rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about
packages
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
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
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.
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.