-11-27 | Pacman 7.0.0 |