NAME

       dose-builddebcheck - Check if a package can be built on a Debian system

SYNOPSIS

       dose-builddebcheck [options] binary-repositories source-repository

DESCRIPTION

       dose-builddebcheck determines, for a set of debian source package control stanzas, called
       the source repository, whether a build environment for the packages of the source
       repository can be installed by using packages from the binary repository. For this, only
       package meta-information is taken into account: build-dependencies and build-conflicts in
       the source package, and inter-package relationsships expressed in the binary repository.
       The constraint solving algorithm is complete, that is it finds a solution whenever there
       exists one, even for multiple disjunctive dependencies and deep package conflicts.  This
       problem is computationally infeasible in theory (that is, NP-complete), but can be solved
       very efficiently for package repositories that actually occur in practice. Installability
       of binary packages is analyzed according to their Depends, Conflicts, and Provides fields
       with their meaning as of Debian policy version 3.9.0. Pre-depends are treated like
       Depends, and Breaks are treated like Conflicts.

Input Format

       The binary-repositories argument is a list of filenames containing stanzas in the format
       of deb-control(5), separated by one blank line. For instance, the Packages files as found
       on a Debian mirror server, or in the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ of a Debian system, are
       suitable. The source-repository argument is the name of a file containing debian source
       control stanzas, separated by one blank line. For instance, the Sources files as found on
       a Debian mirror server, or in the directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ of a Debian system, are
       suitable.

       Multi-arch annotations are correctly considered by dose-builddebcheck. Packages whose's
       architecture is neither the native architecture nor in the list of foreign architectures
       (see below) are ignored. Here, native and foreign refers at the same time to the
       architecture on which the compilation will be run, and to the target architecture of the
       compilation. Cross-compilation is supported by specifying the host architecture.

OPTIONS

       --deb-native-arch=name
               Specify the native architecture. The default behavior is to deduce the native
               architecture from the first package stanza in the input that has an architecture
               different from all.

       --deb-foreign-archs=name [,name] ...
               Specify a comma-separated list of foreign architectures. The default is an empty
               list of foreign architectures.

       --deb-host-arch=name...
               Specify the host architecture.

       -f --failures
               Only show broken packages that fail the installability check.

       -v --successes
               Only show packages that do not fail the installability check.

       -e --explain
               Explain the results in more detail.

       -v      Enable info / warnings / debug messages. This option may be repeated up to three
               times in order to increase verbosity.

       -h, --help
               Display this list of options.

EXAMPLE

       Compute the list of source packages in Sources for which it is not possible to install a
       build environment on i386, assuming that the binary packages described in file Packages
       are available:

        dose-builddebcheck -v -f -e --arch amd64 \
        /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages\
        /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources

       Compute the list of source packages for armel in Sources for which it is not possible to
       install a mix build environment on amd64 plus armel, assuming that the binary packages
       described in file Packages are available:

        deb-builddebcheck --failures --successes --deb-native-arch=amd64 \
        --deb-foreign-archs=armel,linux-any --deb-host-arch=armel \
        DebianPackages/Sid-amd64-armel-Packages-050812.bz2
        DebianPackages/Sid-Sources-single-version-050812.bz2

AUTHOR

       The current version has been rewritten on the basis of the dose3 library by Pietro Abate;
       it replaces an earlier version that was  simply a wrapper for edos-distcheck.

SEE ALSO

       deb-control(5), dose-distcheck(1)

       <http://www.edos-project.org> is the home page of the EDOS project.
       <http://www.mancoosi.org> is the home page of the Mancoosi project.

                                            2015-01-07                              BUILDCHECK(1)