pbuilder

Creates a base.tgz for the specified distribution.

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 lenny, specify the --distribution lenny --override-config options to update.

Builds the package specified by .dsc-file in the chroot environment created using the base.tgz

Cleans up the directory specified by the configuration BUILDPLACE and APTCACHE specified in /etc/pbuilderrc

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 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.

Dumps configuration information, used for debugging.

Builds a Debian package from the Debian source directory. The current directory should have the usual debian/ directory. Same as pdebuild --use-pdebuild-internal

Specifies the location of base.tgz This option will define the default distribution and apt-lines when used in pbuilder --update and pbuilder --create

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.

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.

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.

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 R 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.

Specifies the distribution used. Currently the supported values are sid etch lenny and experimental.

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, --mirror, --othermirror options are only valid when --override-config option is specified in --update target, or when pbuilder --create is being called.

Specifies the http proxy URL. Something like http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/ should do.

Specifies the location where the packages downloaded by apt should be cached. Use --aptcache if you want caching to be turned off.

Additional configuration file to read after all other configuration files have been read. \" START OF hookdir description

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. \" End of hookdir description

List of options that are passed on to dpkg-buildpackage. Overrides any value given in DEBBUILDOPTS as specified in pbuilderrc. Multiple options are delimited with spaces.

Specifies the logfile to create. The messages generated during execution will be written to the specified file, and the standard output.

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

Bind-mount the specified directories to inside the chroot. bind-mount-points is a space-delimited list of directories to bind-mount.

Add extra command-line options to debootstrap. Specify multiple options through multiple instance of this option, for example: --debootstrapopts --arch=arm --debootstrapopts --variant=buildd

Use specified debootstrap implementation as debootstrap. Known implementations are cdebootstrap and debootstrap

Save the chroot image after exiting from the chroot instead of deleting changes. Effective for login and execute session.

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.

Show a brief help message.

Removes the packages on creating the R 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

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 R --update . The packages should be specified as a space-delimited list.

Specifies that dpkg-buildpackage be called with I -m maintainer-name <email-address> instead of default value specified in the environment variable, or pbuilderrc This option is almost obsolete, use --debbuildopts instead

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

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.

Time out building after sleeping set time. Specify something like --timeout 10h in the command line. Default is no timeout.

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.

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 R --no-targz , suppresses appending R pbuilder 's process ID to the R --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.

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.

The system-wide configuration file for pbuilder.

The default settings for pbuilder, used as fallback for all values that is not specified in /etc/pbuilderrc.

The personal configuration file for pbuilder, which overrides settings set in other configuration files.

# pbuilder --create
Distribution is sid.
Building the build environment
 -> running debootstrap
/usr/sbin/debootstrap
I: Retrieving Release
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
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# pbuilder --update
W: /home/dancer/.pbuilderrc does not exist
Building the build Environment
 -> extracting base tarball [/var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz]
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# 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
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