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RMADISON(1)                                                                              RMADISON(1)

NAME
       rmadison -- Remotely query the Debian archive database about packages

SYNOPSIS
       rmadison [OPTIONS] PACKAGE ...

DESCRIPTION
       dak ls queries the Debian archive database ("projectb") and displays which package version is
       registered  per  architecture/component/suite.   The CGI at https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
       provides that service without requiring SSH access to ftp-master.debian.org or the mirror  on
       mirror.ftp-master.debian.org. This script, rmadison, is a command line frontend to this CGI.

OPTIONS
       -a, --architecture=ARCH
           only show info for ARCH(s)

       -b, --binary-type=TYPE
           only show info for binary TYPE

       -c, --component=COMPONENT
           only show info for COMPONENT(s)

       -g, --greaterorequal
           show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >= {highest version}' info

       -G, --greaterthan
           show buildd 'dep-wait pkg >> {highest version}' info

       -h, --help
           show this help and exit

       -s, --suite=SUITE
           only show info for this suite

       -r, --regex
           treat PACKAGE as a regex

           Note:  Since -r can easily DoS the database ("-r ."), this option is not supported by the
           CGI on qa.debian.org and most other installations.

       -S, --source-and-binary
           show info for the binary children of source pkgs

       -t, --time
           show projectb snapshot and reload time (not supported by all archives)

       -u, --url=URL[,URL ...]
           use URL for the query. Supported shorthands are
            debian https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison
            new https://api.ftp-master.debian.org/madison?s=new
            qa https://qa.debian.org/madison.php
            ubuntu https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/madison.cgi
            udd https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi
            archive https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=archived
            ports https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/madison.cgi?table=ports

           See the RMADISON_URL_MAP_ variable below for a method to add new shorthands.

       --version
           show version and exit

       --no-conf, --noconf
           don't read the devscripts configuration files

       ARCH,   COMPONENT   and   SUITE   can   be   comma   (or   space)   separated   lists,   e.g.
       --architecture=amd64,i386

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       The  two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are sourced by a shell in
       that order to set configuration variables. Command line  options  can  be  used  to  override
       configuration  file settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose. The
       currently recognised variables are:

       RMADISON_URL_MAP_SHORTHAND=URL
           Add an entry to the set of shorthand URLs listed above. SHORTHAND should be replaced with
           the shorthand form to be used to refer to URL.

           Multiple  shorthand  entries  may  be  specified  by  using  multiple  RMADISON_URL_MAP_*
           variables.

       RMADISON_DEFAULT_URL=URL
           Set  the  default URL to use unless overridden by a command line option.  For Debian this
           defaults to debian. For Ubuntu this defaults to ubuntu.

       RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE=ARCH
           Set the default architecture to use unless overridden by a command line option.   To  run
           an unrestricted query when RMADISON_ARCHITECTURE is set, use --architecture='*'.

       RMADISON_SSL_CA_FILE=FILE
           Use  the  specified  CA  file  instead  of the default CA bundle for curl/wget, passed as
           --cacert to curl, and as --ca-certificate to wget.

       RMADISON_SSL_CA_PATH=PATH
           Use the specified CA directory instead of the default CA bundle for curl/wget, passed  as
           --capath to curl, and as --ca-directory to wget.

NOTES
       dak ls was formerly called madison.

       The protocol used by rmadison is fairly simple, the CGI accepts query the parameters a, b, c,
       g, G, r, s, S, t, and package. The parameter text is passed to enable plain-text output.

SEE ALSO
       dak(1), madison-lite(1)

AUTHOR
       rmadison    and    https://qa.debian.org/madison.php   were   written   by   Christoph   Berg
       <myon AT debian.org>.  dak  was  written  by  James  Troup  <james AT nocrew.org>,  Anthony   Towns
       <ajt AT debian.org>, and others.

Debian Utilities                             2026-02-25                                  RMADISON(1)