MINI-BUILDD-SUPER-PORTEXT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

mini-buildd-super-portext — EXPERIMENTAL: Portext a source package including all dependencies.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay bestie, buckle up, here's the whole vibe. the usage line goes like this:

mbu-super-portext [-h] [--version] [-l LOG_LEVEL] [-M MIRROR] [-U]
       ENDPOINT SOURCE DISTRIBUTION

🚨 EXPERIMENTAL 🚨 Portext a source package including all dependencies. it's giving "we're building the plane while flying it" energy.

🎀 positional arguments 🎀

• ENDPOINT — the HTTP target endpoint, aka a Twisted-style Network Client Endpoint. no cap.

see: https://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/endpoints.html#clients

Notation Examples::

• 'tcp:host=localhost:port=8066' — connect to localhost, unencrypted.
• 'tls:host=localhost:port=8066' — connect to localhost, encrypted.
• 'http://localhost:8066' — extra URL-style syntax (prefer twisted-style in saved configs, though).
• 'localhost:8066' — compatibility host:port syntax (don't use it — might eventually go away).

• SOURCE — Pattern or DSC URL 💅
• DISTRIBUTION — the distribution to portext to.

💜 options 💜

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. classic, iconic.
• --version — show program's version number and exit.
• -l, --log-level LOG_LEVEL — set log level. if none given, ['WARNING', 'mini_buildd.INFO'] is applied by default. may also be given as <logger>.<level> to effect individual loggers only, and multiple times (check existing logs for actual logger names). (default: None)
• -M, --mirror MIRROR — Debian mirror to use. (default: http://localhost:3142/debian/)
• -U, --upload — Non-dry run: actually upload packages. (default: False)

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EXPERIMENTAL: Portext a source package including all dependencies.

intended to help porting larger 'projects' (f.e. desktop environments) with a lot of source packages and inter-package build dependencies. it's a whole ecosystem, fr fr.

⚠️ this still has a lot of rough edges. Use with care. 🫶

this tool uses the apt cache of the system it is run on. this needs to be set up pior to running. for example:

1. Run this in on system you want to PORT TO (f.e..: buster, 'deb' apt lines for buster).
2. Add 'deb-src' apt lines for the system you want to PORT FROM (f.e.: bullseye, 'deb-src' apt lines for bullseye).
3. sudo apt-get update
4. mini-buildd-super-portext -v http://admin@localhost:8066 http://localhost:3142/debian//pool/main/k/kguiaddons/kguiaddons_5.70.0-2.dsc buster-test-unstable

per default, this will just print a list of DSC URLs it would portext (in this order). use --upload to actually run 'the portexts'. no cap. 👑

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this was mini-buildd-super-portext 2.4... from February 2026, manual page MINI-BUILDD-SUPER-PORTEXT(1), user commands section — thanks for reading bestie, go portext something 💖✨🦋