ctan-o-mat

CTAN-O-MAT(1)                   Gerd Neugebauer                  CTAN-O-MAT(1)

NAME
       ctan-o-mat - Validate and upload a package for CTAN

SYNOPSIS
       ctan-o-mat [options] [<package configuration>]

DESCRIPTION
       This program can be used to automate the upload of a package to the
       Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (https://www.ctan.org). The
       description of the package is taken from a configuration file. Thus it
       can be updated easily without the need to fill a Web form with the same
       old information again and again.

       The provided information is validated in any case. If the validation
       succeeds and not only the validation is requested then the provided
       archive file is placed in the incoming area of the CTAN for further
       processing by the CTAN team.

       In any case any finding during the validation is reported at the end of
       the processing. Note that the validation is the default and a official
       submission has to be requested by the an appropriate command line
       option.

       ctan-o-mat requires an Internet connection to the CTAN server. Even the
       validation retrieves the known attributes and the basic constraints
       from the server.

CONFIGURATION
       The default configuration is read from a file with the same name as the
       current directory an the extension .pkg. This file name can be
       overwritten on the command line.

       The configuration depends on the features currently supported by the
       CTAN server.  Since these features can change over time the
       configuration is not hard-coded in ctan-o-mat. You can request an empty
       template of the configuration via the command line parameter "--init".

OPTIONS
       -h
       --help
           Print this short summary about the usage and exit the program.

       -i
       --init
           Create an empty template for a configuration.

       --list licenses
           List the known licenses of CTAN to the standard output stream.
           Each license is represented as one line. The line contains the
           fields key, name, free indicator. Those fields are separated by tab
           characters.  Afterwards the program terminates without processing
           any further arguments.

       --config <package configuration>
       --pkg <package configuration>
       --package <package configuration>
           Set the package configuration file.

       -s
       --submit
           Upload the submission, validate it and officially submit it to CTAN
           it the validation succeeds.

       -v
       --verbose
           Print some more information during the processing (verbose mode).

       --version
           Print the version number of this program and exit.

       --validate
       -n
       --noaction
           Do not perform the final upload. The package is validated and the
           resulting messages are printed.

       <package>
           This parameter is the name of a package configuration (see section
           CONFIGURATION) contained in a file.  If not set otherwise the
           package configuration defaults to the name of the current directory
           with ".pkg" appended.

ENVIRONMENT
       The following environment variables are recognized by ctan-o-mat.

       CTAN_O_MAT_URL
           The value is the URL prefix for the CTAN server to be contacted.
           The default is "https://ctan.org/submit". The complete URL is
           constructed by appending "validate", "upload", or "fields" to use
           the respective CTAN REST API.

CONNECTING VIA PROXIES
       If you need to connect to the Internet via a proxy then this can be
       achieved by setting some environment variables before running ctan-o-
       mat.  To redirect the request via the proxy simply define an
       environment variable "http_proxy" to point to the proxy host --
       including protocol and port as required. Note that the name of the
       environment variable is supposed to be in lower case.

AUTHOR
       Gerd Neugebauer (gene@gerd-neugebauer.de)

BUGS
       o   The program can not be used without a working connection to the
           Internet.

ctan-o-mat                        2017-11-23                     CTAN-O-MAT(1)