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.TH "pbuilder" 1 "2001 Aug 25" "Debian" "pbuilder"
.SH NAME
pbuilder \- personal package builder
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BI "pbuilder create [" "options" "]"
.PP
.BI "pbuilder update [" "options" "]"
.PP
.BI "pbuilder build [" "options" "] " ".dsc-file"
.PP
.BI "pbuilder clean"
.PP
.BI "pbuilder login"
.SH DESCRIPTION
Front end program to the
.B "pbuilder"
suite of programs, used for creating and maintaining chroot environment
and building Debian package in the chroot environment.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B "create"
Creates a
.B "base.tgz"
for the specified distribution.
.TP
.B "update"
Updates the
.B "base.tgz"
for the specified distribution.
Also, by specifying the
.B "--distribution"
option, it is possible to switch the distribution.
Specify a dummy distribution value
even for custom apt config files.
.TP
.B "build"
Builds the package specified by
.I ".dsc-file"
in the chroot environment created using the
.B "base.tgz"
.TP
.B "clean"
Cleans up the directory specified by the configuration
.B "BUILDPLACE"
and
.B "APTCACHE"
specified in
.I "/etc/pbuilderrc"
.TP
.B "login"
Logs into the chroot, and cleaned up afterwards.
Any changes you make will not be kept.
.TP
.B "debuild"
Builds a Debian package from the Debian source directory.
There needs to be a
.I "debian/"
directory in the current directory.
This command is a convenience script,
and it does not accept most command-line options.
This may change in the future.
.TP
.BI "--basetgz [" "basetgz-location" "]"
Specifies the location of
.B "base.tgz"
This option will define the default distribution and
apt-lines when used in
.B "pbuilder update"
and
.B "pbuilder create"
.TP
.BI "--buildplace [" "location of build" "]"
Specifies the location where building and
.B "base.tgz"
updating and creation takes place. This is
a temporary work directory.
.TP
.BI "--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
.B ".."
but somewhere else entirely. This is to avoid
overwriting already existing deb files with
the newly generated ones.
.TP
.BI "--mirror [" "mirror location" "]"
Specifies the url of Debian mirror to be
specified in
.B "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:
.I "http://http.us.debian.org/debian"
which should point to your favorite 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
.B "file:/somewhere/"
will most probably fail.
.TP
.BI "--nonusmirror [" "mirror location" "]"
The non-US mirror, specified like the
.B "--mirror"
option
.TP
.BI "--othermirror [" "apt deb line " "|" " other deb lines... " "]"
The lines which is added to the sources.list, delimited with
.B "|"
Like
.B "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
.B sources.list
inside the chroot.
.TP
.BI "--http-proxy [" "proxy" "]"
Specifies the http proxy url. Something like
.B "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/"
should do.
.TP
.BI "--distribution [" "distribution" "]"
Specifies the distribution used. Currently the supported values are
.B "sid"
and
.B "woody".
.TP
.BI "--removepackages [" "packages to remove" "]"
Removes the packages on creating the
.BI "base.tgz" "."
Use this option to remove potentially dangerous or undesirable
packages, like
.B "lilo"
which nobody will need to have inside a chroot.
Packages should be specified in a space-delimited manner,
surrounded in double quotations, like
.B """lilo gcc mawk"""
.TP
.BI "--extrapackages [" "packages to add" "]"
Adds packages specified as an addition to the default,
which is
.B build-essential
by default.
This is used in
.B "build"
and
.B "create"
and
.B "update"
The packages should be specified as a space-delimited list.
.TP
.BI "--configfile [" "configuration file to load" "]"
Loads the configuration file.
.TP
.BI "--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
.B "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,
.B "pbuilder update"
does not invoke the hooks if
.B "--hookdir"
is empty, so if you want to avoid running hooks,
run pbuilder with
.B "--hookdir """""
If there is a distribution hook, for example, if
there was a file
.B "sid"
inside the hook directory, and the script was creating the
chroot for
.B "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.
.TP
.BI "--debemail [" "email-address" "]"
Specifies that dpkg-buildpackage be called with
.B "-m$DEBEMAIL"
instead of default value specified in the environmental
variable, or pbuilderrc
.TP
.BI "--debbuildopts [" "options" "]"
List of options that are passed on to dpkg-buildpackage. Overrides
any value given in DEBBUILDOPTS as specified in the environment or in
pbuilderrc.
.TP
.BI "--logfile [" "file to log" "]"
Specifies the logfile to create.
The messages generated during execution will be written to the file,
instead of messages coming to the
standard output.
.TP
.BI "--aptconfdir [" "APT configuration directory to use" "]"
Uses the apt configuration file found in the specified directory
as the chroot configuration.
.B "/etc/apt"
is one example, so that the same configuration can be used inside the
chroot.
This option overrides other options, and may cause some inconsistency
problems.
.SH "FILES"
.TP
.I "/etc/pbuilderrc"
The system-wide configuration file for pbuilder.
.TP
.I "/usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc"
The default settings for pbuilder, used as fallback.
.TP
.I "${HOME}/.pbuilderrc"
The personal configuration file for pbuilder.
.SH BUGS
This program is starting to have too many options already.
.SH AUTHOR
Initial coding, and main maintenance is done by
Junichi Uekawa <dancer@debian.org>.
User hooks code added by Dale Amon <amon@vnl.com>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.RI "pdebuild (" 1 "), "
.RI "pbuilderrc (" 5 ") "
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