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/