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dose-challenged() | dose-challenged() |
NAME¶
challenged - detect broken packages due to obsolete dependencies
SYNOPSIS¶
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- challenged [options] Packages file(s)
DESCRIPTION¶
challenged performs a speculative analysis of the repository to identify those packages that, if upgraded to a specific version, would break a large number of other packages in the repository. This tool would be particularly useful during the upgrade of a specific component to evaluate its impact on the software archive.
Input Specification¶
The input of challenged is a list of Debian Packages files
Output Specification¶
The output of challenged is in the yaml format.
Options¶
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- -b --broken
Print the list of broken packages
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- -d --downgrade
Check package downgrades
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- -c
Print the list of packages in a cluster
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- --checkonly package[,package] ...
Specifies a list of packages to check. By default all packages are checked. Takes a comma-separated list of package names and a version .
Example: --checkonly "libc6 (=1.4), 2ping (= 1.2.3-1)"
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- -v
Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three times in order to increase verbosity.
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- --progress
Enable progress bars.
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- -h, --help
Display this list of options.
EXAMPLE¶
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challenged -v --progress Packages.bz2 > result.yaml
NOTE¶
AUTHOR¶
Pietro Abate and Roberto Di Cosmo
SEE ALSO¶
distcheck(1)**outdated*(1)***
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