flatpak-build-export(1)
NAME
flatpak-build-export - Create a repository from a build directory
SYNOPSIS
flatpak build-export [OPTION...] LOCATION DIRECTORY [BRANCH]
DESCRIPTION
Creates or updates a repository with an application build. LOCATION is the location of the repository. DIRECTORY must be a finalized build directory. If BRANCH is not specified, it is assumed to be "master". If LOCATION exists, it is assumed to be an OSTree repository, otherwise a new OSTree repository is created at this location. The repository can be inspected with the ostree tool. The contents of DIRECTORY are committed on the branch with name app/APPNAME/ARCH/BRANCH, where ARCH is the architecture of the runtime that the application is using. A commit filter is used to enforce that only the contents of the files/ and export/ subdirectories and the metadata file are included in the commit, anything else is ignored. The build-update-repo command should be used to update repository metadata whenever application builds are added to a repository.
OPTIONS
The following options are understood:
-h, --help
Show help options and exit.
-s, --subject=SUBJECT
One line subject for the commit message.
-b, --body=BODY
Full description for the commit message.
--arch=ARCH
Specify the architecture component of the branch to export. Only
host compatible architectures can be specified.
--exclude=PATTERN
Exclude files matching PATTERN from the commit. This option can be
used multiple times.
--include=PATTERN
Don't exclude files matching PATTERN from the commit, even if they
match the --export patterns. This option can be used multiple
times.
--metadata=FILENAME
Use the specified filename as metadata in the exported app instead
of the default file (called metadata). This is useful if you want
to commit multiple things from a single build tree, typically used
in combination with --files and --exclude.
--files=SUBDIR
Use the files in the specified subdirectory as the file contents,
rather than the regular files directory.
--update-appstream
Run appstream-builder and to update the appstream branch after
build.
--no-update-summary
Don't update the summary file after the new commit is added. This
means the repository will not be useful for serving over http until
build-repo-update has been run. This is useful is you want to do
multiple repo operations before finally updating the summary.
--gpg-sign=KEYID
Sign the commit with this GPG key. This option can be used multiple
times.
--gpg-homedir=PATH
GPG Homedir to use when looking for keyrings
--runtime
Export a runtime instead for an app (this uses the usr subdir as
files).
-v, --verbose
Print debug information during command processing.
--ostree-verbose
Print OSTree debug information during command processing.
--version
Print version information and exit.
EXAMPLES
$ flatpak build-export ~/repos/gnome-calculator/
~/build/gnome-calculator/ org.gnome.Calculator
Commit: 9d0044ea480297114d03aec85c3d7ae3779438f9d2cb69d717fb54237acacb8c
Metadata Total: 605
Metadata Written: 5
Content Total: 1174
Content Written: 1
Content Bytes Written: 305
SEE ALSO
ostree(1), flatpak(1), flatpak-build-init(1), flatpak-build(1), flatpak-build-finish(1), flatpak-build-sign(1), flatpak-repo-update(1)
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