RMADISON(1)															       RMADISON(1)

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 http://qa.debian.org/madison.php provides that service without requiring SSH access to ftp-master.debian.org or the mirror on
       ries.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

       -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 or qa http://qa.debian.org/madison.php
	    bpo http://backports.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
	    debug http://debug.debian.net/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
	    ubuntu http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/madison.cgi
	    udd http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi

	   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=m68k,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.

       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='*'.

NOTES

       dak ls also supports -r, --regex to treat PACKAGE as a regex. Since that can easily DoS the database ("-r ."), this option is not supported
       by the CGI and rmadison.

       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, s, S, t, and package. The parameter
       text is passed to enable plain-text output.

SEE ALSO

       madison-lite(1), dak(1).

AUTHOR

       rmadison and http://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.

Debian Utilities						    2013-12-23							       RMADISON(1)