cowbuilder(8)
NAME
cowbuilder - a pbuilder wrapper for cowdancer.
SYNOPSIS
cowbuilder [commands] [options]
DESCRIPTION
cowbuilder Executes the specified pbuilder operation with cowdancer
COMMANDS
Most commands invoke pbuilder with the specified commands, see pbuilder
manual for details.
- --create
- Create the base.cow image. The directory for base.cow should be empty, or this command will fail.
- --update
Update the base.cow image.- --build .dsc-file
Build a package given a .dsc file- --login
Start a session within the base.cow.- --execute
Execute a command within the base.cow.- --dumpconfig
dump configuration information.
OPTIONS
Most options are the same as pbuilder, except for the following which
are handled specially
- --buildplace
- The place where COW operation takes place.
- --basepath
- has a very different meaning to basetgz option of pbuilder, since there is no tgz. This option specifies the directory in which the COW master data is stored, the default being /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow
- --configfile [configuration file to load]
- Additional configuration file to read after all other configuration files have been read.
- --no-cowdancer-update
Do not use cowdancer on cowbuilder --update. Please use this option when cowdancer is interfering with upgrade process, or cowdancer itself is being upgraded within chroot.- --debian-etch-workaround
Work around on Debian etch compatibility. cow-shell will search for all files in chroot, but will work.
CONFIGURATION FILES
cowbuilder reads the following configuration files per default.
- /usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
- Application default, not to be changed.
- /etc/pbuilderrc
- System-wide default.
- ~/.pbuilderrc
- User default
- anything specified with --configfile option
- Additional configuration at runtime.
CONFIGURATION FILE OPTIONS
The possible configuration options are as follows. Others are ignored.
DISTRIBUTION=distribution
BUILDRESULT=directory
BUILDPLACE=directory
BASEPATH=path
MIRRORSITE=http://mirror
- NO_COWDANCER_UPDATE=1
- See --no-cowdancer-update
- DEBIAN_ETCH_WORKAROUND=1
See --debian-etch-workaround
EXAMPLES
- cowbuilder --create
- Create a base.cow image.
- # cowbuilder --create --hookdir /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/workaround/ --distribution etch --debootstrap debootstrap --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.cow
bash: /root/.pbuilderrc: No such file or directory
W: /home/dancer/.pbuilderrc does not exist-> Running in no-targz mode - Distribution is etch.
Building the build environment-> running debootstrap - /usr/sbin/debootstrap
I: Retrieving Release.
. - cowbuilder --update
- Update the base.cow image.
- # cowbuilder --update
bash: /root/.pbuilderrc: No such file or directory-> Copying COW directory
-> Invoking pbuilder - W: /home/dancer/.pbuilderrc does not exist
-> Running in no-targz mode
-> copying local configuration
-> mounting /proc filesystem
-> mounting /dev/pts filesystem
-> policy-rc.d already exists - Refreshing the base.tgz
-> upgrading packages.
. - cowbuilder --build test_0.1.dsc
- Build the package specified in dsc file, with the base.cow image.
- pdebuild --pbuilder cowbuilder
- Run
cowbuilder --build
against the current directory.
The current directory should be an extracted Debian source package directory. - Edit
/etc/pbuilderrc
to have
PDEBUILD_PBUILDER=cowbuilder to make this the default behavior for
pdebuild. - cowbuilder --login --bindmounts /home/dancer
- Start a cow-shell session inside base.cow, with
/home/dancerbeing bind-mounted to within chroot. - Note that cowbuilder will not cow-protect what is inside
/home/ - # cowbuilder --login --bindmount ${HOME}
bash: /root/.pbuilderrc: No such file or directory-> Copying COW directory
-> Invoking pbuilder - W: /home/dancer/.pbuilderrc does not exist
-> Running in no-targz mode
-> copying local configuration
-> mounting /proc filesystem
-> mounting /dev/pts filesystem - -> Mounting /home/dancer
-> policy-rc.d already exists
-> entering the shell - #
- cowbuilder --create --distribution sid --basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.cow
- Create a base.cow image with the path
/var/cache/pbuilder/base-test.cow and distribution sid.
AUTHOR
Junichi Uekawa (dancer@debian.org)
SEE ALSO
- /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html, pbuilder (8), pdebuild (1)