RMADISON
Section: (1)
Updated: 2016-07-25
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NAME
rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about packages
SYNOPSIS
- rmadison [OPTIONS] PACKAGE ...
-
DESCRIPTION
dak ls queries the Debian archive database (``projectb'') and
displays which package version is registered per architecture/component/suite.
The
CGI at
https://qa.debian.org/madison.php provides that service without
requiring
SSH access to ftp-master.debian.org or the mirror on
mirror.ftp-master.debian.org. This script,
rmadison, is a command line
frontend to this
CGI.
OPTIONS
- -a, --architecture=ARCH
-
only show info for ARCH(s)
- -b, --binary-type=TYPE
-
only show info for binary TYPE
- -c, --component=COMPONENT
-
only show info for COMPONENT(s)
- -g, --greaterorequal
-
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >= {highest version}' info
- -G, --greaterthan
-
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >> {highest version}' info
- -h, --help
-
show this help and exit
- -s, --suite=SUITE
-
only show info for this suite
- -s, --regex
-
treat PACKAGE as a regex
Note: Since -r can easily DoS the database (``-r .''), this option is not
supported by the CGI on qa.debian.org and most other installations.
- -S, --source-and-binary
-
show info for the binary children of source pkgs
- -t, --time
-
show projectb snapshot and reload time (not supported by all archives)
- -u, --url=URL[,URL ...]
-
use URL for the query. Supported shorthands are
debian or qa https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
debug http://debug.debian.net/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
ubuntu http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
udd https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
new https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=new
See the RMADISON_URL_MAP_ variable below for a method to add
new shorthands.
- --version
-
show version and exit
- --no-conf, --noconf
-
don't read the devscripts configuration files
ARCH, COMPONENT and SUITE can be comma (or space) separated lists, e.g.
--architecture=m68k,i386
CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
The two configuration files
/etc/devscripts.conf and
~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell in that order to set
configuration variables. Command line options can be used to override
configuration file settings. Environment variable settings are
ignored for this purpose. The currently recognised variables are:
- RMADISON_URL_MAP_SHORTHAND=URL
-
Add an entry to the set of shorthand URLs listed above. SHORTHAND should
be replaced with the shorthand form to be used to refer to URL.
Multiple shorthand entries may be specified by using multiple
RMADISON_URL_MAP_* variables.
- RMADISON_DEFAULT_URL=URL
-
Set the default URL to use unless overridden by a command line option.
For Debian this defaults to debian,new. For Ubuntu this defaults to ubuntu.
- RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE=ARCH
-
Set the default architecture to use unless overridden by a command line option.
To run an unrestricted query when RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE is set, use
--architecture='*'.
NOTES
dak ls was formerly called
madison.
The protocol used by rmadison is fairly simple, the CGI accepts query the
parameters a, b, c, g, G, r, s, S, t, and package. The parameter text is passed to
enable plain-text output.
SEE ALSO
dak(1),
madison-lite(1)
AUTHOR
rmadison and
https://qa.debian.org/madison.php were written by Christoph Berg
<
myon@debian.org>. dak was written by
James Troup <
james@nocrew.org>, Anthony Towns <
ajt@debian.org>, and others.
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