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NAME¶
madison-lite
—
SYNOPSIS¶
madison-lite |
[- -config-file
file]
[- -mirror
directory]
[- -nocache ]
[- -update ]
[-S ] [-r ]
[-a
architecture[,...]]
[-c
component[,...]]
[-s
suite[,...]]
package [...] |
DESCRIPTION¶
madison-lite
inspects a local Debian package archive and
displays the versions of the given packages found in each
suite (for example, stable
,
testing
, or unstable
) in a
brief but easily human-readable form. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for
the madison
utility (since renamed to
dak ls
), from the dak
archive
management suite that runs on the central Debian archive systems, but one
which can run without access to the archive's SQL database.
The following options are available:
-
-config-file
file- Read configuration from file, and ignore the system configuration file (see CONFIGURATION below).
-
-mirror
directory- Quick configuration: use directory as the top level of the Debian mirror.
-
-nocache
- Normally, parts of the Packages and Sources files in the archive are cached in ~/.madison-lite/cache for speed. This option disables that behaviour.
-
-update
- Force caches of Packages and Sources files to be updated.
-S
,-
-source-and-binary
- Interpret package as a source package name, and display versions of any associated binary packages as well as of the source package.
-r
,-
-regex
- Interpret package as a Perl regular expression anchored at the start of the package name rather than as an exact name. Make sure to quote any shell metacharacters such as ‘*’ or ‘?’ if necessary.
-a
,-
-architecture
architecture[,...]- Display only entries for packages built for these architectures. Separate multiple architectures with commas or spaces.
-c
,-
-component
component[,...]- Display only entries in the given components. Separate multiple components with commas or spaces.
-s
,-
-suite
suite[,...]- Display only entries in the given suites. Separate multiple suites with commas or spaces.
CONFIGURATION¶
madison-lite
reads configuration information from the
file named by -
-config-file
,
or, if that is not supplied, from the first of
~/.madison-lite/config and
/etc/madison-lite/config that exists.
The following configuration directives are recognized:
mirror
directory- Set the top-level directory of the local Debian mirror. Relative
directories in the
suite
directive are interpreted relative to this directory. Defaults to the current directory. suite
name directory [component [...]]- Defines the suite name based at
directory, containing the specified components
(defaulting to all subdirectories of directory).
Output is displayed following the order of
suite
directives in the configuration file. If nosuite
directives are present, then every subdirectory of the dists directory under mirror is treated as a suite, with all of their subdirectories as components.The Debian archive is structured such that the subdirectories of each suite directory identify components (such as main). Each of those in turn has subdirectories for each architecture (binary-i386, and so on), each of which contains any or all of Packages, Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, and Packages.xz files listing binary packages; it also has a subdirectory called source which contains any or all of Sources, Sources.gz, Sources.bz2, and Sources.xz files listing source packages.
The configuration file may contain comment lines, which start with a ‘#’ character.
EXAMPLES¶
Show versions of thecoreutils
package:
$ madison-lite coreutils
Show versions of all binary packages on
powerpc
produced by the
glibc
source package:
$ madison-lite -S -a powerpc
glibc
Show versions of all packages in the
unstable
suite whose names begin with
‘man’:
$ madison-lite -s unstable -r
'man.*'
An example configuration file for a simple local mirror:
mirror /mirror/debian suite unstable dists/unstable main suite unstable-non-US non-US/dists/unstable non-US/main
SEE ALSO¶
dpkg-scanpackages(8), dpkg-scansources(8), apt-ftparchive(1)AUTHORS¶
madison-lite
was written by Colin
Watson ⟨cjwatson@debian.org⟩. The interface mirrors that
of madison
(since renamed to dak
ls
), written by James Troup.
August 1, 2007 | Debian |