X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ianmdlvl/git?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=resources.dbk;h=0591af7c587fd90f6564e2ad7ce2f18c1c752d1e;hb=1a3c57034ada63e6ca12243296044e38beea49fd;hp=fa9cc705d10b0cf35958b7181bc5bd92d0089dc2;hpb=d83ad0ef98fc97553ef37b7a9e1fe63f7d16096f;p=developers-reference.git diff --git a/resources.dbk b/resources.dbk index fa9cc70..0591af7 100644 --- a/resources.dbk +++ b/resources.dbk @@ -772,8 +772,9 @@ Every released Debian distribution has a code name: Debian Debian 1.3, bo; Debian 2.0, hamm; Debian 2.1, slink; Debian 2.2, potato; Debian 3.0, woody; Debian 3.1, sarge; -Debian 4.0, etch and Debian 5.0 will be called -lenny. There is also a ``pseudo-distribution'', called +Debian 4.0, etch; Debian 5.0, lenny +and the next release will be called squeeze. +There is also a ``pseudo-distribution'', called sid, which is the current unstable distribution; since packages are moved from unstable to testing as they approach stability, sid @@ -971,28 +972,30 @@ a given package at the URL -
-The <command>madison</command> utility +
+The <command>dak ls</command> utility -madison is a command-line utility that is available on -&ftp-master-host;, and on the mirror on -&ftp-master-mirror;. It uses a single argument corresponding -to a package name. In result it displays which version of the package is -available for each architecture and distribution combination. An example will -explain it better. +dak ls is part of the dak suite of tools, listing +available package versions for all known distributions and architectures. +The dak tool is available on &ftp-master-host; +, and on the mirror on &ftp-master-mirror;. +It uses a single argument corresponding to a package name. An example will +explain it better: -$ madison libdbd-mysql-perl -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2202-4 | stable | source, alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc, sparc -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2216-2 | testing | source, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2216-2.0.1 | testing | alpha -libdbd-mysql-perl | 1.2219-1 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +$ dak ls evince +evince | 0.1.5-2sarge1 | oldstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +evince | 0.4.0-5 | etch-m68k | source, m68k +evince | 0.4.0-5 | stable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +evince | 2.20.2-1 | testing | source +evince | 2.20.2-1+b1 | testing | alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc +evince | 2.22.2-1 | unstable | source, alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc In this example, you can see that the version in unstable differs from the version in testing and that there has -been a binary-only NMU of the package for the alpha architecture. Each version -of the package has been recompiled on most of the architectures. +been a binary-only NMU of the package for all architectures. Each version +of the package has been recompiled on all architectures.