man(8)

✨ man(8) — pkgos-alternative-bin ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about pkgos-alternative-bin, a section 8 system administration situation 💅 it lives in the same family as man(8) pages and it is so specific about what it does. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

pkgos-alternative-bin — adds alternative(s) simlink (see update-alternatives(8)) of the python (version 2 and 3) target package in the debian/{post{inst,rm},prerm} files, and it also suggests additions to debian/rules. yes, it's that girl: symlinks and packaging opinions 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pkgos-alternative-bin PKG-NAME bin-name-1 [ bin-name-2 ...]

so you hand it a package name, then at least one binary name, and then optionally as many more binary names as your little heart desires. [ bin-name-2 ...] is doing the "and friends" thing 🌈

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

pkgos-alternative-bin adds alternative(s) simlink (see update-alternatives(8)) of the target package in the debian/{post{inst,rm},prerm} files.

that's it. that's the whole job. it's giving niche Debian packaging tool energy and honestly? we respect it ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

okay so listen, this one's a short read:

• the pkgos-alternative-bin does not take any options. not one. zero. nada. it ate and left no crumbs because there were no crumbs to leave 💀

so don't come at it with flags, bestie, it simply will not be engaging with that 🎀

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs. periodt. she's flawless, no cap, and we are not fact-checking that 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• update-alternatives(8) — the main character she's always referencing, go read it, iykyk 💖

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

• Script is written by Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> — the one who actually wrote the script, legend behaviour 👑
• Man page is written by Andrii Kroshchenko <akroshchenko@mirantis.com> — the one who wrote this very page you're reading, iconic of them 🎀

lowkey a whole group project and both of them slayed, fr fr 🫶

and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page is version 45.0 and it's dated 27 Apr 2016, so it's an elder but she's still cute 💅 mwah, go make some alternatives 🦋✨