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NAME
sbuild-createchroot - create sbuild chroot
SYNOPSIS
sbuild-createchroot [-h|--help | -V|--version] [--verbose] [--arch=arch] [--chroot-
prefix=prefix] [--chroot-suffix=suffix] [--chroot-mode=schroot|sudo|unshare] [--foreign]
[--resolve-deps | --no-resolve-deps] [--merged-usr | --no-merged-usr | --auto-merged-usr]
[--keep-debootstrap-dir] [--debootstrap=debootstrap]
[--include=package1[,package2,[packagen]]] [--exclude=package1[,package2,[packagen]]]
[--components=component1[,component2,[componentn]]] [--keyring=keyring-file]
[--setup-only] [--make-sbuild-tarball=file] [--keep-sbuild-chroot-dir] [--no-deb-src]
[--alias=alias] [--extra-repository=spec] [--command-prefix=prefix] SUITE TARGET-DIRECTORY
[DEBIAN-MIRROR-URI [SCRIPT]]
buildd-create-chroot USER SUITE TARGET-DIRECTORY [DEBIAN-MIRROR-URI]
DESCRIPTION
sbuild-createchroot runs debootstrap(1) to create a chroot suitable for building packages
with sbuild. Note that while debootstrap may be used directly, sbuild-createchroot
performs additional setup tasks such as adding additional packages and configuring various
files in the chroot. Invoking sbuild-createchroot is functionally equivalent to running
debootstrap --variant=buildd --include=fakeroot,build-essential, then editing
/etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/hosts by hand.
The newly-created chroot is set up to work with schroot(1) by creating a chroot definition
file under /etc/schroot/chroot.d. This should be edited to finish the chroot
configuration after sbuild-createchroot has completed.
buildd-create-chroot, like sbuild-createchroot, runs debootstrap(1) to create a chroot for
package building. However, this creates a chroot specifically for buildd(1) with an
additional mandatory option to specify a user who will be granted sudo access inside the
chroot. This script mainly differs in its additional customisation of
/etc/apt/sources.list to use incoming.debian.org and security-master.debian.org. It also
removes some packages from the newly-created chroot. Unless you are setting up an
official Debian build daemon, sbuild-createchroot should be used instead. The extra
functionality will be merged into sbuild-createchroot in the future.
OPTIONS
Actions
-h, --help
Display this manual.
-V, --version
Print version information.
General options
-v, --verbose
Print all messages.
Debootstrap options
Note that debootstrap(1) is the canonical reference for the meaning of the options; they
are passed directly to debootstrap.
--arch=arch
Set the target architecture. This may be used if dpkg is not already installed.
See also --foreign, below.
--chroot-suffix=suffix
Add a custom suffix to the chroot name. Defaults to '-sbuild'.
--chroot-prefix=prefix
Add a custom prefix to the chroot name. Defaults to SUITE. This is useful to
create variants of a base suite like stretch-backports to which the backports
archive can be manually added after the base chroot was created using sbuild-shell.
This way, a normal stretch chroot and a stretch-backports chroot can exist side-by-
side. Besides this common use case, this functionality can also be used to create
chroots with any other type of customization. It is a shortcut for creating a base
chroot and then having to manually copy it and edit the configuration files.
--chroot-mode=schroot|sudo|unshare
The sbuild chroot backend to generate the chroot for. The autopkgtest backend is
not supported by this method because of the diversity of container types it
supports. To generate a chroot for schroot and sudo, sbuild-createchroot must be
executed with superuser privileges (for example by using sudo). Because of
backwards compatibility, choosing schroot implies sudo (but not the other way
round). Choosing unshare requires the --make-sbuild-tarball option. Creating a
chroot for the unshare backend can be done by a normal user (without sudo) but it
requires Linux user namespaces to be enabled (via "sysctl -w
kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1"). Chroot tarballs created for the unshare
backend are also compatible with the schroot backend if a respective schroot config
file is manually created by the user or by running sbuild-createchroot with the
--setup-only option. Defaults to 'schroot'.
--foreign
Only perform the initial unpack phase of bootstrapping. This is required if the
target and host architectures do not match. Note that debootstrap requires running
by hand to complete installation; run the debootstrap /debootstrap/debootstrap
installed in TARGET-DIRECTORY to complete the installation.
--resolve-deps
Automatically resolve missing dependencies. This is the default.
--no-resolve-deps
Do not automatically resolve missing dependencies.
--keep-debootstrap-dir
Don't delete the /debootstrap directory in TARGET-DIRECTORY after completing the
installation.
--debootstrap=debootstrap
Define a custom debootstrap variant. Defaults to 'debootstrap'.
--include=package1[,package2,[packagen]]
Comma separated list of packages which will be added to the list of packages to
download and extract.
--exclude=package1[,package2,[packagen]]
Comma separated list of packages which will be removed from the list of packages to
download and extract. Note that this can remove essential packages, so use with
extreme care.
--components=component1[,component2,[componentn]]
Comma separated list of archive components to use (e.g. ‘main’, ‘contrib’, ‘non-
free’). Defaults to ‘main’.
--keyring=keyring-file
Download signatures for retrieved Release files and check them against keyring-
file. By default /etc/apt/trusted.gpg is used. Set to an empty string to disable
signature checking.
--merged-usr
Create a chroot in which /bin, /sbin and /lib* are symbolic links to their
counterparts in /usr.
--no-merged-usr
Create a chroot in which /bin, /sbin and /lib* are ordinary directories distinct
from their counterparts in /usr. This is the default.
--auto-merged-usr
Do not specify whether /bin, /sbin and /lib* are symbolic links to their
counterparts in /usr. In this case debootstrap will use its default behaviour
(which is suite-specific). This might become the default in a future version of
sbuild-createchroot.
SUITE The distribution to bootstrap (e.g. ‘stretch[cq], ‘buster’, ‘bullseye’, ‘sid’). A
complete list may be found in /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts.
TARGET-DIRECTORY
The directory to create the chroot in. The directory will be created if it does
not already exist.
DEBIAN-MIRROR-URI
An http://, file:///, or ssh:/// URI pointing to a suitable archive mirror.
Defaults to http://deb.debian.org/debian.
SCRIPT debootstrap script to run. Not typically required.
sbuild-createchroot behaviour
--setup-only
Don't run debootstrap. Only perform the setup tasks on an already existing chroot.
This is useful for converting an existing chroot for use with sbuild which has
already been created using a tool such as debootstrap. Some configuration steps
can only be carried out on a directory chroot and thus, this option is not useful
with the unshare backend.
--make-sbuild-tarball=file
Create a bootstrapped file type chroot ready for use with sbuild and save it as
file. The compression format used for the tarball is dependent on the file
extension used in file. See the TARBALL FILE section for more details.
--keep-sbuild-chroot-dir
Don't delete the directory used for creating a file type chroot. This option does
nothing if not creating a file type chroot.
--no-deb-src
Don't add a deb-src line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file in the TARGET-DIRECTORY
after the debootstrap process. This is useful in situation when it is known that
sbuild will never have to download the source package itself but is always given an
already downloaded dsc. In that case, this option will help to save bandwidth and
disk space because the source indices don't have to be downloaded and later
continually updated.
--alias=alias
Add an alternative name that the chroot will be known by. This option can be given
multiple times to add more than one alias. Using an alias is useful for chroots of
distributions that are known by more than one name. For example Debian unstable is
also known as sid. Additionally, sbuild chooses the distribution by the latest
changelog entry which could list UNRELEASED for packages that the maintainer is
currently working on. For Debian it thus makes sense to add UNRELEASED as an alias
for a Debian unstable chroot. This option is only allowed when choosing --chroot-
mode=schroot. For similar functionality with --chroot-mode=unshare you can work
with symlinks. See the EXAMPLES section for how to use this option in practice.
--extra-repository=spec
Add a repository to the list of apt sources. The repository specification is a line
suitable for an apt sources.list(5) file. For instance, you might use
--extra-repository="deb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main" to allow
packages in the experimental distribution to fulfill build-dependencies. Note that
the build chroot must already trust the key of this repository. See the EXAMPLES
section for how to combine this option with --chroot-prefix and --alias.
--command-prefix=prefix
Set the chroot command-prefix option as specified. A common use-case is to specify
eatmydata, thereby preventing all commands executed in the chroot from syncing data
to disk. This option is only allowed when choosing --chroot-mode=schroot. See
schroot.conf(5) for more details.
TARBALL FILE
When creating an sbuild tarball file, the compression format used to generate the tarball
depends on the entension used in file. Here is a listing of the extensions that will be
detected and what format the tarball will be generated as.
*.tar Generates an uncompressed tarball.
*.tar.gz|*.tgz
Generates a compressed tarball using gzip.
*.tar.bz2|*.tbz
Generates a compressed tarball using bzip2.
*.tar.lz|*.tlz
Generates a compressed tarball using lzip.
*.tar.xz|*.txz
Generates a compressed tarball using xz.
If no extension is specified, sbuild-createchroot will rename file to file.tar.gz and
generate file.tar.gz as a compressed tarball using gzip.
EXAMPLES
To create a bootstrapped file type sid (unstable) chroot ready for use with sbuild and
schroot (the default backend), saved in /srv/chroot/unstable-amd64.tar.gz using the
deb.debian.org Debian http mirror redirector service and using a temporary directory as
the target:
% sudo sbuild-createchroot \
--make-sbuild-tarball=/srv/chroot/unstable-amd64.tar.gz \
unstable `mktemp -d` \
http://deb.debian.org/debian↵
To create a plain type sid (unstable) schroot chroot in /srv/chroot/unstable using the
deb.debian.org Debian http mirror redirector service and with aliases for unstable and
UNRELEASED:
% sudo sbuild-createchroot unstable /srv/chroot/unstable-amd64 \
--alias=sid --alias=UNRELEASED \
http://deb.debian.org/debian↵
To create a schroot chroot to build for stretch backports:
% sudo sbuild-createchroot \
--extra-repository="deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main" \
--chroot-prefix=stretch-backports \
stretch /srv/chroot/stretch-backports-amd64 \
http://deb.debian.org/debian↵
To create a schroot chroot to build for experimental using a custom chroot prefix:
% sudo sbuild-createchroot \
--extra-repository="deb http://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main" \
--chroot-prefix=experimental \
unstable /srv/chroot/unstable-experimental-amd64 \
http://deb.debian.org/debian↵
Creating a chroot for the unshare backend does not require superuser privileges (no sudo).
The path for the tarball is the default path expected by sbuild for the unshare backend:
% sbuild-createchroot --chroot-mode=unshare \
--make-sbuild-tarball ~/.cache/sbuild/unstable-amd64.tar.gz \
unstable `mktemp -d` http://deb.debian.org/debian/ \
HISTORY
sbuild-createchroot was previously known as buildd.chroot. buildd.chroot performed
exactly the same tasks, but additionally created a number of directories in the chroot for
use by sbuild. This is now done by schroot(1).
AUTHORS
Roger Leigh.
Francesco P. Lovergine.
Andres Mejia.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2004 Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>.
Copyright © 2007-2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.
Copyright © 2010 Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>.
SEE ALSO
debootstrap(8), schroot(1), sbuild(1), sbuild-setup(7).