BEN(1) | BEN(1) |
NAME¶
ben - transition tracker managerSYNOPSIS¶
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-runDry 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¶
downloadhas 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/09/21/2015 |