Re: madison

[Rick Younie <younie@debian.org>]

Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> 
> I've often found myself in a situation where I wanted to know the
> status of one of my packages on various archs. In this cases, I'd
> prefer checking a webpage, than log into auric. packages.debian.org is
> unfortunately useless for this kind of query.

Maintainers can use a local shell function for this,

def:/rick$ type mad
mad is a function
mad () 
{ 
    ssh -l younie auric.debian.org madison "$@"
}

db.debian.org describes how to have your ssh key propagate to
all developer machines and, I think, how to use ssh-add so
you don't have to type your password each time.

I use a similar thing for dinstall to check if the dupload is ok.

Rick
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