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spbuilder

Slackware ® Package Builder

Synopsis

spbuilder create
spbuilder update
spbuilder build  <-s source | --source=source>
spbuilder clean
spbuilder login

Description

spbuilder is the front end to a suite of commands, somewhat modelled after Debuntu's Personal Builder (pbuilder) application. Unlike pbuilder's chroot environment, spbuilder uses a Linux Container (LXC) to provide the clean room environment in which to build a Slackware package.

Commands

create
generates a base container, from which spbuilder build containers are cloned.
update
updates the base container to use the latest versions of included packages.
build
clones a new spbuilder build container from the base container and builds a package specified by the --source option
clean
cleans out files generated by spbuilder commmands but not files/directories which are part of the spbuilder package itself. This command is recommended prior to removal of the spbuilder package.
login
starts up and attaches to the spbuilder base container to enable changes to be made.

Options

--source=source
 This option only makes sense for the build command. It specifies the directory pair (section/name in an SBo directory tree), in which spbuilder will expect to find an appropriate SlackBuild script for the package.
-s source is the short form of the --source=source option.

Examples

spbuilder create
Initialises spbuilder by generating the base spbuilder container.
spbuilder update
Downloads and installs latest versions of any applications that are part of the base spbuilder container.
spbuilder build -s misc/mosquitto
Build the mosquitto package found in the misc section of an SBo slackbuilds tree. The location of the slackbuilds tree is set by the SPBUILDER_SLACKBUILDS environment variable; it is set in /etc/spbuilder/spbuilderrc. The resulting package will be found in /var/cache/spbuilder/result/.
spbuilder build --source=misc/mosquitto
Equivalent to spbuilder build -s misc/mosquitto

Files

/var/cache/spbuilder - directory in which spbuilder's base tarball, build and result directories are located.

/var/cache/lxc/spbuilder - directory used by the LXC template to store downloaded packages and initial build of a new container

/usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-spbuilder-1402 - LXC template for spbuilder's base tarball.

Environment

SPBUILDER_BASE
Directory for spbuilder files and directories (defaults to /var/cache/spbuilder). It is set in /etc/spbuilder/spbuilderrc
SPBUILDER_SLACKBUILDS
Directory wher an SBo slackbuilds directory tree can be found (defaults to /scratch/PKG/SBo/slackbuilds). It is set in /etc/spbuilder/spbuilderrc

Author

Christoph Willing <chris.willing@linux.com>, 2011-2016