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/.
For more information about ben's frontends, please refer to the reference manual.
AUTHOR
Ben was originally written by Stéphane Glondu.