NAME
rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about packages
SYNOPSIS
"rmadison
DESCRIPTION
dak ls queries the Debian archive database (“projectb”) and
displays which package version is registered per architecture/component/suite.
The \s-1CGI\s0 at http://qa.debian.org/madison.php provides that service without
requiring ssh access to ftp-master.debian.org or the mirror on
merkel.debian.org. This script, rmadison, is a command line frontend to
this \s-1CGI\s0.
OPTIONS
"-a,
only show info for \s-1ARCH\s0(s)
"-b,
only show info for binary \s-1TYPE\s0
"-c,
only show info for \s-1COMPONENT\s0(s)
"-g,
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >= {highest version}' info
"-G,
show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >> {highest version}' info
"-h,
show this help and exit
"-s,
only show info for this suite
"-S,
show info for the binary children of source pkgs
"-t,
show projectb snapshot and reload time (not supported by all archives)
"-u,
use \s-1URL\s0 for the query. Supported shorthands are
debian or qa http://qa.debian.org/madison.php (the default)
bpo http://www.backports.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
ubuntu http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
"--version"
show version and exit
\s-1ARCH\s0, \s-1COMPONENT\s0 and \s-1SUITE\s0 can be comma (or space) separated lists, e.g.
--architecture=m68k,i386
NOTES
dak ls also supports -r, --regex to treat \s-1PACKAGE\s0 as a regex. Since
that can easily DoS the database (“-r .”), this option is not supported by the
\s-1CGI\s0 and rmadison.
dak ls was formerly called madison.
The protocol used by rmadison is fairly simple, the \s-1CGI\s0 accepts query the
parameters a, b, c, g, G, s, S, t, and package. The parameter text is passed to
enable plain-text output.
SEE ALSO
madison-lite(1), dak(1).
AUTHOR
rmadison and http://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.
