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CLI reference

krawler [options] <command>

Options

  • -c, --config file: (optional) the config file to customize the list of mirrors to scrape for kernel releases (by default it looks at $HOME/.krawler.yaml).
  • -v, --verbosity level: (optional) the verbosity level (debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic). By (default warning).

Commands

list|ls

List available kernel releases with distributed headers, by Linux distribution. It returns a list of kernelRelease objects. The output format can be specified by flag parameter.

krawler [options] list|ls <distribution> [-o <format>]

Parameters

distribution: (required) The Linux distribution for which the release has been pubished. Available distributions:

  • amazonlinux
  • amazonlinux2
  • amazonlinux2022
  • amazonlinux2023
  • centos
  • debian
  • ubuntu
  • fedora
  • oracle
  • opensuse

Options

-o, --output format: (optional) the format of the output of the list of kernel releases (one of text, json or yaml). By default yaml.

Output

The list|ls command prints on standard ouput a is a list of kernel release objects of type KernelRelease.

An example of a yaml-formatted result entry:

https://github.com/maxgio92/krawler/blob/main/pkg/kernelrelease/kernelrelease.go#L16
fullversion: 4.18.0
version: 4
patchlevel: 18
sublevel: 0
extraversion: "326"
fullextraversion: -326.el8.x86_64
architecture: x86_64
packagename: kernel-devel
packageurl: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/Packages/kernel-devel-4.18.0-326.el8.x86_64.rpm
compilerversion: "80500"