first.rst

Notes

• Please be careful: dak sends out a lot of emails and if not configured properly will happily send them to lots of people who probably didn't want those emails.
• Don't use the debian dak.conf, cron.* etc. as starting points for your own configuration files; they are highly Debian specific. Start from scratch and refer to the security.debian.org config files (-security) as they're a better example for a private archive.

What do all these scripts do?

Generic and generally useful

• To process queue/:
  • dak process-upload - processes queue/unchecked
  • dak process-new - allows ftp administrator to process queue/new and queue/byhand
  • dak process-policy - processes policy queues (including new and byhand)
• To generate indices files:
  • dak dominate - removes obsolete packages from suites
  • dak generate-packages-sources2 - generate Packages, Sources
  • dak generate-releases - generates Release
• To clean things up:
  • dak clean-suites - to remove obsolete files from the pool
  • dak clean-queues - to remove obsolete/stray files from the queue
  • dak rm - to remove package(s) from suite(s)
  • dak override - to change individual override entries
• Information display:
  • dak ls - shows information about package(s)
  • dak queue-report - shows information about package(s) in queue/
  • dak override - can show you individual override entries
  • dak graph - creates some pretty graphs of queue sizes over time

Generic and useful, but only for those with existing archives

• dak init-archive - initializes a projectb database from an existing archive

Generic but not overly useful (in normal use)

• dak import-users-from-passwd - sync PostgreSQL users with system users
• dak cruft-report - check for obsolete or duplicated packages
• dak init-dirs - directory creation in the initial setup of an archive
• dak check-archive - various sanity checks of the database and archive
• dak control-overrides - manipulates/lists override entries
• dak control-suite - removes/adds/lists package(s) from/to/for a suite
• dak stats - produces various statistics
• dak find-null-maintainers - checks for users with no packages in the archive

Semi-generic

To generate less-used indices files:

• dak make-maintainers - generates Maintainers file used by, e.g. debbugs
• dak make-overrides - generates override.<foo> files

Mostly Debian(.org) specific

• dak security-install - wrapper for Debian security team
• dak import-ldap-fingerprints - syncs fingerprint and uid information with a debian.org LDAP DB

Very Incomplete or otherwise not generally useful

• dak init-db - currently only initializes a DB from a dak.conf config file
• dak check-overrides - override cruft checker that doesn't work well with New Incoming

Scripts invoked by other scripts

• dak examine-package - invoked by 'dak process-new' to "check" NEW packages

How do I get started?

Please refer to setup/development.rst for instructions on how to set up dak.