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aptitude-robot(8)


NAME

   aptitude-robot - automate package choice management

SYNOPSIS

   aptitude-robot [options]

   aptitude-robot --help

DESCRIPTION

   aptitude-robot uses configuration files to install and remove Debian
   software packages automatically.  This allows hands-off setup and
   maintenance of workstations and servers.  Create package lists in a
   development environment and copy the package lists over to the
   production machines.  aptitude-robot will then make sure that the
   packages mentioned in the lists are installed or removed as indicated.

OPTIONS

   --force-install
       give priority to install(+), remove(-), and purge(_) actions over
       keep(:) and hold(=)

   --config-dir /path/to/config/dir
       specify an alternate configuration directory.  Defaults to
       /etc/aptitude-robot

   --show-cmdline
       only show the command that would be executed

   --help
       Prints this page.

   other options
       any option not recognized by aptitude-robot itself is passed
       through to aptitude.  The options -q and -s are likely to be used
       occasionally.  See aptitude(8) for details.

CONFIGURATION

   The configuration directory given by the "--config-dir" (or
   /etc/aptitude-robot by default) must contain a directory named
   pkglist.d.  This directory may have several package list files that are
   chosen according to the criteria of run-parts(8).  They are
   concatenated in the order given by run-parts(8).

   Each line shall contain an action and a package name separated by white
   space.  The actions are those used by the "aptitude" command line
   interface (see aptitude documentation).  Typically they are:

   +  package  # install package

   +M package  # install package and mark it as automatically installed

   -  package  # remove package

   _  package  # purge package

   :  package  # keep package at current version

   =  package  # mark a package as "hold", i.e., prevent automatic updates

   If a package is mentioned several times the last entry will determine
   the action.  If the "--force-install" option is given the keep(:) and
   hold(=) actions are given lower priority, i.e., the appear only when no
   other action for the package is specified.

   A "#" character starts a comment extending to the end of line.  Empty
   lines or extra white space at the beginning or end of line is ignored.

   Optionally the configuration directory may contain a file name options
   containing extra options given to aptitude in the form of one option
   per line.

   Optionally the configuration directory may contain two directories
   triggers.pre and triggers.post with scripts that are executed by
   run-parts(8) before and after aptitude respectively.

SEE ALSO

   aptitude(8), aptitude-robot-session(8)

AUTHORS

   Elmar S. Heeb <elmar@heebs.ch> and Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>



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