BOTCH-DOWNLOAD-PKGSRC(1)

💅 NAME 💅

botch-download-pkgsrc — bestie, it downloads your Packages and Sources files. That's the whole gig. Iconic behavior honestly. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

botch-download-pkgsrc [arch suite]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea: this little cutie pulls Packages and Sources files down from a mirror. That's it. That's the vibe. 🫶

Now, if you don't hand it arch and suite? It doesn't panic, it doesn't ghost you — it just goes and grabs a snapshot of Debian Sid from January 1, 2014 off snapshot.debian.org. Default queen energy, no cap. 👑

Let's talk about what you can actually pass here, because arch and suite are lowkey doing two different jobs:

• arch — drop in any valid Debian architecture and you're good to go. Slay.
• suite — this one's the shape-shifter, and the way that it works is it changes where your files come from depending on what you give it:

1. Give it a Debian release and the Packages and Sources files get retrieved from http.debian.net. Fr fr, classic.
2. Give it a Ubuntu release and they get retrieved from archive.ubuntu.com instead. Not me switching mirrors mid-explanation 💀
3. Give it a year after 2005 and you get a snapshot of Debian sid of January 1. of that year, retrieved from snapshot.debian.org. Time travel but make it packaging. 🕰️✨

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😭 BUGS 😭

Found something cursed? Take it up with the bug tracker, bestie:

See <http://bugs.debian.org/botch>.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

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

Go read the wiki, iykyk. 📚💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch itself is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate. Two legends, one tool. 🫡

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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 but actually read the COPYING file, the linking exception is real and it matters. 🙈

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and that's the whole manpage, bestie 💖 written through and through, every flag and path intact, no facts harmed in the making of this vibe ✨

this page lives in the botch tools section of the manual, and the version info at the bottom says perl v5.36.0 with a date of 2023-02-17 — so yeah, she's a 2023 girlie running on perl 5.36.0, and she ate. periodt. 💅🌸