rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about packages
-
rmadison [OPTIONS] PACKAGE ...
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.
-
-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 https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
udd https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
archive https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=archived
ports https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=ports
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=amd64,i386
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.
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.
dak(1),
madison-lite(1)
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.