.. _repositories:

Setting up the package repositories
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In order to do its work, distro-tracker must know the repositiories to
watch. And among those you should define a default repository that will
be used in priority for package specific information.

With the admin web interface
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The repositories can be configured from the admin web interface which
is accessible as “/admin/” in the package tracker website. Make sure that
you create repositories with "sources" enabled as almost everything is based
on source packages.

With a fixture
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If you want to configure you package tracker to have all the repositories
like on tracker.debian.org, you can load a fixture::

   $ ./manage.py loaddata distro_tracker/core/fixtures/debian-repositories.xml 

Initial scan
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Once the repositories have been setup, you should run an initial scan::

    $ ./manage.py tracker_update_repositories

This might take a very long time...