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authorJavier Serrano Polo <javier@jasp.net>2016-08-19 02:10:55 +0200
committerGuillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>2016-10-30 04:43:31 +0100
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dpkg-scanpackages: Support scanning a single binary file
This makes it possible to pass a binary package pathname so that the tree does not need to be traversed. This also makes this command symetric with dpkg-scansources. Closes: #833964 Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
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diff --git a/man/dpkg-scanpackages.man b/man/dpkg-scanpackages.man
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dpkg\-scanpackages \- create Packages index files
.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dpkg\-scanpackages
-.RI [ option "...] " binary-dir
+.RI [ option "...] " binary-path
.RI [ override-file
.RI [ path-prefix ]]
.B >
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ files except on local access (i.e.
.B file://
sources).
.PP
-.I binary-dir
+.I binary-path
is the name of the tree of the binary packages to process (for example,
.BR contrib/binary\-i386 ).
It is best to make this relative to the root of the Debian archive,