NAME

challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies

SYNOPSIS

challenged [options] Packages file(s)

DESCRIPTION

challenged performs a speculative analysis of the repository to identify those packages that, if upgraded to a specific version, would break a large number of other packages in the repository. This tool would be particularly useful during the upgrade of a specific component to evaluate its impact on the software archive.

Input Specification

The input of challenged is a list of Debian Packages files

Output Specification

The output of challenged is in the yaml format.

Options

-b --broken: Print the list of broken packages
-d --downgrade: Check package downgrades
-c: Print the list of packages in a cluster
--checkonly package[,package] ...: Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages are checked. Takes a comma-separated list of package names and a version .
Example: --checkonly "libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3-1)"
-v: Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.
--progress: Enable progress bars.
-h, --help: Display this list of options.

EXAMPLE

  challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml

NOTE

AUTHOR

Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo