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system

This is the primary system-wide database location, intended for use by operating system vendors distributing database files in the native package format.

local

This is the secondary system-wide database location, intended for use by system administrators wishing to provide an updated database for all users.

user

This is the user private database location, intended for use by unprivileged local users wishing to provide applications they use with an updated database.

If run by a privileged account (ie root), the local database location will be used by default, otherwise the user location will be used.

If no ARCHIVE-FILE path is given, an automatically generated filename will be used, taking the format osinfo-db-$VERSION.tar.xz.

OPTIONS

--user

Override the default behaviour to force archiving files from the user database location.

--local

Override the default behaviour to force archiving files from the local database location.

--system

Override the default behaviour to force archiving files from the system database location.

--dir=PATH

Override the default behaviour to force archiving files from the custom directory PATH.

--root=PATH

Prefix the database location with the root directory given by "PATH". This is useful when wishing to archive files that are in a chroot environment or equivalent.

--version=VERSION

Set the version string for the files in the archive to VERSION. If this argument is not given, the version will be set to the current date in the format YYYYMMDD.

--license=LICENSE-FILE

Add "LICENSE-FILE" to the generated archive as an entry named "LICENSE".

-v, --verbose

Display verbose progress information when archiving files

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