botch-bin2src(1)

botch-bin2src1

Convert binary packages to their source packages

Usage

botch-bin2src [options] Packages.. Sources

Overview

Given a list of binary packages by Packages, output the corresponding source packages.

Options

--version

show program's version and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

-v, --verbose

print additional information

--quiet

do no print any messages

--allowsrcmismatch

If a binary package is without a source package but there is a source package of same name but different version, match this binary package to that source package.

-o, --outfile=FILE

Set the output file FILE

--deb-native-arch=ARCH

Native architecture ARCH

--deb-host-arch=arch

Host architecture arch. Defaults to native architecture.

--deb-foreign-archs=archs

Comma-separated foreign architectures in addition to native and host architectures.

Examples

Get the source packages corresponding to all binary packages in myPackages.gz:

 botch-bin2src --deb-native-arch=amd64 myPackages.gz mySources.gz

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10
  3. 11
  4. 12
  5. 13

Bugs

See <http://bugs.debian.org/botch>.

Author

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate.

From botch 0.24-6+b1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.