MINI-BUILDD-APT-BOOTSTRAP(1)

💖 mini-buildd-apt-bootstrap 💖

okay bestie, welcome to section 1 of the manual pages — that's User Commands, the place where all the runnable lil programs live. and today's main character is mini-buildd-apt-bootstrap ✨ she's a shell script, she's a whole vibe, and she's about to install some keyrings for you. let's go 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

mini-buildd-apt-bootstrap — automated TOFU-style archive keyring package installation from any mini-buildd endpoint. periodt. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

mini-buildd-apt-bootstrap <ENDPOINT> (as user root)

no cap, that's the whole thing. one endpoint, and you gotta be root. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Automated TOFU-style archive keyring package installation from any mini-buildd endpoint. yes, she said it twice, because it's that iconic — TOFU here means trust-on-first-use, so bestie, the first time you meet an endpoint, you just... trust it. and then it's slay forever (hopefully 🙈).

Now, she's lowkey smart and she'll do some automatic perusal for you: she figures out codename (that's your system, babe) and/or identity (that's mini-buildd's identity) all on her own. But you can override that automatic perusal if you wanna take the wheel. just call her like this:

MBD_CODENAME=foo MBD_IDENTITY=bar MBD_APT_LINE="deb ..."
mini-buildd-apt-bootstrap ...

the way that works is you set those environment variables before the command, and she reads them instead of guessing. 🧚

This may be useful if the computation fails (like, tools not available, oops 😭) or is wrong for some reason. sometimes the vibe check just doesn't pass, yk? so you step in and tell her what's what.

🌈 heads up bestie: those variables are your escape hatch when the automatic stuff isn't giving. use them and she'll listen. 🫶

and that's the whole page, you're fully caught up. this gorgeous lil thing lives in the mini-buildd-apt-bootstrap package, version 1.9.99, dated March 2022. mwah, go install some keyrings, i'm obsessed with you 💖✨🎀