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NAME

dcontrol -- Query package and source control files for all Debian distributions

SYNOPSIS

dcontrol [options] package[modifiers] ...

DESCRIPTION

dcontrol queries a remote database of Debian binary and source package control files. It can be thought of as an apt-cache webservice that also operates for distributions and architectures different from the local machine.

MODIFIERS

Like apt-cache, packages can be suffixed by modifiers:

=version

Exact version match

@architecture

Query this only architecture. Use @source for source packages, @binary excludes source packages.

/[archive:][suite][/component]

Restrict to archive (debian, debian-backports, debian-security, debian-volatile), suite (always codenames, with the exception of experimental), and/or component (main, updates/main, ...). Use two slashes (//) to separate suite and component if the suite name contains slashes. (Component can be left empty.)

By default, all versions, suites, and architectures are queried. Refer to qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/dcontrol for currently supported values.

OPTIONS

-s, --show-suites

Add headers showing which distribution the control file is from.

-d, --debug

Print

URL

queried.

-h, --help

Show a help message.

-V, --version

Show version information.

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 variable is:

DCONTROL_URL

URL

to query. Default is qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/dcontrol.

AUTHOR

This program is Copyright (C) 2009 by Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>.

This program is licensed under the terms of the

either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

SEE ALSO

apt-cache(1)