sbuild Command Examples

Build a Debian binary package in a clean chroot environment. More information: https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild.

• Build the package in the current directory:

sbuild

• Build the given package:

sbuild {{package}}

• Build for a certain distribution:

sbuild --dist {{distribution}}

• Build using custom dependencies (if a directory is passed, all files ending with .deb are used):

sbuild --extra-package {{path/to/file_or_directory}}

• Run a shell in case of build failure to further investigate:

sbuild --build-failed-commands=%SBUILD_SHELL

• Cross build for a certain architecture:

sbuild --host {{architecture}}

• Build for the given native architecture:

sbuild --arch {{architecture}}