NAME¶
ben - transition tracker manager
SYNOPSIS¶
ben FRONTEND [OPTIONS]
ben [-h|-help|--help]
DESCRIPTION¶
The ben(1) command is a set of utilities written in OCaml. It
provides a full featured transition tracker to follow the evolution of a set
of packages in the Debian’s archive. All frontends share a common
list of options described below.
OPTIONS¶
--dry-run
Dry run
--quiet|-q
Quiet mode
--verbose
Verbose mode
--mirror uri
Package mirror to use
--mirror-binaries uri
Package mirror to use for binaries
--mirror-sources uri
Package mirror to use for sources
--areas a,…
Areas to consider (comma separated)
--archs a,…
Architectures to consider (comma separated)
--suite a
Suite
--cache-dir d
Path to cache dir
--cache-file|-C f
Specify the name of the cache file
--use-cache
Use cache whenever possible
--config|-c c
Config file
--more-binary-keys l
Comma separated list of further relevant binary
keys
--more-source-keys l
Comma separated list of further relevant source
keys
--preferred-compression-format f
Preferred compression format (Default: Gzip)
FRONTENDS¶
download
has no command-line options, except the shared ones. It
downloads all Sources.gz files and all Packages.gz files for selected
architectures and areas.
query
This utility is pretty much like
grep-dctrl(1). Given a
list of Packages or Sources files, it performs a query and outputs the
result.
monitor
The frontend monitor builds a monitor page for a
transition that is described by few criteria (the list of affected packages, a
description of good package and the description of a broken package).
tracker
rebuild
This frontend rebuilds all packages matching a criterion,
respecting the order of build-dependencies.
migrate
This frontend simulates a migration of some packages from
unstable to testing, and outputs an easy hint for Britney.
For more information about ben’s frontends, please refer to
the reference manual.
AUTHOR¶
Ben was originally written by Stéphane Glondu.
AUTHOR¶
Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu
