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| author | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2026-10-16 15:57:25 -0400 |
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| committer | B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk> | 2026-10-16 15:57:25 -0400 |
| commit | c56761712ff98a3572c75d81042e9a0609f81311 (patch) | |
| tree | 121ac849dfcf3ee7a9e37901878ba59945bb14a2 | |
| parent | 2c3c84366d7fc9fe89fe59e68cf46474a69c15c3 (diff) | |
| download | greypool-c56761712ff98a3572c75d81042e9a0609f81311.tar.gz | |
Add FILES section to the docs.
| -rwxr-xr-x | greypool | 42 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ the usual way, and each non-comment line consists of a key, followed by one or more values. If there are multiple values, separate them with spaces. -=head2 Config file keys +=head2 Config File Keys =over 4 @@ -805,6 +805,46 @@ B<greypool> uses B<wget>(1) to talk to the repology.org API. This is a deliberate design choice, to avoid the long chain of perl dependencies required for libwww-perl. +=head1 FILES + +=over 4 + +=item B<~/.greypool/> + +The default config directory. Can be changed with the B<-C> / +B<--config-dir> option. The rest of the files listed here are relative +to this path. + +=item B<config> + +The config file, which at minimum sets the default email address and +repository to check. See the B<CONFIG FILE> section, above. + +=item B<wgetrc> + +When B<greypool> runs B<wget>, it uses this file instead of the +default B<~/.wgetrc>. If this file doesn't exist, B<greypool> will +create it, with default settings for a custom user agent and with gzip +compression enabled. Ideally, you shouldn't need to change anything +here, but it's available if needed. + +=item B<cache/> + +Contains one cache directory per email address that's been checked. + +=item B<cache/>I<email-address>B</*.json> + +The cached JSON files, downloaded from the repology.org API. These +are named B<1.json>, B<2.json>, etc. + +=item B<cache/>I<email-address>B</stamp> + +The date the B<*.json> files were downloaded. B<greypool> will only +use the cached files if the current date matches this, otherwise +they're considered expired and will be re-downloaded. + +=back + =head1 AUTHOR B. Watson <urchlay@slackware.uk>, aka Urchlay on Libera IRC. |
