pbuilderrc(5)
NAME
pbuilderrc - configuration files for personal package builder
DESCRIPTION
/etc/pbuilderrc contains default values used in the pbuilder program invocation. The file itself is sourced by a shell script, so it is required that the file conforms to shell script conventions. The environment variable PBUILDER_OPERATION contains the current operation mode of pbuilder, and can be used to do a conditional configuration. Possible values are build, clean, create, debuild, dumpconfig, execute, login, update.
FORMAT
APTCACHE=/var/cache/pbuilder/aptcache
Specify the location that the packages downloaded by apt should
be cached. Setting this value to "" will cause caching to be
turned off.
APTCACHEHARDLINK=yes
Specify using hard links in apt cache handling. Changing this
to no will disable hard linking and will copy the files.
It is advised to set this to no if you are using user-mode-
linux.
APTCONFDIR=/etc/apt
Configures where the apt configuration files are copied from.
By default, this value is empty, allowing the usual
configuration options to take effect. Setting this variable
overrides other options.
ARCHITECTURE=`dpkg --print-architecture`
Specifies the build architecture (as described in
dpkg-architecture(1)). It'll be the architecture used when
creating the chroot, defaults to the
system one. The supported values are the ones debootstrap
supports.
AUTOCLEANAPTCACHE=yes
Always run with --autocleanaptcache option.
AUTO_DEBSIGN=yes
When this value is set to yes, pdebuild will invoke debsign
command after building.
BASETGZ=/var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz
Specifies the default location for the archived chroot image to
be created and used. This is overridden with the option
--basetgz.
BINDMOUNTS=directories-to-bind-mount[:internal-mountpoint]
When this value is set, pbuilder will mount these directories
using bind-mount. Different directories are space separated, a
column can optionally specify a mount destination inside the
chroot.
Do not bind-mount /.
An Example:
BINDMOUNTS="/home /mnt/test /home/joe/repo:/var/repo"
BUILDDIR=/build
The directory inside the chroot where the build happens. This
will also be the HOME of the build user.
Attention! Some directories --- such as /tmp --- are not safe to use
since they can be world-writable, and external user can temper
with the build process.
BUILDPLACE=/var/cache/pbuilder/build/
The default place which the chroot is constructed. pbuilder
will use the directory $BUILDPLACE$$. which means, that it will
use the directory and the PID to determine the directory to use.
This should obtain an unique directory for concurrent runs of
pbuilder in one machine. This is not guaranteed to happen on
network shared drives, so be aware of this fact when playing
with this option on NFS shared beowulf clusters. Change it to
something like /var/cache/pbuilder/build/$HOSTNAME/ when doing
such a thing.
pbuilder clean cleans up this directory.
BUILDRESULT=/var/cache/pbuilder/result/
Specify the default directory which the build result will be
copied over to after the building.
Unlike the --buildresult command-line option the path is not
canonicalized, so you should specify a full path, not a relative
path.
EATMYDATA=no
Enable or disable the builtin eatmydata support.
For this to work the library of the same architecture as the one
inside the chroot has to be installed in the host.
CCACHEDIR=/var/cache/pbuilder/ccache
Specifies where ccache will keep its cached compiler output. If
this is specified, ccache will be installed upon pbuilder create
or pbuilder update, /usr/lib/ccache will be prepended to the
PATH, CCACHEDIR will be bind-mounted in the chroot, and
CCACHE_DIR will be set to CCACHEDIR. Note that files in
CCACHEDIR are chowned to BUILDUSERID (1234 by default).
BUILDRESULTUID=
BUILDRESULTGID=
Set the UID and GID of the files built as result. They probably
need to be set to numeric UID values, so that it works the same
inside the chroot and outside the chroot.
If sudo is used, the values specified by sudo is used. They are
SUDO_UID, and SUDO_GID. The default value is 0
BUILDSOURCEROOTCMD=fakeroot
This option is used on invocation of fakeroot for
dpkg-buildpackage in pdebuild
BUILDUSERID=1234
The uid to be used inside chroot. It should ideally not collide
with user-id outside the chroot, to avoid user inside chroot
having access to processes owned by the user id outside the
chroot.
BUILDUSERNAME=pbuilder
The user name of the user the build will run as. Specifying
this will enable the use of fakeroot inside pbuilder.
Note that this will require fakeroot to be installed within the
chroot, and fakeroot will automatically be installed. And
-rfakeroot will be added to DEBBUILDOPTS
COMPONENTS=main
Specify the default distribution components to use. This option
is space-delimited, use quotes when listing multiple components.
This option only affects when doing pbuilder create or when
--override-config is specified for pbuilder update option.
COMPRESSPROG=gzip
Program to use for compression of the base.tgz. The default is
to use gzip, and any program that can be used to compress data
using a pipe can be used.
If set to "pigz", compression and decompression is gzip
compatible but will use all available CPUs.
If set to "cat", there will be no compression at all (so
compression/decompression will be a lot faster but takes much
more space on the disk).
export http_proxy=http://your-proxy:8080/
Defines the proxy for http connection.
export DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=athlon
Uses this variable as DEBIAN_BUILDARCH. This trick can be used
for other environmental variables as well.
DEBBUILDOPTS=
The options given here will be passed on to dpkg-buildpackage.
This can be useful e.g. for binary-only builds. The command-line
option --debbuildopts will be appended to any contents specified
here but may also be used to reset the list of options.
The default value is to build source and binary package.
DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS=( '--variant=buildd' '--keyring'
'/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg' )
When this option is set to --variant=buildd pbuilder will invoke
$DEBOOTSTRAP with --variant=buildd option, which results in
debootstrap creating a minimal chroot for buildd instead of
trying to create a minimal installation chroot. --keyring is
used to specify a keyring for debootstrap.
APTKEYRINGS=()
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.
Keyrings are copied into /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d in the chroot.
APT supports it since version 0.7.25.1, firstly available in the
Debian release codenamed "squeeze" (released on 2011). For
older chroots, use a G hook to run apt-key manually.
DEBOOTSTRAP=debootstrap
Use this option to switch the implementation of debootstrap.
Known implementations of debootstrap are cdebootstrap and
debootstrap
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
Sets interactiveness of pbuilder run. Setting this value to
blank will cause the pbuilder run to be interactive. Change
this value when noninteractive upgrades do not work.
DISTRIBUTION=sid
Specify the default distribution to use. This option only
affects when doing pbuilder create or when --override-config is
specified for pbuilder update option.
EXTRAPACKAGES="ccache lintian XXX"
Specifies extra packages which the system should install in the
chroot on pbuilder create. This is a space-delimited list.
Also this is installed on pbuilder update
HOOKDIR=/usr/lib/pbuilder/hooks
Specifies the default location for the user hooks directory.
This is overridden with the option --hookdir.
If this is specified, hooks are searched for in the chroot, when
running pbuilder. If it is not defined, or is an empty string,
hooks are not executed.
For details, see pbuilder(8)
LOGLEVEL=I
Specify how much output you want from pbuilder, valid values are
E (errors only), W (errors and warnings), I (errors, warnings
and informational) and D (everything including some debug
messages).
USECOLORS=auto
Specify whether you'd like to see colored output from pbuilder.
Valid values are auto (to try to automatically detect whether
the terminal supports them), yes (to always use colors), and no
(to never use colors).
MIRRORSITE=http://www.jp.debian.org/debian
Specify the mirror site which contains the main Debian
distribution.
Note that you cannot really use file:/ kind of URL, because the
location needs to be accessible from within the chroot.
OTHERMIRROR=deb http://xxx/xxx/ ./ [| other deb lines... ]
The lines which is added to the sources.list, delimited with |
Like:
deb http://local/mirror sid 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 MIRRORSITE .
To make changes on mirror site effective on update
--override-config needs to be specified.
PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=pbuilder
Specify what pbuilder implementation to use for pdebuild. The
currently possible values are pbuilder and cowbuilder
PKGNAME_LOGFILE_EXTENSION=_$(dpkg --print-architecture).build
The extension of filename used in pkgname-logfile option.
PKGNAME_LOGFILE=yes
Always run with --pkgname-logfile option, and create a logfile
named after the package name.
PBUILDERROOTCMD=sudo -E
This option is used on invocation of pbuilder build in pdebuild
PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSCMD=/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends
This option is used by various parts of pbuilder to satisfy
(i.e. install) the build-dependencies of a package. There are
four implementations:
The "experimental" implementation,
"pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental", which might be useful to
pull packages from experimental or from repositories with a low
APT Pin Priority.
The "aptitude" implementation, which will resolve build-
dependencies and build-conflicts with aptitude which helps
dealing with complex cases but does not support unsigned APT
repositories.
The "gdebi" implementation, which will resolve build-
dependencies using gdebi tool, faster than classic
implementation, and does not require installation of a dummy
package like the aptitude implementation.
The "classic" implementation, which was the original
implementation used until 0.172.
The default is now "aptitude".
PBUILDERSATISFYDEPENDSOPT=()
Array of flags to give to pbuilder-satisfydepends.
ALLOWUNTRUSTED=no
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
$APTKEYRINGS to add the key(s).
APTGETOPT=()
Extra flags to give to apt-get.
APTITUDEGETOPT=()
Extra flags to give to aptitude.
DEBDELTA=no
Enable use of debdelta to download the needed updated in the
chroot, if debdelta is already installed.
REMOVEPACKAGES=lilo
Specify the packages to be removed on creation of base.tgz
Leaving lilo in the chroot is like keeping a timebomb...
TIMEOUT_TIME=2h
Sets timeout time. Build will be stopped with SIGTERM after the
set time.
USEDEVFS=no
Whether to use DEVFS or not. Has no effect on kFreeBSD, as
DEVFS is always used.
USEDEVPTS=yes
Specify yes when it is desired to mount /dev/pts interface. It
is usually a good idea, since there are many software which fail
miserably when there is no /dev/pts being mounted.
USESYSFS=yes
Whether to mount a sysfs (linsysfs for KFreeBSD) in /sys or not.
Has no effect on GNU/Hurd hosts, where sysfs is not available.
It is usually a good idea, since there are several software
which require /sys being populated.
USENETWORK=no
Specify yes when you do not want to disable network access
during build. Network is not available on a Debian buildd, so
you might want to keep the default. Disabling network access
currently only works on Linux.
USERUNSHM=yes
Specify yes when it is desired to mount /run/shm mount point. It
is usually a good idea in order to work with software that
expect shm to work.
USE_PDEBUILD_INTERNAL=yes
When this option is set to yes pdebuild-internal implementation
of pdebuild is used.
USEPROC=yes
Specify yes when it is desired to mount /proc interface. It is
usually a good idea, since there are many software which fail
miserably when there is no /proc being mounted.
ADDITIONAL_BUILDRESULTS=(foo "bar*" "baz\ biz")
Array of additional files to copy out of the build area.
In case a wildcard is needed (e.g. *.changes) quote it to have
the wildcard escaped and not expanded at configuration load
time, but instead expanded at run time when the additional build
artifacts are exported. Spaces in file names needs to be
escaped by using a \ or a wildcard to match the space.
CONFDIR=/etc/pbuilder/conf_files
pbuilder copies some configuration files (like /etc/hosts or
/etc/hostname) from the host system into the chroot. If the
directory specified here exists and contains one of the copied
files (without the leading /etc) that file will be copied from
here instead of the system one.
BUILD_HOME=/nonexistent
Set the what the HOME environment variable points to during the
builds. It defaults to a non-existing directory to prevent
builds from writing to HOME, which is reserved to users. If you
need a working HOME you can set it to $BUILDDIR instead.
BINNMU_MAINTAINER=
Set the value of the maintainer name and email in the changelog
during binNMU. Such value is then copied to the Changed-By
field of the .changes file. Can be set at run time with the
--bin-nmu-maintainer command line option.
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 https://pbuilder.alioth.debian.org
FILES
/etc/pbuilderrc, $HOME/.pbuilderrc
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, cowbuilder(8), pbuilder(8), pdebuild(1)
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