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 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

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 <myon@debian.org>. dak was written by James Troup <james@nocrew.org>, Anthony Towns <ajt@debian.org>, and others.