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.IX Title "DOSE-CHALLENGED 1"
.TH DOSE-CHALLENGED 1 2024-04-09 " " "DOSE Tools"
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.SH NAME
challenged \- detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.IP "\fBchallenged\fR [options] \fIPackages file(s)\fR" 4
.IX Item "challenged [options] Packages file(s)"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "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.
.SH "Input Specification"
.IX Header "Input Specification"
The input of challenged is a list of Debian Packages files
.SH "Output Specification"
.IX Header "Output Specification"
The output of challenged is in the yaml format.
.SH Options
.IX Header "Options"
.IP "\fB\-b \-\-broken\fR" 8
.IX Item "-b --broken"
Print the list of broken packages
.IP "\fB\-d \-\-downgrade\fR" 8
.IX Item "-d --downgrade"
Check package downgrades
.IP \fB\-c\fR 8
.IX Item "-c"
Print the list of packages in a cluster
.IP "\fB\-\-checkonly\fR \fIpackage\fR[,\fIpackage\fR] ..." 8
.IX Item "--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 .
.Sp
Example: \-\-checkonly "libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3\-1)"
.IP \fB\-v\fR 8
.IX Item "-v"
Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to
three times in order to increase verbosity.
.IP \fB\-\-progress\fR 8
.IX Item "--progress"
Enable progress bars.
.IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fR" 8
.IX Item "-h, --help"
Display this list of options.
.SH EXAMPLE
.IX Header "EXAMPLE"
.Vb 1
\&  challenged \-v \-\-progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml
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.SH NOTE
.IX Header "NOTE"
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBdistcheck\fR(1)\fR
\&\fBoutdated\fR(1)\fB\fR
.PP
<http://www.mancoosi.org> is the home page of the Mancoosi project.