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authorWojtek Kosior <koszko@koszko.org>2022-06-15 11:09:58 +0200
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.\"
.\" Available under the terms of Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal.
-.TH HYDRILLA-BUILDER 1 2022-04-22 "Hydrilla 1.0" "Hydrilla Manual"
+.TH HYDRILLA-BUILDER 1 2022-06-14 "Hydrilla 1.1" "Hydrilla Manual"
.SH NAME
-hydrilla-builder \- Generate packages to be served by Hydrilla
+hydrilla\-builder \- Generate packages to be served by Hydrilla
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B "hydrilla\-builder \-\-help"
@@ -21,19 +21,24 @@ hydrilla-builder \- Generate packages to be served by Hydrilla
names.)
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.I hydrilla-builder
+.I hydrilla\-builder
is a tool which takes a Hydrilla source package and generates files of a
built package, suitable for serving by the Hydrilla server.
-As of Hydrilla version 1.0
-.I hydrilla-builder
-does not yet perform nor trigger actions like compilation, minification or
-bundling of source code files. Its main function is to automate the process
-of computing SHA256 cryptographic sums of package files and including them
-in JSON definitions.
+The main function of
+.I hydrilla\-builder
+is to automate the process of computing SHA256 cryptographic sums of package
+files and including them in JSON definitions.
+
+This tool does not perform nor trigger actions like compilation, minification or
+bundling of source code files. When this is needed,
+.I hydrilla\-builder
+instead relies on facilities already provided by other software distribution
+systems like APT and extracts the requested files from .deb packages. This
+feature is called \*(lqpiggybacking\*(rq.
In addition,
-.B hydrilla\-builder
+.I hydrilla\-builder
can generate an SPDX report from source package if the
\*(lqreuse_generate_spdx_report\*(rq property is set to true in index.json.
@@ -65,17 +70,25 @@ will also be included in the generated source archive as
present in the source directory.
.TP
+.BI \-p " PIGGYBACK_PATH" "\fR,\fP \-\^\-piggyback\-files=" PIGGYBACK_PATH
+Read and write foreign package archives under
+.IR PIGGYBACK_PATH .
+If not specified, a default value is computed by appending
+\*(lq.foreign-packages\*(rq to the
+.I SOURCE
+directory path.
+
+.TP
.BI \-d " DESTINATION" "\fR,\fP \-\^\-dstdir=" DESTINATION
Write generated files under
.IR DESTINATION .
-Files are written in such way that
.I DESTINATION
-is valid for being passed to Hydrilla to serve packages from.
+can then be passed to Hydrilla to serve packages from.
.TP
.B \-\^\-version
Show version information for this instance of
-.I hydrilla-builder
+.I hydrilla\-builder
on the standard output and exit successfully.
.SH "EXIT STATUS"