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6 rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about packages
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9 rmadison [OPTIONS] PACKAGE ...
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12 dak ls queries the Debian archive database ("projectb") and displays
13 which package version is registered per architecture/component/suite.
14 The CGI at https://qa.debian.org/madison.php provides that service
15 without requiring SSH access to ftp-master.debian.org or the mirror on
16 mirror.ftp-master.debian.org. This script, rmadison, is a command line
17 frontend to this CGI.
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20 -a, --architecture=ARCH
21 only show info for ARCH(s)
22 -b, --binary-type=TYPE
24 only show info for binary TYPE
25 -c, --component=COMPONENT
27 only show info for COMPONENT(s)
28 -g, --greaterorequal
30 show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >= {highest version}' info
31 -G, --greaterthan
33 show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >> {highest version}' info
34 -h, --help
36 show this help and exit
37 -s, --suite=SUITE
39 only show info for this suite
40 -r, --regex
42 treat PACKAGE as a regex
43 Note: Since -r can easily DoS the database ("-r ."), this option is
45 not supported by the CGI on qa.debian.org and most other
46 installations.
47 -S, --source-and-binary
49 show info for the binary children of source pkgs
50 -t, --time
52 show projectb snapshot and reload time (not supported by all
53 archives)
54 -u, --url=URL[,URL ...]
56 use URL for the query. Supported shorthands are
57 debian https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison
58 new https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?s=new
59 qa https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
60 ubuntu https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
61 udd https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
62 archive https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=archived
63 ports https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=ports
64 See the RMADISON_URL_MAP_ variable below for a method to add new
66 shorthands.
67 --version
69 show version and exit
70 --no-conf, --noconf
72 don't read the devscripts configuration files
73 ARCH, COMPONENT and SUITE can be comma (or space) separated lists, e.g.
75 --architecture=amd64,i386
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78 The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
79 sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables.
80 Command line options can be used to override configuration file
81 settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.
82 The currently recognised variables are:
83 RMADISON_URL_MAP_SHORTHAND=URL
85 Add an entry to the set of shorthand URLs listed above. SHORTHAND
86 should be replaced with the shorthand form to be used to refer to
87 URL.
88 Multiple shorthand entries may be specified by using multiple
90 RMADISON_URL_MAP_* variables.
91 RMADISON_DEFAULT_URL=URL
93 Set the default URL to use unless overridden by a command line
94 option. For Debian this defaults to debian. For Ubuntu this
95 defaults to ubuntu.
96 RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE=ARCH
98 Set the default architecture to use unless overridden by a command
99 line option. To run an unrestricted query when
100 RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE is set, use --architecture='*'.
101 RMADISON_SSL_CA_FILE=FILE
103 Use the specified CA file instead of the default CA bundle for
104 curl/wget, passed as --cacert to curl, and as --ca-certificate to
105 wget.
106 RMADISON_SSL_CA_PATH=PATH
108 Use the specified CA directory instead of the default CA bundle for
109 curl/wget, passed as --capath to curl, and as --ca-directory to
110 wget.
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113 dak ls was formerly called madison.
114 The protocol used by rmadison is fairly simple, the CGI accepts query
116 the parameters a, b, c, g, G, r, s, S, t, and package. The parameter
117 text is passed to enable plain-text output.
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120 dak(1), madison-lite(1)
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123 rmadison and https://qa.debian.org/madison.php were written by
124 Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>. dak was written by James Troup
125 <james@nocrew.org>, Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>, and others.
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