apt-dater
Thomas Liske liske@ibh.de maintainer
2008-2014 IBH IT-Service GmbH [https://www.ibh.de/]
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Andre Ellguth ex-maintainer
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&dhpackage; terminal-based remote package update manager
`&dhpackage;` `[-(c config|v|[n]r)]`

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the `&dhpackage;` command.

`&dhpackage;` is a program to manage package updates on a large number of remote hosts using SSH.

## OPTIONS

`&dhpackage;` accepts the following command parameters:

`-c config`

  Use alternative config file. Default is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml.

`-v`

  Show apt-dater version and copyright statement.

`-r`

  Refresh hosts and create XML report on stdout. apt-dater must be compiled with XMLREPORT feature.

`-n`

  Prevent hosts to be refreshed before create XML report (useful for cronjobs which do not have access to SSH key(s)).

## ENVIRONMENT

`MAINTAINER`

  The maintainer's name (i.e. used by `debtrack`). If not set, the GECOS entry for the current user will be used. This environment variable could be forwarded to remote hosts with the ssh(1) SendEnv+AcceptEnv options.

## FILES

~/.config/apt-dater/apt-dater.xml

  The configuration file of apt-dater

~/.config/apt-dater/hosts.xml

  Contains all hosts you would like to manage

## SEE ALSO

apt-dater.xml(5), apt-get(1), debtrack, ssh(1), XDG Base Directory Specification.