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, --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 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
            new http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=new

           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 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 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                                   2014-01-26                                        RMADISON(1)