NAME

bpkg-help - show help for a command or help topic

SYNOPSIS

bpkg help [command | topic]

DESCRIPTION

Show the detailed help for command or help topic or a summary of available commands and topics if none was specified.

COMMON OPTIONS

The common options are summarized below with a more detailed description available in bpkg-common-options(1).

-v: Print essential underlying commands being executed.
-V: Print all underlying commands being executed.
--quiet|-q: Run quietly, only printing error messages.
--verbose level: Set the diagnostics verbosity to level between 0 and 6.
--stdout-format format: Representation format to use for printing to stdout.
--jobs|-j num: Number of jobs to perform in parallel.
--no-result: Don't print informational messages about the outcome of performing a command or some of its parts.
--structured-result fmt: Write the result of performing a command in a structured form.
--progress: Display progress indicators for long-lasting operations, such as network transfers, building, etc.
--no-progress: Suppress progress indicators for long-lasting operations, such as network transfers, building, etc.
--diag-color: Use color in diagnostics.
--no-diag-color: Don't use color in diagnostics.
--build path: The build program to be used to build packages.
--build-option opt: Additional option to be passed to the build program.
--fetch path: The fetch program to be used to download resources.
--fetch-option opt: Additional option to be passed to the fetch program.
--fetch-timeout sec: The fetch and fetch-like (for example, git) program timeout.
--pkg-proxy url: HTTP proxy server to use when fetching package manifests and archives from remote pkg repositories.
--git path: The git program to be used to fetch git repositories.
--git-option opt: Additional common option to be passed to the git program.
--sha256 path: The sha256 program to be used to calculate SHA256 sums.
--sha256-option opt: Additional option to be passed to the sha256 program.
--tar path: The tar program to be used to extract package archives.
--tar-option opt: Additional option to be passed to the tar program.
--openssl path: The openssl program to be used for crypto operations.
--openssl-option opt: Additional option to be passed to the openssl program.
--auth type: Types of repositories to authenticate.
--trust fingerprint: Trust repository certificate with a SHA256 fingerprint.
--trust-yes: Assume the answer to all authentication prompts is yes.
--trust-no: Assume the answer to all authentication prompts is no.
--git-capabilities up=pc: Protocol capabilities (pc) for a git repository URL prefix (up).
--pager path: The pager program to be used to show long text.
--pager-option opt: Additional option to be passed to the pager program.
--options-file file: Read additional options from file.
--default-options dir: The directory to load additional default options files from.
--no-default-options: Don't load default options files.
--keep-tmp: Don't remove the bpkg's temporary directory at the end of the command execution and print its path at the verbosity level 2 or higher.

DEFAULT OPTIONS FILES

See bpkg-default-options-files(1) for an overview of the default options files. For the help command the following options files are searched for only in the predefined directories (home, system, etc) and, if found, loaded in the order listed:

bpkg.options
bpkg-help.options

BUGS

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COPYRIGHT

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the MIT License.