NAME¶
dose-challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies
SYNOPSIS¶
- dose-challenged [options] Packages
file(s)
DESCRIPTION¶
dose-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.
The input of dose-challenged is a list of Debian Packages files
Output Specification¶
The output of dose-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
- Select a subset of packages to check. By default all
packages are checked.
- -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¶
dose-challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml
NOTE¶
AUTHOR¶
Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo
SEE ALSO¶
dose-distcheck(1) dose-outdated(1)
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http://www.mancoosi.org> is the home page of the Mancoosi project.
