UTRANS-DEB(1)

📦 version 0.7, in debian trixie

💖 UTRANS-DEB 💖

okay bestie, so this is utrans-deb, a lil User Commands girly whose whole job is applying utrans to every single systemd unit chillin' inside the deb files you hand her. no cap. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

utrans [ -b <BACKENDS> ] <DEB-FILE>*

like… you give her a list of deb files, optionally tell her which backends to use, and she goes to work. periodt. 💅

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

she keeps it simple, she's lowkey minimal like that:

  • -b <BACKENDS> — hand her a comma-separated list of backends and she'll use those for all her utrans calls. heads up though: when a type shows up more than once (the types being service, socket and timer), it's the last backend mentioned for each type that actually gets used. so the earlier ones? they're just there for the vibes, bestie. 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍵 — utrans-deb uses utrans to translate the systemd services, sockets and timers sitting inside the deb files you give her, turning them into the corresponding generic UNIX configuration and scripting that gets used in alternative settings which exclude systemd entirely. it's giving translation era, it's giving freedom from systemd, iconic honestly. 👑

the way it works is she makes a temporary working directory in the current directory 🌈 — that's where she unpacks all of the deb files you passed her and where all the unit translation happens. then once everything's done she packs the whole result up into a tar file, and that tar file gets named after the first deb file with -services.tgz appended to it. slay. ✨

fr fr, remember: temp working dir goes in your current directory, and the output tar takes its name from the first deb file. don't be surprised, bestie. 🫶

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

  • utrans(1) — the main character this whole page is about, go read her too. 💜

💖 AUTHORS 💖

Copyright 2024, Ralph Ronnquist <rrq@rrq.au> 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was Version 0.7, dated 2024-10-07, and honestly? she ate. 🌸💅✨ no notes. mwah. 💋

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