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
           This frontend uses the monitor to generate a summary page about all known transitions.
           An example of such summary can be found at https://release.debian.org/transitions/.

       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.

RESOURCES

       Main web site: https://ben.debian.net/

AUTHOR

       Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu

                                            2022-02-25                                     BEN(1)