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rmadison(1)

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

   -r, --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 https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison
        new https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?s=new
        qa https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
        ubuntu http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
        udd https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi

       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. 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='*'.

   RMADISON_SSL_CA_FILE=FILE
       Use the specified CA file instead of the default CA bundle for
       curl/wget, passed as --cacert to curl, and as --ca-certificate to
       wget.

   RMADISON_SSL_CA_PATH=PATH
       Use the specified CA directory instead of the default CA bundle for
       curl/wget, passed as --capath to curl, and as --ca-directory to
       wget.

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 <[email protected]>. dak was written by James Troup
   <[email protected]>, Anthony Towns <[email protected]>, and others.



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