Warning: This has been unused for a long time and is therefore not supported by debtags any more.

Creating a custom tag source

You can add a custom tags source to /etc/debtags/sources.list or /etc/debtags/sources.list.d.

Quick tutorial:

create a directory /etc/debtags/personaltags

create the file /etc/debtags/personaltags/vocabulary adding some facets and tags. For example, you could use this:

      Facet: personal
      Description: Personal preference

      Tag: personal::essential
      Description: I cannot live without it

      Tag: personal::useful
      Description: Tried it and found it useful

      Tag: personal::bad
      Description: Tried it and did not like it

      Tag: personal::interesting
      Description: It looks interesting, but I have not tried it yet

create the file /etc/debtags/personaltags/tags-current adding some tag data. For example, you could use this:

      mmv: personal::essential
      mc: personal::essential
      xdiskusage: personal::essential
      buffy: personal::useful
      debtags: personal::interesting

gzip both files. You should then have /etc/debtags/personaltags/vocabulary.gz and /etc/debtags/personaltags/tags-current.gz
add the new tag source in a file inside /etc/debtags/sources.list.d:
```
      tags file:/etc/debtags/personaltags/
```
run update-apt-xapian-index

This is it. You should now be able to run software-center or packagesearch and find your own facets and tags.

Since new versions of debtags (>= 1.7.3), you can create a package that installs the tag data somewhere (say, in /usr/share/mydistro/tags) and installs a file under /etc/debtags/sources.list.d/ to automatically get debtags to use them.

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