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(Wrapper around cowbuilder/qemubuilder for gbp buildpackage)
DIST=distribution ARCH=architecture [BUILDER=(pbuilder|qemubuilder)] \ git-pbuilder debbuild-options
DIST=distribution ARCH=architecture [BUILDER=(pbuilder|qemubuilder)] \ git-pbuilder (update | create | login) cowbuilder-options
git-pbuilder is a wrapper around pdebuild intended for use by
gbp buildpackage. It configures pdebuild to use cowbuilder by
default, passes appropriate options to debbuild, and sets the base path
for cowbuilder based on the environment variable DIST and, if set, the
environment variable ARCH. qemubuilder can be selected instead by
setting the environment variable BUILDER to qemubuilder, and
pbuilder can be selected by setting BUILDER to pbuilder.
By default, git-pbuilder assumes the target distribution is sid, the
same architecture as the cowbuilder default, and uses
/var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid.cow if it exists. If it doesn't,
/var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow is tried. If DIST is set, its value is
the target distribution and /var/cache/pbuilder/base-dist.cow is
used instead. If DIST is etch or ebo, --debian-etch-workaround
is also passed to cowbuilder. If ARCH is set, its value is the target
architecture and /var/cache/pbuilder/base-dist-arch.cow is used,
with dist being set to sid if DIST was not set.
If qemubuilder is used as the builder, no base directory is used. Instead, qemubuilder is invoked with the --config option pointing to the file /var/cache/pbuilder/qemubuilder-arch-dist.conf
If pbuilder is used as the builder, git-pbuilder instead looks for /var/cache/pbuilder/base-sid.tgz by default and /var/cache/pbuilder/base.tgz if it doesn't exist. If DIST or ARCH are set, they are used to form the expected name of the tgz file in the same way as they're used to form the expected base directory for cowbuilder. Similar to cowbuilder, --debian-etch-workaround is passed to pbuilder if from the DIST setting it looks like the target distribution is etch.
If git-pbuilder is invoked via a name that starts with git-*-, the
part between the hyphens is taken to be the default name of the builder to
use. However, pbuilder is mapped to cowbuilder for backward
compatibility; if you want to use pbuilder, you have to explicitly set
BUILDER. The part after the last hyphen is taken to be the default
distribution (if it contains no additional hyphen) or the default
distribution followed by the default architecture (if it contains a
hyphen). One can therefore create symlinks like git-pbuilder-squeeze
pointing to git-pbuilder and use that name when wanting to use a
distribution of squeeze, or git-qemubuilder-sid-armel to use
qemubuilder to build for the armel architecture and the sid
distribution. Explicit settings of BUILDER, DIST, or ARCH always override
any guesses from the command name. (But note that gbp buildpackage
does not pass on environment variables when run with --git-pbuilder;
see below.)
Any arguments are passed as-is to dpkg-buildpackage via the --debbuildopts option to pdebuild. To pass arguments to the builder instead, put them in the environment variable GIT_PBUILDER_OPTIONS.
To disable all attempts to discover the base path, tarball, or
configuration file and set up the pbuilder options and instead rely on the
settings in .pbuilderrc, set GIT_PBUILDER_AUTOCONF to no.
Normally, one does not run this script directly. Instead, it's used as the builder script for gbp buildpackage via the --git-pbuilder command-line option. When run this way, you should use the --git-dist, --git-arch, --git-qemubuilder, --git-pbuilder-autoconf, and --git-pbuilder-options flags instead of setting the DIST, ARCH, BUILDER, GIT_PBUILDER_AUTOCONF, and GIT_PBUILDER_OPTIONS environment variables. See gbp-buildpackage(1) for more information.
Alternately, git-pbuilder may be called with an argument of update,
create, or login. In this case, it calls cowbuilder (or the
configured builder as described above) using sudo and passes the
corresponding command to the builder, using the same logic as above to
determine the base directory and distribution. If the distribution (set
in DIST) ends in -backports, one of the following will be added as an
--othermirror parameter to the builder:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian $DIST main
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports $DIST main
The first will be used for most distributions, and the second for
squeeze-backports. If the distribution ends in -lts, the following will
be added as an --othermirror parameter to the builder:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian $DIST main
to support building for Long Term Support releases.
Any additional arguments to git-pbuilder are passed along to the builder. Due to how sudo works, invoking the builder with an action will not read the user's .pbuilderrc by default, so in this case git-pbuilder will add an explicit --configfile option pointing to the user's .pbuilderrc if it exists.
If you use git-pbuilder with one of these arguments, you must have
the sudo package installed, and you must configure sudo to let the
current user run the appropriate builder command.
Sets the target architecture. For a cowbuilder builder, this sets both the base path and is passed as the --architecture option. With qemubuilder, this controls the path to the configuration file. With pbuilder, this sets the tgz path and is passed as --architecture.
Sets the builder to use. The only supported settings are cowbuilder
(the default), qemubuilder, and pbuilder.
Set this environment variable to change the default location for the cowbuilder base directories (/var/cache/pbuilder).
Sets the target distribution. This is used primarily to determine the base path for cowbuilder or pbuilder or the configuration file path for qemubuilder, but it's also used to determine whether to pass --debian-etch-workaround to cowbuilder or pbuilder.
If set to no, disable the logic that constructs the base path, tarball,
or configuration file and all other logic to determine the options to pass
to the builder. Instead, just run the configured builder and assume its
configuration is handled elsewhere (such as in .pbuilderrc). This also
suppresses setting --buildresult, so the user will need to ensure that
the configuration still puts packages where gbp buildpackage expects
them.
Set this environment variable to get additional debugging output like how cowbuilder is invoked.
Add additional options for the builder. These options are passed as-is to cowbuilder, qemubuilder, or pbuilder via pdebuild. The contents of this variable will undergo shell expansion, so any arguments containing shell metacharacters or whitespace need to be quoted in the value of the environment variable.
Where to put the result of the build. The default is .. (the parent
directory). This setting is ignored if GIT_PBUILDER_AUTOCONF is set to
no.
Add additional options for pdebuild itself (such as --use-pdebuild-internal). The contents of this variable will undergo shell expansion, so any arguments containing shell metacharacters or whitespace need to be quoted in the value of the environment variable.
Set this environment variable to change the default location for the
pbuilder tgz files (/var/cache/pbuilder) when BUILDER is set to
pbuilder.
The default cowbuilder --basepath directories, searched for in that
order, if neither DIST nor ARCH is set.
The cowbuilder --basepath directory used if ARCH is set and DIST is not
set.
The cowbuilder --basepath directory used if DIST is set and ARCH is
not.
The cowbuilder --basepath directory used if DIST and ARCH are both set.
Similar to the above, the pbuilder --basetgz path used for various
settings of DIST and ARCH if BUILDER is set to pbuilder.
The qemubuilder --config file used. $ARCH defaults to armel and
$DIST defaults to sid if not set.
cowbuilder(8), dpkg-buildpackage(1), gbp-buildpackage(1), pbuilder(8), pdebuild(1), qemubuilder(8), sudo(8)
The latest version of this script is available from <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/scripts/>.
Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>
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