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 http://release.debian.org/transitions/.

       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: http://ben.debian.net/

                                                   02/12/2016                                             BEN(1)