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.\"     Title: ben
.\"    Author: Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu
.\" Generator: Asciidoctor 1.5.8
.\"      Date: 2019-01-30
.\"    Manual: \ \&
.\"    Source: \ \&
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "BEN" "1" "2019-01-30" "\ \&" "\ \&"
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.SH "NAME"
ben \- transition tracker manager
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.sp
\fBben\fP \fIFRONTEND\fP [\fIOPTIONS\fP]
.sp
\fBben\fP [\-h|\-help|\-\-help]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.sp
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.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.sp
\fB\-\-dry\-run\fP
.RS 4
Dry run
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-quiet|\-q\fP
.RS 4
Quiet mode
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-verbose\fP
.RS 4
Verbose mode
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-mirror uri\fP
.RS 4
Package mirror to use
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-mirror\-binaries uri\fP
.RS 4
Package mirror to use for binaries
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-mirror\-sources uri\fP
.RS 4
Package mirror to use for sources
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-areas a,…\fP
.RS 4
Areas to consider (comma separated)
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-archs a,…\fP
.RS 4
Architectures to consider (comma separated)
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-suite a\fP
.RS 4
Suite
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-cache\-dir d\fP
.RS 4
Path to cache dir
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-cache\-file|\-C f\fP
.RS 4
Specify the name of the cache file
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-use\-cache\fP
.RS 4
Use cache whenever possible
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-config|\-c c\fP
.RS 4
Config file
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-more\-binary\-keys l\fP
.RS 4
Comma separated list of further relevant binary keys
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-more\-source\-keys l\fP
.RS 4
Comma separated list of further relevant source keys
.RE
.sp
\fB\-\-preferred\-compression\-format f\fP
.RS 4
Preferred compression format (Default: Gzip)
.RE
.SH "FRONTENDS"
.sp
\fBdownload\fP
.RS 4
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.
.RE
.sp
\fBquery\fP
.RS 4
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.
.RE
.sp
\fBmonitor\fP
.RS 4
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).
.RE
.sp
\fBtracker\fP
.RS 4
This frontend uses the monitor to generate a summary page about
all known transitions. An example of such summary can be found at
.URL "https://release.debian.org/transitions/" "" "."
.RE
.sp
\fBrebuild\fP
.RS 4
This frontend rebuilds all packages matching a criterion, respecting
the order of build\-dependencies.
.RE
.sp
For more information about ben\(cqs frontends, please refer to the
reference manual.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.sp
Ben was originally written by Stéphane Glondu.
.SH "RESOURCES"
.sp
Main web site: \c
.URL "https://ben.debian.net/" "" ""
.SH "AUTHOR"
.sp
Mehdi Dogguy and Stéphane Glondu