compose-partial-copy(1)

📦 version 0.1.51, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💅 compose-partial-copy — the group chat's fave little copier ✨

okay so bestie, this is a page from the General Commands Manual (yes, the compose-partial-copy(1) one, section 1, we love a numbered section 💖) and it's literally the tool you want when you need to yeet part of a compose somewhere else.

🌸 NAME 🌸

compose-partial-copy — copy part of compose to another location. that's it, that's the vibe 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

compose-partial-copy [OPTIONS...]  COMPOSE DESTINATION

two positional besties: COMPOSE (the source) and DESTINATION (where it's going). and then your options, obviously 💅

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so compose-partial-copy copies parts of compose to another location, and it does it via rsync. no cap. 🎀

you get to pick which variants and/or architectures you want copied — you're the main character here, you decide. and ngl, it might run rsync multiple times to get you the exact result you asked for. multiple invocations, multiple slays. ✨

and here's the iconic part: any arguments it doesn't recognize? it just passes them directly to rsync. not me handing your weird flags straight through 😭 it's giving delegation.

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • -h, --help — prints the help and then dips. exit stage left, that's it 🎀
  • --arch=ARCH — copy only this architecture. you can use this flag multiple times if you're feeling thorough, fr fr. any binary architecture is allowed, so go off. 💅
but listen, this is the important part: if you want the source data (RPMs, ISOs, repositories etc.) copied too, you have to explicitly add --arch=src. it will not do it for you, it's not a mind reader. and if you specify no arch filter at all, then the variant as a whole gets copied — all binary and source content, the full package, the whole meal. 🍓
  • --variant=VARIANT — copy only this variant. can be used multiple times, stack 'em up bestie 🦋
  • -n, --dry-run — only prints the rsync commands, does not copy anything. it's a vibe check, not a commitment 🙈
cute little trick: you can append -- --dry-run at the end of the command line to pass the dry-run option to rsync instead. in that case, rsync will actually be called — it just prints some debugging information. so it runs, it just yaps. 💀

⭐ EXIT CODE ⭐

this tool exits with status code 0 on success, and a non-zero value on failure. simple as that, periodt. 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? please report bugs at https://pagure.io/compose-utils/issues — the maintainers wanna hear it, don't be shy 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was compose-partial-copy(1) from the General Commands Manual — no version number or date was printed on it, just the page name hanging out at the bottom like the little icon it is. now go copy some compose 🌈✨👑

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