man debian-builder (Commandes) - Rebuild Debian packages from source

NAME

debian-builder - Rebuild Debian packages from source

SYNOPSIS

debian-builder [options]package

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the debian-builder program.

Usage

Usage is designed to be very simple, invoke debian-builder with the name of a package to build, and it should "just work".

OPTIONS

The following command line options are supported:

--verbose <x>
Output diagnostic information during the build.
--debuild foo
Pass the named arguments to the debuild process when building, these are not changed in any way. Note that if you use this option you will need to supply arguments to prevent the signing, as these defaults will be erased.
--debug-dump-packages
Dump the list of packages installed upon the current system.
--debug-dump-build-deps
Show the build dependencies for the given package.
--debug-dump-source-package
Show the source package which is required to build the given package.
--debug-dependency-handling
Show which packages are required to build the given package, and report upon those already installed.
--sign
Sign the package and the changes file after the build has finished. This is not the default.
--version
Show the current version number of the debian-builder script.

REQUIREMENTS

The program does require some setup before it may be used, you should have some deb-src lines in your sources.list file, so that downloading the source of packages works.

You should also have a minimal build environment, so that building a package is as simple as running "debuild".