WHALEBUILDER(1)
π WHALEBUILDER β the girlies' guide to building Debian packages π³β¨
okay so bestie, welcome to whalebuilder(1) π this lil cutie lives in the General Commands Manual section, and she's here to help you build Debian packages in a whole minimal environment using Docker. no cap. let's get into it π«Ά
β¨ NAME β¨
whalebuilder β a Debian package builder that uses Docker, periodt π³π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
whalebuilder [globalopts] <command> [options]
that's the whole vibe. global opts first, then your command, then that command's own options. slay π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
so like, Whalebuilder is a tool for building Debian packages inside a minimal environment, and it uses Docker to manage that build environment. that's the whole point of her, she's the main character π³π
and if you want more deets β like, the deep lore β go read /usr/share/doc/whalebuilder/README.md.gz. literally just read it bestie, it's right there ππ
π BUGS π
ngl, this is a terrible manpage. π that's not me being mean, that's literally what the page says. we're keeping it real fr fr.
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
docker(1)β go say hi to Docker, she's the whole reason this works π³β¨
β VERSION β
this man page is from Whalebuilder version 0.1. vintage, iconic, historic π π
π AUTHOR π
Hubert Chathi, hubert@uhoreg.ca. king behaviour, we love to see it ππ
and that's the whole page babes π«Ά this one came out of the General Commands Manual and it's stamped 2015-03-29 β which honestly? still ate. bye bestie, go build something cute π³β¨π
π¦ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: whalebuilder 0.9 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later
- debian trixie: whalebuilder 0.11+nmu1 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu noble: whalebuilder 0.11 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: whalebuilder 0.11+nmu1 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: whalebuilder 0.11+nmu1 Β· GPL-3.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms