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BEN(1)   BEN(1)

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/
09/21/2015