---
name: "sympa-upgrade-shared"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "sympa"
version: "6.2.76~dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/sympa-upgrade-shared"
---

# sympa-upgrade-shared(1)

Migrating shared repository created by earlier versions

## NAME

sympa-upgrade-shared - Migrating shared repository created by earlier versions

## SYNOPSIS

```
  sympa upgrade shared LISTNAME@DOMAIN [ --fix_qencode ]
  sympa upgrade shared * [ --fix_qencode ]
```

## DESCRIPTION

`" sympa upgrade shared"` renames file names in shared repositories that may be incorrectly encoded because of previous Sympa versions.

- •

  As of Sympa 5.3a.8, file names in shared repository are Q-encoded, therefore made easier to store on any filesystem with any encoding.

- •

  As of Sympa 6.1b.5,  Encoding of shared documents was not consistent with recent version of MIME::EncWords module: **MIME::EncWords::encode\_mimewords()** used to encode characters `"-!*+/"`. Now these characters are preserved, according to RFC 2047 section 5. We had to change encoding of shared documents according to new algorithm.

## OPTIONS

- LISTNAME@DOMAIN \| "\*"

  Specifies target list(s).

- \--fix\_qencode

  If specified, fixes Q-encoding changed on Sympa 6.1b.5. Otherwise, applies Q-encoding introduced by Sympa 5.3a.8.

## HISTORY

upgrade\_shared\_repository.pl appeared as separate executable on Sympa 6.2.17.

Its function was moved to `"sympa upgrade shared"` on Sympa 6.2.71b.