Ubuntu Manpage: pbuilder - personal package builder

NAME

       pbuilder - personal package builder

SYNOPSIS

       pbuilder create [options]

       pbuilder update [options]

       pbuilder build [options] .dsc-file

       pbuilder clean

       pbuilder login [options]

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

       pbuilder dumpconfig

       pbuilder debuild [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
       up
       u
              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
       b
              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
       l
              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
       e
              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 build architecture (as described in dpkg-architecture(1)). It'll be
the architecture used when creating the chroot, defaults to the system one. The
supported values are the ones debootstrap supports.

--host-arch [architecture]
Specifies the host architecture (as described in dpkg-architecture(1)). Defaults
to the build architecture. Use this flag if you are interested in doing a cross
architecture build. pbuilder will make sure the environment is correctly set up,
including adding nocheck to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES.

--no-auto-cross
Suppress automatic addition of nocheck to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS and DEB_BUILD_PROFILES
in case of cross-building. All the other configuration (adding the architecture to
dpkg, updating the apt cache, installing the cross toolchain, passing --host-arch
to dpkg-buildpackage, etc) is done nonetheless; specify this flag twice to prevent
that from happening too.

--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.

--use-network [yes|no]
Specify yes when you do not want to disable network access during build. Network
is not available on a Debian buildd, so you might want to keep the default of no.
Disabling network access currently only works on Linux.

--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. Scripts are executed inside the chroot. 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.

In your hook the following environment variables are available:
PBUILDER_OPERATION a string indicating which of the pbuilder command has been
called. Possible values are build, clean, create, debuild, dumpconfig, execute,
login, update.
BUILDDIR the place where the build happens, the sources are inside a directory
named <package>-<version>.
DISTRIBUTION the name of the used distribution, as provided by the DISTRIBUTION
config value, or the --distribution command line flag.
BUILD_ARCH contains the build architecture, the architecture the package is
building on.
HOST_ARCH contains the host architecture, the architecture the package is building
for.

--debbuildopts [options]

List of options that are passed on to dpkg-buildpackage. Multiple flags are
additive and are appended to the value of 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"

--profiles [profile1[,profile2]]
Comma-separated list of build profiles to use during the build. It overrides a
possible DEB_BUILD_PROFILES environment variable already defined.

--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 only architecture specific targets instead of all targets. This
instructs pbuilder to respect only Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Arch, Build-
Conflicts, Build-Conflicts-Arch source relationships, and calls dpkg-buildpackage
with -B.

Setting --debbuildopts after this option will re-set some parts of the effects.

Use this option rather than using --debbuildopts -B.

--binary-indep

Specify to build only architecture independent targets instead of all targets.
This instructs pbuilder to respect only Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, Build-
Conflicts, Build-Conflicts-Indep source relationships, and calls dpkg-buildpackage
with -A.

Setting --debbuildopts after this option will re-set some parts of the effect.

Use this option rather than using --debbuildopts -A.

--source-only-changes
Specify to generate an additional .changes file for a source-only upload, whilst
still producing a full .changes file for any binary packages built.

--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.

--bin-nmu-timestamp [timestamp]
Specify the timestamp to use in the generated chagnelog entry. If no timestamp is
provided, it defaults to current time. If you want to specify the time as a number
of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, prepend an at sign (@) like @1478786376.

--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.

Keyrings are copied into /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d in the chroot. APT supports it
since version 0.7.25.1, firstly available in the Debian release codenamed "squeeze"
(released on 2011). For older chroots, use a G hook to run apt-key manually.

--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, or by specifying
--extrapackages multiple times.

--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 of the base.tgz. The default is to use gzip, and
any program that can be used to compress data using a pipe can be used.

If set to "pigz", compression and decompression is gzip compatible but will use all
available CPUs.
If set to "cat", there will be no compression at all (so compression/decompression
will be a lot faster but takes much more space on the disk).

--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 BUILDDIR 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 https://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org