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)