Ubuntu Manpage: dpkg-buildpackage - build binary or source packages from sources

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NAME

       dpkg-buildpackage - build binary or source packages from sources

SYNOPSIS

       dpkg-buildpackage [option...]

DESCRIPTION

dpkg-buildpackage is a program that automates the process of building a Debian package. It consists of
the following steps:

1. It prepares the build environment by setting various environment variables (see ENVIRONMENT), runs the
init hook, and calls dpkg-source --before-build (unless -T or --target has been used).

2. It checks that the build-dependencies and build-conflicts are satisfied (unless -d or
--no-check-builddeps is specified).

3. If one or more specific targets have been selected with the -T or --target option, it calls those
targets and stops here. Otherwise it runs the preclean hook and calls fakeroot debian/rules clean to
clean the build-tree (unless -nc or --no-pre-clean is specified).

4. It runs the source hook and calls dpkg-source -b to generate the source package (if a source build has
been requested with --build or equivalent options).

5. It runs the build hook and calls debian/rules build-target, then runs the binary hook followed by
fakeroot debian/rules binary-target (unless a source-only build has been requested with --build=source
or equivalent options). Note that build-target and binary-target are either build and binary (default
case, or if an any and all build has been requested with --build or equivalent options), or build-arch
and binary-arch (if an any and not all build has been requested with --build or equivalent options),
or build-indep and binary-indep (if an all and not any build has been requested with --build or
equivalent options).

6. It runs the buildinfo hook and calls dpkg-genbuildinfo to generate a .buildinfo file. Several
dpkg-buildpackage options are forwarded to dpkg-genbuildinfo.

7. It runs the changes hook and calls dpkg-genchanges to generate a .changes file. The name of the
.changes file will depend on the type of build and will be as specific as necessary but not more; for
a build that includes any the name will be source-name_binary-version_arch.changes, or otherwise for a
build that includes all the name will be source-name_binary-version_all.changes, or otherwise for a
build that includes source the name will be source-name_source-version_source.changes. Many
dpkg-buildpackage options are forwarded to dpkg-genchanges.

8. It runs the postclean hook and if -tc or --post-clean is specified, it will call fakeroot debian/rules
clean again.

9. It calls dpkg-source --after-build.

10.
It runs the check hook and calls a package checker for the .changes file (if a command is specified in
DEB_CHECK_COMMAND or with --check-command).

11.
It runs the sign hook and calls gpg2 or gpg (as long as it is not an UNRELEASED build, or --no-sign is
specified) to sign the .dsc file (if any, unless -us or --unsigned-source is specified), the
.buildinfo file (unless -ui, --unsigned-buildinfo, -uc or --unsigned-changes is specified) and the
.changes file (unless -uc or --unsigned-changes is specified).

12.
It runs the done hook.

OPTIONS

All long options can be specified both on the command line and in the dpkg-buildpackage system and user
configuration files. Each line in the configuration file is either an option (exactly the same as the
command line option but without leading hyphens) or a comment (if it starts with a ‘#’).

--build=type
Specifies the build type from a comma-separated list of components (since dpkg 1.18.5). Passed to
dpkg-genchanges.

The allowed values are:

source Builds the source package. Note: when using this value standalone and if what you want is
simply to (re-)build the source package, using dpkg-source is always better as it does not
require any build dependencies to be installed to be able to call the clean target.

any Builds the architecture specific binary packages.

all Builds the architecture independent binary packages.

binary Builds the architecture specific and independent binary packages. This is an alias for
any,all.

full Builds everything. This is an alias for source,any,all, and the same as the default case
when no build option is specified.

-g Equivalent to --build=source,all (since dpkg 1.17.11).

-G Equivalent to --build=source,any (since dpkg 1.17.11).

-b Equivalent to --build=binary or --build=any,all.

-B Equivalent to --build=any.

-A Equivalent to --build=all.

-S Equivalent to --build=source.

-F Equivalent to --build=full, --build=source,binary or --build=source,any,all (since dpkg 1.15.8).

--target=target[,...]
--target target[,...]
-T, --rules-target=target[,...]
Calls debian/rules target once per target specified, after having setup the build environment
(except for calling dpkg-source --before-build), and stops the package build process here (since
dpkg 1.15.0, long option since dpkg 1.18.8, multi-target support since dpkg 1.18.16). If
--as-root is also given, then the command is executed as root (see --root-command). Note that
known targets that are required to be run as root do not need this option (i.e. the clean, binary,
binary-arch and binary-indep targets).

--as-root
Only meaningful together with --target (since dpkg 1.15.0). Requires that the target be run with
root rights.

-si
-sa
-sd
-vversion
-Cchanges-description
-m, --release-by=maintainer-address
-e, --build-by=maintainer-address
Passed unchanged to dpkg-genchanges. See its manual page.

-a, --host-arch architecture
Specify the Debian architecture we build for (long option since dpkg 1.17.17). The architecture
of the machine we build on is determined automatically, and is also the default for the host
machine.

-t, --host-type gnu-system-type
Specify the GNU system type we build for (long option since dpkg 1.17.17). It can be used in
place of --host-arch or as a complement to override the default GNU system type of the host Debian
architecture.

--target-arch architecture
Specify the Debian architecture the binaries built will build for (since dpkg 1.17.17). The
default value is the host machine.

--target-type gnu-system-type
Specify the GNU system type the binaries built will build for (since dpkg 1.17.17). It can be
used in place of --target-arch or as a complement to override the default GNU system type of the
target Debian architecture.

-P, --build-profiles=profile[,...]
Specify the profile(s) we build, as a comma-separated list (since dpkg 1.17.2, long option since
dpkg 1.18.8). The default behavior is to build for no specific profile. Also sets them (as a
space separated list) as the DEB_BUILD_PROFILES environment variable which allows, for example,
debian/rules files to use this information for conditional builds.

-j, --jobs[=jobs|auto]
Number of jobs allowed to be run simultaneously, number of jobs matching the number of online
processors if auto is specified (since dpkg 1.17.10), or unlimited number if jobs is not
specified, equivalent to the make(1) option of the same name (since dpkg 1.14.7, long option since
dpkg 1.18.8). Will add itself to the MAKEFLAGS environment variable, which should cause all
subsequent make invocations to inherit the option, thus forcing the parallel setting on the
packaging (and possibly the upstream build system if that uses make) regardless of their support
for parallel builds, which might cause build failures. Also adds parallel=jobs or parallel to the
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable which allows debian/rules files to use this information for
their own purposes. The -j value will override the parallel=jobs or parallel option in the
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable. Note that the auto value will get replaced by the actual
number of currently active processors, and as such will not get propagated to any child process.
If the number of online processors cannot be inferred then the code will fallback to using serial
execution (since dpkg 1.18.15), although this should only happen on exotic and unsupported
systems.

-J, --jobs-try[=jobs|auto]
This option (since dpkg 1.18.2, long option since dpkg 1.18.8) is equivalent to the -j option
except that it does not set the MAKEFLAGS environment variable, and as such it is safer to use
with any package including those that are not parallel-build safe.

auto is the default behavior (since dpkg 1.18.11). Setting the number of jobs to 1 will restore a
serial behavior.

-D, --check-builddeps
Check build dependencies and conflicts; abort if unsatisfied (long option since dpkg 1.18.8).
This is the default behavior.

-d, --no-check-builddeps
Do not check build dependencies and conflicts (long option since dpkg 1.18.8).

--ignore-builtin-builddeps
Do not check built-in build dependencies and conflicts (since dpkg 1.18.2). These are the
distribution specific implicit build dependencies usually required in a build environment, the so
called Build-Essential package set.

-nc, --no-pre-clean
Do not clean the source tree (long option since dpkg 1.18.8). Implies -b if nothing else has been
selected among -F, -g, -G, -B, -A or -S. Implies -d with -S (since dpkg 1.18.0).

--pre-clean
Clean the source tree before building (since dpkg 1.18.8).

-tc, --post-clean
Clean the source tree (using gain-root-command debian/rules clean) after the package has been
built (long option since dpkg 1.18.8).

-r, --root-command=gain-root-command
When dpkg-buildpackage needs to execute part of the build process as root, it prefixes the command
it executes with gain-root-command if one has been specified (long option since dpkg 1.18.8).
Otherwise, if none has been specified, fakeroot will be used by default, if the command is
present. gain-root-command should start with the name of a program on the PATH and will get as
arguments the name of the real command to run and the arguments it should take. gain-root-command
can include parameters (they must be space-separated) but no shell metacharacters. gain-root-
command might typically be fakeroot, sudo, super or really. su is not suitable, since it can only
invoke the user's shell with -c instead of passing arguments individually to the command to be
run.

-R, --rules-file=rules-file
Building a Debian package usually involves invoking debian/rules as a command with several
standard parameters (since dpkg 1.14.17, long option since dpkg 1.18.8). With this option it's
possible to use another program invocation to build the package (it can include space separated
parameters). Alternatively it can be used to execute the standard rules file with another make
program (for example by using /usr/local/bin/make -f debian/rules as rules-file).

--check-command=check-command
Command used to check the .changes file itself and any artifact built referenced in the file
(since dpkg 1.17.6). The command should take the .changes pathname as an argument. This command
will usually be lintian.

--check-option=opt
Pass option opt to the check-command specified with DEB_CHECK_COMMAND or --check-command (since
dpkg 1.17.6). Can be used multiple times.

--hook-hook-name=hook-command
Set the specified shell code hook-command as the hook hook-name, which will run at the times
specified in the run steps (since dpkg 1.17.6). The hooks will always be executed even if the
following action is not performed (except for the binary hook). All the hooks will run in the
unpacked source directory.

Note: Hooks can affect the build process, and cause build failures if their commands fail, so
watch out for unintended consequences.

The current hook-name supported are:

init preclean source build binary buildinfo changes postclean check sign done

The hook-command supports the following substitution format string, which will get applied to it
before execution:

%% A single % character.

%a A boolean value (0 or 1), representing whether the following action is being performed.

%p The source package name.

%v The source package version.

%s The source package version (without the epoch).

%u The upstream version.

--buildinfo-option=opt
Pass option opt to dpkg-genbuildinfo (since dpkg 1.18.11). Can be used multiple times.

-p, --sign-command=sign-command
When dpkg-buildpackage needs to execute GPG to sign a source control (.dsc) file or a .changes
file it will run sign-command (searching the PATH if necessary) instead of gpg2 or gpg (long
option since dpkg 1.18.8). sign-command will get all the arguments that gpg2 or gpg would have
gotten. sign-command should not contain spaces or any other shell metacharacters.

-k, --sign-key=key-id
Specify a key-ID to use when signing packages (long option since dpkg 1.18.8).

-us, --unsigned-source
Do not sign the source package (long option since dpkg 1.18.8).

-ui, --unsigned-buildinfo
Do not sign the .buildinfo file (since dpkg 1.18.19).

-uc, --unsigned-changes
Do not sign the .buildinfo and .changes files (long option since dpkg 1.18.8).

--no-sign
Do not sign any file, this includes the source package, the .buildinfo file and the .changes file
(since dpkg 1.18.20).

--force-sign
Force the signing of the resulting files (since dpkg 1.17.0), regardless of -us,
--unsigned-source, -ui, --unsigned-buildinfo, -uc, --unsigned-changes or other internal
heuristics.

-sn
-ss
-sA
-sk
-su
-sr
-sK
-sU
-sR
-i, --diff-ignore[=regex]
-I, --tar-ignore[=pattern]
-z, --compression-level=level
-Z, --compression=compressor
Passed unchanged to dpkg-source. See its manual page.

--source-option=opt
Pass option opt to dpkg-source (since dpkg 1.15.6). Can be used multiple times.

--changes-option=opt
Pass option opt to dpkg-genchanges (since dpkg 1.15.6). Can be used multiple times.

--admindir=dir
--admindir dir
Change the location of the dpkg database (since dpkg 1.14.0). The default location is
/var/lib/dpkg.

-?, --help
Show the usage message and exit.

--version
Show the version and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

External environment
DEB_CHECK_COMMAND
If set, it will be used as the command to check the .changes file (since dpkg 1.17.6). Overridden
by the --check-command option.

DEB_SIGN_KEYID
If set, it will be used to sign the .changes and .dsc files (since dpkg 1.17.2). Overridden by
the --sign-key option.

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
If set, it will contain a space-separated list of options that might affect the build process in
debian/rules, and the behavior of some dpkg commands.

With nocheck the DEB_CHECK_COMMAND variable will be ignored. With parallel=N the parallel jobs
will be set to N, overridden by the --jobs-try option.

DEB_BUILD_PROFILES
If set, it will be used as the active build profile(s) for the package being built (since dpkg
1.17.2). It is a space separated list of profile names. Overridden by the -P option.

DPKG_COLORS
Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5). The currently accepted values are: auto (default),
always and never.

Internal environment
Even if dpkg-buildpackage exports some variables, debian/rules should not rely on their presence and
should instead use the respective interface to retrieve the needed values, because that file is the main
entry point to build packages and running it standalone should be supported.

DEB_BUILD_*
DEB_HOST_*
DEB_TARGET_*
dpkg-architecture is called with the -a and -t parameters forwarded. Any variable that is output
by its -s option is integrated in the build environment.

DEB_RULES_REQUIRES_ROOT
This variable is set to the value obtained from the Rules-Requires-Root field or from the command-
line. When set, it will be a valid value for the Rules-Requires-Root field. It is used to notify
debian/rules whether the rootless-builds.txt specification is supported.

DEB_GAIN_ROOT_CMD
This variable is set to gain-root-command when the field Rules-Requires-Root is set to a value
different to no and binary-targets.

SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
This variable is set to the Unix timestamp since the epoch of the latest entry in
debian/changelog, if it is not already defined.

FILES

       /etc/dpkg/buildpackage.conf
              System wide configuration file

       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dpkg/buildpackage.conf or
       $HOME/.config/dpkg/buildpackage.conf
              User configuration file.

NOTES

   Compiler flags are no longer exported
       Between dpkg 1.14.17 and 1.16.1, dpkg-buildpackage exported compiler  flags  (CFLAGS,  CXXFLAGS,  FFLAGS,
       CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS) with values as returned by dpkg-buildflags. This is no longer the case.

   Default build targets
       dpkg-buildpackage  is  using  the build-arch and build-indep targets since dpkg 1.16.2. Those targets are
       thus mandatory. But to avoid breakages of existing packages, and  ease  the  transition,  if  the  source
       package does not build both architecture independent and dependent binary packages (since dpkg 1.18.8) it
       will fallback to use the build target if make -f debian/rules -qn build-target returns 2 as exit code.

BUGS

       It should be possible to specify spaces and shell metacharacters and  initial  arguments  for  gain-root-
       command and sign-command.