man(8)

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👑 man(8) — pkgos-bb, aka the backport bestie

okay so bestie, pull up a chair 💖 this is the manual page for pkgos-bb, living its best life in section 8 of the manual. it backports a package from a distribution you define. that's the whole vibe. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pkgos-bb — backport package from defined distribution. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pkgos-bb [-u] [-d <DISTRO>] PACKAGE_NAME

like… that's it. that's the whole incantation. 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

pkgos-bb backports a package from a distribution you define. no cap. you tell it where, you give it a package name, and it does the thing. main character energy fr fr 🎀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -u — upload to the defined Debian repository. yes queen, actually ship it 📤✨
  • -d DISTRO — define from which distro to backport. DISTRO is a placeholder, so swap in your actual distro name, bestie 🌈

🦋 FILES 🦋

  • /var/lib/jenkins/backports/ — the root backport directory for building by the jenkins user. this one's jenkins' house 🏠
  • ~/src/os-bpo — the root backport directory for building by other users. everyone else, this is your spot 💜

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs. iconic behaviour, honestly ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

  • Script is written by Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> 💌
  • Man page is written by Andrii Kroshchenko <akroshchenko@mirantis.com> 💌
lowkey obsessed with how short this page is. no notes. 🫶

sign-off time 🌸 this whole thing is pkgos-bb version 45.0, dated 27 Apr 2016, and it's a man(8) page. periodt. 💅✨

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