diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a65e7de..e555a08 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,59 +1,67 @@
 SWH-lister
 ============
 
 The Software Heritage Lister is both a library module to permit to
 centralize lister behaviors, and to provide lister implementations.
 
 Actual lister implementations are:
 
 - swh-lister-debian
 - swh-lister-github
 - swh-lister-bitbucket
 
 Licensing
 ----------
 
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
 Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
 version.
 
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
 WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
 PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 
 See top-level LICENSE file for the full text of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program.
 
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
 
 - python3
 - python3-requests
 - python3-sqlalchemy
 
 More details in requirements*.txt
 
 
 Local deployment
 -----------
 
+## lister-github
+
 1. git clone under $GHLISTER_ROOT (of your choosing)
 2. mkdir ~/.config/swh/ ~/.cache/swh/lister/github.com/
 3. create configuration file ~/.config/swh/lister-github.com.yml
+4. Bootstrap the db instance schema
+
+``` sh
+$ createdb lister-github.com
+$ bin/ghlister --db-url postgres:///lister-github.com createdb
+```
 
 Configuration file samples
 -------------------------
 
 ## github
 
 cat ~/.config/swh/lister-github.com.yml
 
     # see http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/engines.html#database-urls
     db_url: postgres:///lister-github.com
     credentials:
       - username: foobar
         password: quux
     cache_response: yes
     cache_dir: /home/zack/.cache/swh/lister/github.com/
diff --git a/bin/ghlister b/bin/ghlister
index 594f138..d8e6cf5 100755
--- a/bin/ghlister
+++ b/bin/ghlister
@@ -1,101 +1,103 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python3
 
 # Copyright (C) 2015  Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 import argparse
 import logging
 import sys
 
 from swh.lister.github import models
 from swh.lister.github.lister import GitHubLister
 
 DEFAULT_CONF = {
     'cache_dir':  './cache',
     'log_dir':    './log',
     'cache_json': 'False',
 }
 
 
 def int_interval(s):
     """parse an "N-M" string as an interval.
 
     Return an (N,M) int (or None) pair
 
     """
     def not_an_interval():
         raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError('not an interval: ' + s)
 
     def parse_int(s):
         if s:
             return int(s)
         else:
             return None
 
     if '-' not in s:
         not_an_interval()
     parts = s.split('-')
     if len(parts) > 2:
         not_an_interval()
     return tuple([parse_int(p) for p in parts])
 
 
 def parse_args():
     cli = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         description='list GitHub repositories and load them into a DB')
     cli.add_argument('--db-url', '-d', metavar='SQLALCHEMY_URL',
                      help='SQLAlchemy DB URL (override conffile); see '
                      '<http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/core/engines.html#database-urls>')  # NOQA
     cli.add_argument('--verbose', '-v', action='store_true',
                      help='be verbose')
 
     subcli = cli.add_subparsers(dest='action')
     subcli.add_parser('createdb', help='initialize DB')
     subcli.add_parser('dropdb', help='destroy DB')
 
     list_cli = subcli.add_parser('list', help='list repositories')
     list_cli.add_argument('interval',
                           type=int_interval,
                           help='interval of repository IDs to list, '
                           'in N-M format; either N or M can be omitted.')
 
     list_cli = subcli.add_parser('catchup',
                                  help='catchup with new repos since last time')
 
     args = cli.parse_args()
 
     if not args.action:
         cli.error('no action given')
 
     return args
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)  # XXX
 
     args = parse_args()
 
     override_conf = {}
     if args.db_url:
         override_conf['lister_db_url'] = args.db_url
 
-    lister = GitHubLister(override_conf)
+    lister = GitHubLister(lister_name='github.com',
+                          api_baseurl='https://api.github.com',
+                          override_config=override_conf)
 
     if args.action == 'createdb':
-        models.SQLBase.metadata.create_all(lister.db_engine)
+        models.ModelBase.metadata.create_all(lister.db_engine)
     elif args.action == 'dropdb':
-        models.SQLBase.metadata.drop_all(lister.db_engine)
+        models.ModelBase.metadata.drop_all(lister.db_engine)
     elif args.action == 'list':
         lister.fetch(min_id=args.interval[0],
                      max_id=args.interval[1])
     elif args.action == 'catchup':
         last_known_id = lister.last_repo_id()
         if last_known_id is not None:
             logging.info('catching up from last known repo id: %d' %
                          last_known_id)
             lister.fetch(min_id=last_known_id + 1,
                          max_id=None)
         else:
             logging.error('Cannot catchup: no last known id found. Abort.')
             sys.exit(2)