---
name: "mkdist"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnats"
version: "3.113-13"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mkdist"
---

# mkdist(8)

create a distribution of send-pr for outside users

## NAME

mkdist - create a distribution of **send-pr** for outside users

## SYNOPSIS

**mkdist** *directory* *release*

## DESCRIPTION

Builds a distribution of  **send-pr** so that users outside a support site can submit Problem Reports to the local **GNATS**. **mkdist** can be found in **/var/lib/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-bin**.

**mkdist** creates a directory *directory* from a template directory **/var/lib/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-dist** which contains a complete distribution of  **send-pr**. The default value for the **\>Release:** field in the template is *release*.

## FILES

Creates into  *directory* from **/var/lib/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-dist**:

- **COPYING**

  copyright information

- **INSTALL**

  installation notes

- **README**

  introductory notes

- **Makefile**

  Makefile

- **categories**

  current list of supported categories

- **install-sid.sh**

  Site-ID customization script, installed as **install-sid**

- **send-pr-el.in**

  Emacs Lisp facilities for sending problem reports, installed as **send-pr.el**

- **send-pr.sh**

  **send-pr** script, installed as **send-pr**

- **send-pr.man**

  man page, installed as  [**send-pr**(1)](/send-pr/1.md)

- **send-pr.info**

  GNU Info documentation

- **send-pr.texi**

  Documentation source code

- **texinfo.tex**

  Macros for formatting hard-copy documentation with TeX

## SEE ALSO

*Keeping Track: Managing Messages With GNATS* (also installed as the GNU Info file **gnats.info**) and *Reporting Problems Using send-pr* (also installed as the GNU Info file **send-pr.info**).

**gnats**(l), [**send-pr**(1)](/send-pr/1.md), [**query-pr**(1)](/query-pr/1.md), [**edit-pr**(1)](/edit-pr/1.md), [**file-pr**(8)](/file-pr/8.md), [**queue-pr**(8)](/queue-pr/8.md), [**rmcat**(8)](/rmcat/8.md), [**gen-index**(8)](/gen-index/8.md), [**mkcat**(8)](/mkcat/8.md).

## COPYING

Copyright (c) 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.