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 runs the preinit hook before reading any source file. 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; the name will be:

source-name_binary-version_arch.changes
for a build that includes any

source-name_binary-version_all.changes
otherwise for a build that includes all

source-name_source-version_source.changes.
otherwise for a build that includes source

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 signs using the OpenPGP backend (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). All the specified components get combined to select the single build type to
use, which implies a single build run with a single .changes file generated. 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 from a clean source tree, using dpkg-source directly
is always a better option as it does not require any build dependencies to be
installed which are otherwise needed 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
-mmaintainer-address
-emaintainer-address
Passed unchanged to dpkg-genchanges. See its manual page.

--build-by=maintainer-address
--source-by=maintainer-address (since dpkg 1.21.10)
Pass as -m to dpkg-genchanges. See its manual page.

--release-by=maintainer-address
--changed-by=maintainer-address (since dpkg 1.21.10)
Pass as -e 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]
Specifies the number of jobs allowed to be run simultaneously (since dpkg 1.14.7, long
option since dpkg 1.18.8). The 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. The default behavior is auto (since dpkg 1.18.11) in non-forced mode
(since dpkg 1.21.10), and as such it is always safer to use with any package including
those that are not parallel-build safe. Setting the number of jobs to 1 will restore
serial execution.

Will add parallel=jobs or parallel to the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable which
allows debian/rules files to opt-in to use this information for their own purposes.
The jobs 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
above.

Since the behavior for -j changed in dpkg 1.21.10 to the opt-in mode, you can use this
option instead if you need to guarantee semantics across dpkg release series.

--jobs-force[=jobs|auto]
This option (since dpkg 1.21.10) is equivalent to the --jobs option except that it
will enable forced parallel mode, by adding the make -j option with the computed
number of parallel jobs to the MAKEFLAGS environment variable.

This 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(1)) regardless of their support for parallel builds, which might cause build
failures.

Note: Any Makefile that is not parallel-safe should be considered to be buggy. These
should either be made parallel-safe, or marked as not being safe with the make(1)
.NOTPARALLEL target.

-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.

--rules-requires-root
Do not honor the Rules-Requires-Root field, falling back to its legacy default value
(since dpkg 1.19.1).

-nc, --no-pre-clean
Do not clean the source tree before building (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). This is the default
behavior.

-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).

--no-post-clean
Do not clean the source tree after the package has been built (since dpkg 1.19.1).
This is the default behavior.

--sanitize-env
Sanitize the build environment (since dpkg 1.20.0). This will reset or remove
environment variables, umask, and any other process attributes that might otherwise
adversely affect the build of packages. Because the official entry point to build
packages is debian/rules, packages cannot rely on these settings being in place, and
thus should work even when they are not. What to sanitize is vendor specific.

-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.

Some hooks can receive addition information through environment variables (since dpkg
1.22.0). All hooks get the hook name in the DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_NAME environment
variable (since dpkg 1.22.0).

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:

preinit
init
preclean
source
Gets DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_SOURCE_OPTIONS with the space-separated lists of
options that will passed to the dpkg-source call.

build
Gets DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_BUILD_TARGET with the name of the debian/rules build
target called, but only if called.

binary
Gets DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_BINARY_TARGET with the name of the debian/rules binary
target called, but only if called.

buildinfo
Gets DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_BUILDINFO_OPTIONS with the space-separated lists of
options that will passed to the dpkg-genbuildinfo call.

changes
Gets DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_CHANGES_OPTIONS with the space-separated lists of
options that will passed to the dpkg-genchanges call.

postclean
check
Gets DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_HOOK_CHECK_OPTIONS with the space-separated lists of
options that will passed to the check command call.

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-file=filename
Set the filename for the generated .buildinfo file (since dpkg 1.21.0).

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

--sign-backend=sign-backend
Specify an OpenPGP backend interface to use when invoking the sign-command (since dpkg
1.21.10).

The default is auto, where the best current backend available will be used. The
specific OpenPGP backends supported in order of preference are:

sop (any conforming Stateless OpenPGP implementation)

sq (from Sequoia-PGP)

gpg (from GnuPG)

-p, --sign-command=sign-command
When dpkg-buildpackage needs to execute an OpenPGP backend command to sign a source
control (.dsc) file, a .buildinfo file or a .changes file it will run sign-command
(searching the PATH if necessary) instead of the default or auto-detected backend
command (long option since dpkg 1.18.8). sign-command will get all the backend
specific arguments according to the --sign-backend selected. sign-command should not
contain spaces or any other shell metacharacters.

-k, --sign-keyid=key-id
--sign-key=key-id
Specify an OpenPGP key-ID (either a fingerprint or a user-ID) for the secret key to
use when signing packages (--sign-key since dpkg 1.18.8, --sign-keyid since dpkg
1.21.10).

--sign-keyfile=key-file
Specify an OpenPGP key-file containing the secret key to use when signing packages
(since dpkg 1.21.10).

Note: For security reasons the key-file is best kept locked with a password.

-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-file=filename
Set the filename for the generated .changes file (since dpkg 1.21.0).

--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, .buildinfo and .dsc files (since dpkg
1.17.2). Overridden by the --sign-key option.

DEB_SIGN_KEYFILE
If set, it will be used to sign the .changes, .buildinfo and .dsc files (since dpkg
1.21.10). Overridden by the --sign-keyfile option.

DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
If set, it will contain a space-separated list of options that affect the behavior of
some dpkg tools involved in package building, and might affect the package build
process if the code in debian/rules honors them.

The following are the options known and supported by dpkg tools, other options honored
by debian/rules might be defined by distribution specific policies.

parallel=N
The debian/rules in the packaging might use this option to set up the build
process to use N parallel jobs. It is overridden by the --jobs and --jobs-force
options.

nocheck
dpkg-buildpackage will ignore the DEB_CHECK_COMMAND variable. The debian/rules in
the packaging is not expected to run test suites during the build.

noopt
If debian/rules calls dpkg-buildflags to set up the build flags, those will be set
to not enable any optimizations.

nostrip
The debian/rules in the packaging should ensure that objects do not get the
debugging information stripped. If debian/rules includes the mk/buildtools.mk
make fragment the STRIP make variable will respect this option.

terse
dpkg-buildpackage will append the --no-print-directory make(1) flag to the
MAKEFLAGS environment variable. The debian/rules in the packaging should reduce
verbosity, while not being completely quiet.

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.

DPKG_NLS
If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Language Support, also
known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg 1.19.0). The accepted
values are: 0 and 1 (default).

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.

SECURITY

       Building binary or source packages should only be performed over trusted source data.

BUGS

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