metalink1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the metalink command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

metalink allows you to generate metalinks from a list of mirrors and a collection of files. The files are hashed and the resulting metalink is generated on the stdout.

Options

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h --help

Produce a help message

--version

Print out the name and version.

--md5

Generate metalink from md5sum file(s).

--addpath path

Append a path to the mirrors ('/' is not checked)

--headerfile arg

Include file after the root element declaration.

--nomirrors

Don't read mirrors from stdin

--hashlist

List hashes only (implies nomirrors)

--desc arg

Add metalink description

-d arg

Include given digest

--mindigests

Include: md5 sha1

--somedigests

Include: md5 sha1 ed2k

--alldigests

Include all possible digests

Supported algorithms are (-d options): md4 md5 sha1 sha256 sha384 sha512 rmd160 tiger crc32 ed2k gnunet sha1pieces

Mirror lists are single line definitions according to: [location [preference] [type] % ] mirror base url

Examples

http://example.com/ as a mirror: echo http://example.com | metalink -d md5 -d sha1 *

http://example.com/ as a mirror with preference and location: echo us 10 % http://example.com | metalink -d md5 -d sha1 *

http://example.com/ as a mirror with preference only: echo 0 10 % http://example.com | metalink -d md5 *