Some usage examples:

aptate --update-rpms --config my-apt4rpm.xml

In case you updated your local repository (after copying rpms from CD e.g.), the following command will update your apt repository, but will not download/mirror rpm packages

aptate --noupdate-rpms

The configuration file can be checked on correctness by calling aptate with the --check.

aptate --check --config-file /usr/tmp/apt4rpm.xml