BOTCH-SRC2BIN(1)

💖 BOTCH-SRC2BIN(1) 💖

okay bestie, so botch-src2bin is a whole botch tools moment (that's the manual name, it's giving very official 💅) and honestly? it's so much simpler than it sounds.

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✨ NAME ✨

botch-src2bin — turn source packages into their binary packages 🦋

basically it's the glow-up machine: source package in, binary packages out.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

botch-src2bin [options] Packages Sources

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so you hand it a list of source packages, right? and it hands you back the binary packages those source packages build. that's it. that's the whole vibe. one in, many out, main character energy 🎀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay this is the part where we go through every single flag because we do NOT skip details in this house 💖

• --version — shows the program's version and then dips out. bye! 👋
• -h, --help — shows this help message and exits. ur friendly little map 🗺️
• -v, --verbose — prints extra info, like it's telling you the gossip too 🗣️
• --quiet — prints no messages at all. silent. mysterious. icon behaviour 🤫
• -A, --available=FILE — a list of available packages (arch:all, crossed, all of it ✨) in control file format.
• --allowsrcmismatch — so if a binary package has no source package, but there IS a source package with the same name and a different version? this lets it match that binary package to that source package. cute little compromise 🫶
• --ignoresrclessbin — ignore binary packages that don't have an associated source package. and heads up: if --allowsrcmismatch is also supplied, then this rule gets applied after it. order matters bestie, no cap 💀
• --fg=PKGS — additional Packages lists that ARE checked and used for resolving dependencies. (can be repeated, so go off 🔥)
• --bg=PKGS — additional Packages lists that are NOT checked but ARE used for resolving dependencies. (also can be repeated ✨)
• -o, --outfile=FILE — sets the output file to FILE 📁
• --deb-native-arch=ARCH — native architecture ARCH.
• --deb-host-arch=arch — host architecture arch. defaults to the native architecture.
• --deb-foreign-archs=archs — comma-separated foreign architectures, in addition to the native and host architectures. the more the merrier 🌈

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😭 BUGS 😭

see <http://bugs.debian.org/botch> — yes it's a link in a terminal, we contain multitudes.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Debian doc-base Manual /usr/share/doc/botch/wiki/Home.html — go read it, it's giving educational 💅

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

this man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate. legends, honestly 🫶

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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.

fr fr read the license, it's not just decoration 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie!! perl v5.36.0 ✨ dated 2023-02-17 — those are the deets from the footer, so now you know exactly what version of the world you're living in. slay, go build some packages 🦋💖