Ubuntu Manpage: pbuilder - personal package builder

NAME

       pbuilder - personal package builder

SYNOPSIS

       pbuilder --create [options]

       pbuilder --update [options]

       pbuilder --build [options] .dsc-file

       pbuilder --execute [options] -- script [script options]

       pbuilder --clean

       pbuilder --login [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Front  end  program  to  the pbuilder suite of programs, used for creating and maintaining
       chroot environment and building Debian package in the chroot environment.

COMMANDS

       --create
              Creates a base.tgz for the specified distribution.

       --update
              Updates the base.tgz for the  specified  distribution.   Also,  by  specifying  the
              --override-config  option, it is possible to install a new apt-line using the given
              options and settings in the configuration file for the base.tgz.

              For example, to switch the distribution of an existing base.tgz to sid, specify the
              --distribution sid --override-config options to update.

       --build
              Builds  the  package specified by .dsc-file in the chroot environment created using
              the base.tgz

       --clean
              Cleans up the directory specified by  the  configuration  BUILDPLACE  and  APTCACHE
              specified in /etc/pbuilderrc

       --login
              Logs  into the chroot, and cleaned up afterwards.  Any changes you make will not be
              kept.  Only use this for temporary  and  debugging  purposes.   Do  not  bind-mount
              filesystems directly inside the chroot.  Use --bindmounts option to mount.

       --execute
              Execute a script or command inside the chroot, in a similar manner to --login

              The file specified in the command-line argument will be copied into the chroot, and
              invoked.

              The remaining arguments are passed on to the script.

       --dumpconfig
              Dumps configuration information, used for debugging.

       --debuild
              Builds a Debian package from the Debian source directory.   The  current  directory
              should have the usual debian/ directory.

              Same as pdebuild --use-pdebuild-internal

OPTIONS

The command is followed by options of the form --option name which will modify the
semantics as explained below. They are applied from left-to-right, and when there are
conflicting options, the rightmost options will have effect.

--basetgz [basetgz-location]
Specifies the location of base.tgz

This option will define the default distribution and apt-lines when used in
pbuilder --update and pbuilder --create

--buildplace [location of build]
Specifies the location where building and base.tgz updating and creation takes
place. This is a temporary work directory.

A subdirectory of that directory using the current PID of the process is used.

--buildresult [location to put build result]
Specifies the location the build result gets into after building. The deb files
and other files that have resulted from build is copied there. Note that the
default value is not the current directory, or .. but another place,
/var/cache/pbuilder/result This is to avoid overwriting already existing deb files
with the newly generated ones.

--mirror [mirror location]
Specifies the URL of Debian mirror to be specified in sources.list inside the
chroot. This option is only valid when distribution is being specified, for
--update and --build targets. The format is something like:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian which should point to your favourite mirror.

This option can optionally be omitted, and left blank, in which case, this part is
skipped.

Note that these URLs specified to pbuilder will be used from within the chroot, and
specifying file:/somewhere/ will most probably fail.

--othermirror [deb http://xxx/xxx/ ./ | other deb lines... ]
The lines which is added to the sources.list, delimited with | Like deb
http://local/mirror stable main|deb file:/usr/local/mirror ./

The deb lines here are the ones that will appear at the top of the sources.list
inside the chroot. Be sure to follow the syntax rules of sources.list(5). These
lines appear at the beginning of the constructed sources file, so this is the place
to list your local mirror sites; apt will then use them in preference to the ones
listed in --mirror .

--distribution [distribution]
Specifies the distribution used. The supported values are the ones debootstrap
supports, plus experimental which is special cased in pbuilder. For instance you
may use: sid or experimental .

--architecture [architecture]
Specifies the architecture to use when creating the chroot, defaults to the system
one. The supported values are the ones debootstrap supports.

--components [components]
Specifies the default distribution components to use. eg. "main contrib non-free".
Default is "main".

--override-config
Specify to use different apt set up inside the chroot than it was used for creating
the base.tgz. Specify this when you want to do pbuilder --update with a different
distribution target set up.

--distribution , --components , --mirror , --othermirror options are only valid
when --override-config option is specified in --update target, or when pbuilder
--create is being called.

--http-proxy [proxy]
Specifies the http proxy URL. Something like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/ should
do.

--aptcache [location of retrieved package files]
Specifies the location where the packages downloaded by apt should be cached. Use
--aptcache "" if you want caching to be turned off.

--debdelta
This option is used in the --update target, and enable the use of debdelta (if it
is already installed, otherwise will be installed the first time this option is
used).

--configfile [configuration file to load]
Additional configuration file to read after all other configuration files have been
read.

--hookdir [location of user scripts]
Specifies the location where scripts for user intervention during the --create and
--update process are stored. Currently scripts are executed at only one point, on
exit from the chrooted environment, just before either a create or a build
regenerated the base.tgz file. The script names must be in the form
X<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> much like boot scripts. The scripts must be
executable and may be either binaries or interpreted scripts. If it is a script in
other than Bourne Shell or Perl, it is up to the user to ensure the interpreter was
previously installed in the chrooted environment. Files ending in ~ or .bak are
ignored.

Although it may not seem necessary, pbuilder --update does not invoke the hooks if
--hookdir is empty, so if you want to avoid running hooks, run pbuilder with
--hookdir ""

If there is a distribution hook, for example, if there was a file sid inside the
hook directory, and the script was creating the chroot for sid distribution,
pbuilder will call debootstrap with that as the 4th parameter in the chroot
creation process. This allows for use of custom debootstrap hook script.

A<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is for --build target. It is executed
before build starts; after unpacking the build system, and unpacking the source,
and satisfying the build-dependency.

B<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed after build system finishes
building, successfully, before copying back the build result.

C<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed after build failure, before
cleanup.

D<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed before unpacking the source
inside the chroot, after setting up the chroot environment. Create $TMP, and
$TMPDIR if necessary.

This is called before build-dependency is satisfied. Also useful for calling apt-
get update

E<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed after pbuilder --update
and pbuilder --create finishes apt-get work with the chroot, before umounting
kernel file systems (/proc) and creating the tarball from the chroot.

F<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed just before user logs in, or
program starts executing, after chroot is created in --login or --execute target.

G<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed just after debootstrap
finishes, and configuration is loaded, and pbuilder starts mounting /proc and
invoking apt-get install in --create target.

H<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed just after unpacking the
chroot, mounting proc and any bind mount specified in BINDMOUNTS. It's executed
for every target that requires the unpacked chroot. It's useful if you want to
dynamically change the chroot guts before anything starts using it.

I<digit><digit><whatever-else-you-want> is executed after build system finishes
building, successfully, after copying back the build results.

--debbuildopts [options]

List of options that are passed on to dpkg-buildpackage. Multiple flags are
additive and appended ot the any value given in DEBBUILDOPTS as specified in
pbuilderrc. To clear the list of options, pass the empty string, e.g.
--debbuildopts "".

Multiple options are delimited with spaces, like --debbuildopts "-j100 -E"

--logfile [file to log]
Specifies the logfile to create. The messages generated during execution will be
written to the specified file, and the standard output.

--loglevel I
Specify how much output you want from pbuilder, valid values are E (errors only), W
(errors and warnings), I (errors, warnings and informational) and D (everything
including some debug messages).

--binary-arch

Specify to build architecture specific targets instead of all targets. Setting
--debbuildopts after this option will re-set some parts of the effect.

Use this option rather than using --debbuildopts -B

--bin-nmu [changelog message]
Specify to build a binary-NMU instead of a standard package. This option takes the
changelog message to pass to the binary-NMU package as parameter.

--bin-nmu-maintainer [maintainer]
Specify the maintainer name and email address to be displayed in the changes file.
If no maintainer is provided, it defaults to the last uploader.

--bin-nmu-version [version number]
Specify the number to append to the version in the binary-NMU package. If no
number is provided, it defaults to 1.

--bindmounts bind-mount-points
Bind-mount the specified directories to inside the chroot. bind-mount-points is a
space-delimited list of directories to bind-mount which should be specified in a
space-delimited manner, surrounded in double quotations, like: "/srv /somedir
/someotherdir"

--debootstrapopts --variant=buildd --keyring
/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg
Add extra command-line options to debootstrap.

Specify multiple options through multiple instance of this option, for example:

--debootstrapopts --arch=arm --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd

--debootstrap debootstrap
Use specified debootstrap implementation as debootstrap. Known implementations are
cdebootstrap and debootstrap and default is to use debootstrap.

--allow-untrusted
Allow untrusted (no key installed) and unsigned repositories. Warning: Enabling
this option may allow remote attackers to compromise the system. Better use signed
repositories and --keyring to add the key(s).

--keyring path/to/keyring
Additional keyrings to use for package verification with apt, not used for
debootstrap (use --debootstrapopts ). Use this to add (local) signed repositories.
By default the debian-archive-keyring package inside the chroot is used. Can be
specified multiple times.

--save-after-login

--save-after-exec
Save the chroot image after exiting from the chroot instead of deleting changes.
Effective for login and execute session.

--autocleanaptcache
Clean apt cache automatically, to run apt-get autoclean to only keep the packages
which are required for the version of Debian. This is useful when you keep a
aptcache directory for each distribution and want to keep the size of the aptcache
down.

--help

Show a brief help message.

MORE SPECIFIC OPTIONS

Some options are more involved to pbuilder internal than others. The following options are
available.

--removepackages [packages to remove]
Removes the packages on creating the base.tgz. Use this option to remove
potentially dangerous or undesirable packages, like lilo which nobody will need to
have inside a chroot.

Packages should be specified in a space-delimited manner, surrounded in double
quotations, like "lilo gcc mawk"

--extrapackages [packages to add]
Adds packages specified as an addition to the default, which is build-essential by
default. This is used in --build and --create (after successfully creating the
initial chroot) and --update.

The packages should be specified as a space-delimited list.

--debemail [maintainer-name <email-address>]

Specifies that dpkg-buildpackage be called with -mmaintainer-name <email-address>
instead of default value specified in the environment variable, or pbuilderrc

This option is almost obsolete, use --debbuildopts instead

--pkgname-logfile
Alternative option to --logfile option. Automatically creates a logfile that is
named by the .dsc file name, only really applicable for --build target.

The file extension is specified by PKGNAME_LOGFILE_EXTENSION in pbuilderrc

--aptconfdir [APT configuration directory to use]
Uses the apt configuration file found in the specified directory as the chroot
configuration. /etc/apt is one example, so that the same configuration can be
used inside the chroot.

This option overrides other options, and may cause some inconsistency problems.

--timeout [timeout in sleep time]
Time out building after sleeping set time. Specify something like --timeout 10h in
the command line. Default is no timeout.

--no-targz
Not using base.tgz for operation. The --buildplace will not be deleted and
reconstructed from a .tar.gz file. Also, pbuilder will not add its process ID to
the --buildplace as it usually would.

Useful when experimenting with chroots, or trying to create chroots outside control
of pbuilder.

--compressprog
Program to use for compression and decompression of the base.tgz. The default is
to use gzip, and any program that can be used for the --use-compress-program option
of tar can be given.

If set to "pigz", compression and decompression is gzip compatible but will use all
available CPUs.

--twice
Build the package twice in a row. Useful to ensure the package cleans up properly.
The resulting packages are the ones from the second build.

--preserve-buildplace
Do not clean the --buildplace if it has the same contents as the .tar.gz file, and
no modifications are done.

For preserving the build place for --create and --update targets, see --debug
option.

As with --no-targz, suppresses appending pbuilder's process ID to the --buildplace.

This is useful if you want to attempt to build a large number of packages
successively, but you expect that many of them cannot have their build dependencies
satisfied.

It will clean up the build place on failure, or after a successful build.

--debug

Turn on Debug mode of pbuilder, to be verbose about errors, and try to avoid
cleanup processing when error happens in --update and --create targets.

--inputfile filename

Add extra file to be copied to /tmp/buildd inside the build environment.

available in --build and --login and --execute targets.

FILES

       /etc/pbuilderrc
              The system-wide configuration file for pbuilder.

       /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
              The  default  settings  for  pbuilder,  used as fallback for all values that is not
              specified in /etc/pbuilderrc.

       ${HOME}/.pbuilderrc
              The personal configuration file for pbuilder, which overrides settings set in other
              configuration files.

              Note that ${HOME} is usually /root (if you are running pbuilder through sudo).

EXAMPLES

       pbuilder --create

              # pbuilder --create
              Distribution is sid.
              Building the build environment
               -> running debootstrap
              /usr/sbin/debootstrap
              I: Retrieving Release
              I: Retrieving Packages
              I: Validating Packages
                   .
                   .

       pbuilder --update

              # pbuilder --update
              W: /home/dancer/.pbuilderrc does not exist
              Building the build Environment
               -> extracting base tarball [/var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz]
                   .
                   .

       pbuilder --build

              # pbuilder --build dsh_*.dsc
              I: using fakeroot in build.
              Current time: Sat Jan 20 12:03:34 JST 2007
              pbuilder-time-stamp: 1169262214
              Building the build Environment
               -> extracting base tarball [/home/dancer/DEBIAN/pbuilder/pbuilder/testsuite/tmp.FeeAX18779/testimage]
               -> creating local configuration
                   .
                   .

BUGS

       This program is starting to have too many options already.

AUTHOR

       Initial  coding, and main maintenance is done by Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>.  User
       hooks code added by Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>

       The homepage is available at http://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org