Codebase list metche / 09227c2
Manual page corrections Micah Anderson 18 years ago
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4444 monitor:</Para>
4545 <ItemizedList>
4646 <ListItem>
47 <Para>one ore more user maintained changelog files,
47 <Para>one or more user maintained changelog files,
4848 </ListItem>
4949 <ListItem>
50 <Para>Debian packages states and versions.</Para>
50 <Para>the state of Debian packages and versions.</Para>
5151 </ListItem>
5252 </ItemizedList>
5353
54 <Para>metche should be installed with a cronjob regularly running to
54 <Para>metche should be installed with a cronjob that regularly runs to
5555 automatically save the system state as needed. These states are saved in a
56 way looking like the Debian development model:</Para>
56 way similar to the Debian development model:</Para>
5757 <ItemizedList>
5858 <ListItem>
5959 <Para><emphasis>unstable</emphasis> states are saved as soon as
9898 <VarListEntry><Term><command>report</command></Term>
9999 <ListItem>
100100 <Para>When run with the <command>report</command> command, metche
101 displays a report against a given saved state, if specified, or
102 against the latest testing state, otherwise. This is useful when you
101 displays a report against the specified saved state, or if unspecified,
102 against the latest testing state. This is useful when you
103103 have broken your system and want to know which changes have been made
104104 since a given, known working, system state.
105105 </ListItem>
107107 <VarListEntry><Term><command>list</command></Term>
108108 <ListItem>
109109 <Para>When run with the <command>list</command> command, metche
110 displays the full saved states list.</Para>
110 displays a list of all the saved states.</Para>
111111 </ListItem>
112112
113113 <VarListEntry><Term><command>stabilize</command></Term>
135135 </Para>
136136
137137 <Para>When configured to monitor one changelog,
138 <filename><envar>CHANGELOG_FLE</envar></filename> (default
138 <filename><envar>CHANGELOG_FILE</envar></filename> (default
139139 <filename>/root/Changelog</filename>).
140140 </Para>
141141
145145
146146 <Para>System states are saved in
147147 <filename><envar>BACKUP_DIR</envar></filename> (default
148 <filename>/var/lib/metche</filename>.</Para>
148 <filename>/var/lib/metche)</filename>.</Para>
149149 </refsect1>
150150
151151 <refsect1 id="security"><title>SECURITY</title>
152152 <Para>metche is able to use GnuPG to encrypt the email it sends, but does
153 not by default ; just enable the <envar>ENCRYPT_EMAIL</envar> configuration
153 not by default; just enable the <envar>ENCRYPT_EMAIL</envar> configuration
154154 option, and make sure <envar>EMAIL_ADDRESS</envar>' public key is in root's
155155 keyring, trusted enough to be used blindly by metche.</Para>
156156
170170
171171 <refsect1 id="bugs"><title>BUGS</title>
172172 <Para>See <ulink url="https://poivron.org/dev/metche/">metche's ticket
173 system</ulink> to see the bugs, missing features, and development
173 system</ulink> for known bugs, missing features, and the development
174174 road-map.</Para>
175175 </refsect1>
176176