BOTCH-CALCPORTSMETRIC(1)

✨ BOTCH-CALCPORTSMETRIC(1) ✨

okay bestie, this is a page from the botch tools manual set, and it's genuinely one of my faves 🫶 so like, botch-calcportsmetric — say that five times fast, I dare you — it calculates source package importance. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

botch-calcportsmetric — calculate source package importance 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

botch-calcportsmetric [options] strongsrcgraph.xml closuresrcgraph.xml

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so the tea is this: it calculates a metric for how important a source package is, based on how many source packages — both minimum and maximum — become compilable in a bootstrapping scenario, just through the compilability of a given source package. it's giving "how much does the whole ecosystem need this one little guy" energy. no cap. 🔥

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. classic. iconic. she never misses 🎀
• --online — retrieve popcon results for source packages. yes, that means it goes online, so maybe don't do this on airplane wifi 🌈
• -v, --verbose — print additional information. turn this on if you want the full group-chat update instead of the two-word text 💬

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🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

calculate source package importance, bestie:

zcat packages_amd64.gz | grep-dctrl -FArchitecture all > available
botch-create_graph --deb-native-arch=amd64 --available=available --strongtype packages sources > strongbuildgraph.xml
botch-buildgraph2srcgraph --deb-native-arch=amd64 strongbuildgraph.xml packages sources > strongsrcgraph.xml
botch-create_graph --deb-native-arch=amd64 --available=available --closuretype packages sources > closurebuildgraph.xml
botch-buildgraph2srcgraph --deb-native-arch=amd64 closurebuildgraph.xml packages sources > closuresrcgraph.xml
botch-calcportsmetric --online strongsrcgraph.xml closuresrcgraph.xml > importance_metric_noall.txt

look at her go. a whole pipeline. main character energy fr fr 💜

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💀 BUGS 💀

See <http://bugs.debian.org/botch>. that's the place to spill, not here 🙈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Debian doc-base Manual /usr/share/doc/botch/wiki/Home.html

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate. absolute legends, we stan 🫶

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright 2012-2014 Johannes Schauer, Pietro Abate

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this library, see the COPYING file for more information.

okay so important: that linking exception is a whole extra thing layered on top, and you gotta read the COPYING file for the details. don't skip it, bestie, licensing is not a vibe check you wanna fail 😭

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and that's the page!! written for perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-02-17 — slay, she's been around a minute and she's still serving. mwah 💅✨🎀