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NAME

       pbuilder - personal package builder

SYNOPSIS

       pbuilder --create [options]

       pbuilder --update [options]

       pbuilder --build [options] .dsc-file

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

       pbuilder --clean

       pbuilder --login [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
              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
              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
              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
              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 architecture used.  The supported values are the ones debootstrap supports.  i386 or
              amd64 .

       --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.

       --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.

       --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.  Currently scripts are executed at only one point, on exit from the chrooted
              environment, just before either a create or a build regenerated  the  base.tgz  file.  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.

       --debbuildopts [options]

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

       --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.

       --binary-arch

              Specify  to  build  architecture  specific targets instead of all targets.  Setting --debbuildopts
              after this option will re-set some parts of the effect.

              Use this option rather than using --debbuildopts -B

       --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.

       --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.

       --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_EXTENTION 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 and decompression of the base.tgz.  The default is to use gzip, and
              any program that can be used for the --use-compress-program option of tar can be given.

              If  set  to  "pigz",  compression  and decompression is gzip compatible but will use all available
              CPUs.

       --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 /tmp/buildd 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 http://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, pdebuild(1), pbuilderrc(5)