All long options can be specified both on the command line and in
the dpkg-buildpackage system and user configuration files. Each
line in the configuration file is either an option (exactly the
same as the command line option but without leading hyphens) or a
comment (if it starts with a '#').
--build=type
Specifies the build type from a comma-separated list of
components (since dpkg 1.18.5). Passed to
dpkg-genchanges.
The allowed values are:
source Builds the source package. Note: when using this
value standalone and if what you want is simply to
(re-)build the source package from a clean source
tree, using dpkg-source directly is always a better
option as it does not require any build
dependencies to be installed which are otherwise
needed to be able to call the clean target.
any Builds the architecture specific binary packages.
all Builds the architecture independent binary
packages.
binary Builds the architecture specific and independent
binary packages. This is an alias for any,all.
full Builds everything. This is an alias for
source,any,all, and the same as the default case
when no build option is specified.
-g Equivalent to --build=source,all (since dpkg 1.17.11).
-G Equivalent to --build=source,any (since dpkg 1.17.11).
-b Equivalent to --build=binary or --build=any,all.
-B Equivalent to --build=any.
-A Equivalent to --build=all.
-S Equivalent to --build=source.
-F Equivalent to --build=full, --build=source,binary or
--build=source,any,all (since dpkg 1.15.8).
--target=target[,...]
--target target[,...]
-T, --rules-target=target[,...]
Calls debian/rules target once per target specified, after
having setup the build environment (except for calling
dpkg-source --before-build), and stops the package build
process here (since dpkg 1.15.0, long option since dpkg
1.18.8, multi-target support since dpkg 1.18.16). If
--as-root is also given, then the command is executed as
root (see --root-command). Note that known targets that
are required to be run as root do not need this option
(i.e. the clean, binary, binary-arch and binary-indep
targets).
--as-root
Only meaningful together with --target (since dpkg
1.15.0). Requires that the target be run with root
rights.
-si
-sa
-sd
-vversion
-Cchanges-description
-m, --release-by=maintainer-address
-e, --build-by=maintainer-address
Passed unchanged to dpkg-genchanges. See its manual page.
-a, --host-arch architecture
Specify the Debian architecture we build for (long option
since dpkg 1.17.17). The architecture of the machine we
build on is determined automatically, and is also the
default for the host machine.
-t, --host-type gnu-system-type
Specify the GNU system type we build for (long option
since dpkg 1.17.17). It can be used in place of
--host-arch or as a complement to override the default GNU
system type of the host Debian architecture.
--target-arch architecture
Specify the Debian architecture the binaries built will
build for (since dpkg 1.17.17). The default value is the
host machine.
--target-type gnu-system-type
Specify the GNU system type the binaries built will build
for (since dpkg 1.17.17). It can be used in place of
--target-arch or as a complement to override the default
GNU system type of the target Debian architecture.
-P, --build-profiles=profile[,...]
Specify the profile(s) we build, as a comma-separated list
(since dpkg 1.17.2, long option since dpkg 1.18.8). The
default behavior is to build for no specific profile. Also
sets them (as a space separated list) as the
DEB_BUILD_PROFILES environment variable which allows, for
example, debian/rules files to use this information for
conditional builds.
-j, --jobs[=jobs|auto]
Number of jobs allowed to be run simultaneously, number of
jobs matching the number of online processors if auto is
specified (since dpkg 1.17.10), or unlimited number if
jobs is not specified, equivalent to the make(1) option of
the same name (since dpkg 1.14.7, long option since dpkg
1.18.8). Will add itself to the MAKEFLAGS environment
variable, which should cause all subsequent make
invocations to inherit the option, thus forcing the
parallel setting on the packaging (and possibly the
upstream build system if that uses make) regardless of
their support for parallel builds, which might cause build
failures. Also adds parallel=jobs or parallel to the
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable which allows
debian/rules files to use this information for their own
purposes. The -j value will override the parallel=jobs or
parallel option in the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment
variable. Note that the auto value will get replaced by
the actual number of currently active processors, and as
such will not get propagated to any child process. If the
number of online processors cannot be inferred then the
code will fallback to using serial execution (since dpkg
1.18.15), although this should only happen on exotic and
unsupported systems.
-J, --jobs-try[=jobs|auto]
This option (since dpkg 1.18.2, long option since dpkg
1.18.8) is equivalent to the -j option except that it does
not set the MAKEFLAGS environment variable, and as such it
is safer to use with any package including those that are
not parallel-build safe.
auto is the default behavior (since dpkg 1.18.11). Setting
the number of jobs to 1 will restore a serial behavior.
-D, --check-builddeps
Check build dependencies and conflicts; abort if
unsatisfied (long option since dpkg 1.18.8). This is the
default behavior.
-d, --no-check-builddeps
Do not check build dependencies and conflicts (long option
since dpkg 1.18.8).
--ignore-builtin-builddeps
Do not check built-in build dependencies and conflicts
(since dpkg 1.18.2). These are the distribution specific
implicit build dependencies usually required in a build
environment, the so called Build-Essential package set.
--rules-requires-root
Do not honor the Rules-Requires-Root field, falling back
to its legacy default value (since dpkg 1.19.1).
-nc, --no-pre-clean
Do not clean the source tree before building (long option
since dpkg 1.18.8). Implies -b if nothing else has been
selected among -F, -g, -G, -B, -A or -S. Implies -d with
-S (since dpkg 1.18.0).
--pre-clean
Clean the source tree before building (since dpkg 1.18.8).
This is the default behavior.
-tc, --post-clean
Clean the source tree (using gain-root-command
debian/rules clean) after the package has been built (long
option since dpkg 1.18.8).
--no-post-clean
Do not clean the source tree after the package has been
built (since dpkg 1.19.1). This is the default behavior.
-r, --root-command=gain-root-command
When dpkg-buildpackage needs to execute part of the build
process as root, it prefixes the command it executes with
gain-root-command if one has been specified (long option
since dpkg 1.18.8). Otherwise, if none has been
specified, fakeroot will be used by default, if the
command is present. gain-root-command should start with
the name of a program on the PATH and will get as
arguments the name of the real command to run and the
arguments it should take. gain-root-command can include
parameters (they must be space-separated) but no shell
metacharacters. gain-root-command might typically be
fakeroot, sudo, super or really. su is not suitable,
since it can only invoke the user's shell with -c instead
of passing arguments individually to the command to be
run.
-R, --rules-file=rules-file
Building a Debian package usually involves invoking
debian/rules as a command with several standard parameters
(since dpkg 1.14.17, long option since dpkg 1.18.8). With
this option it's possible to use another program
invocation to build the package (it can include space
separated parameters). Alternatively it can be used to
execute the standard rules file with another make program
(for example by using /usr/local/bin/make -f debian/rules
as rules-file).
--check-command=check-command
Command used to check the .changes file itself and any
artifact built referenced in the file (since dpkg 1.17.6).
The command should take the .changes pathname as an
argument. This command will usually be lintian.
--check-option=opt
Pass option opt to the check-command specified with
DEB_CHECK_COMMAND or --check-command (since dpkg 1.17.6).
Can be used multiple times.
--hook-hook-name=hook-command
Set the specified shell code hook-command as the hook
hook-name, which will run at the times specified in the
run steps (since dpkg 1.17.6). The hooks will always be
executed even if the following action is not performed
(except for the binary hook). All the hooks will run in
the unpacked source directory.
Note: Hooks can affect the build process, and cause build
failures if their commands fail, so watch out for
unintended consequences.
The current hook-name supported are:
init preclean source build binary buildinfo changes
postclean check sign done
The hook-command supports the following substitution
format string, which will get applied to it before
execution:
%% A single % character.
%a A boolean value (0 or 1), representing whether the
following action is being performed.
%p The source package name.
%v The source package version.
%s The source package version (without the epoch).
%u The upstream version.
--buildinfo-option=opt
Pass option opt to dpkg-genbuildinfo (since dpkg 1.18.11).
Can be used multiple times.
-p, --sign-command=sign-command
When dpkg-buildpackage needs to execute GPG to sign a
source control (.dsc) file or a .changes file it will run
sign-command (searching the PATH if necessary) instead of
gpg2 or gpg (long option since dpkg 1.18.8). sign-command
will get all the arguments that gpg2 or gpg would have
gotten. sign-command should not contain spaces or any
other shell metacharacters.
-k, --sign-key=key-id
Specify a key-ID to use when signing packages (long option
since dpkg 1.18.8).
-us, --unsigned-source
Do not sign the source package (long option since dpkg
1.18.8).
-ui, --unsigned-buildinfo
Do not sign the .buildinfo file (since dpkg 1.18.19).
-uc, --unsigned-changes
Do not sign the .buildinfo and .changes files (long option
since dpkg 1.18.8).
--no-sign
Do not sign any file, this includes the source package,
the .buildinfo file and the .changes file (since dpkg
1.18.20).
--force-sign
Force the signing of the resulting files (since dpkg
1.17.0), regardless of -us, --unsigned-source, -ui,
--unsigned-buildinfo, -uc, --unsigned-changes or other
internal heuristics.
-sn
-ss
-sA
-sk
-su
-sr
-sK
-sU
-sR
-i, --diff-ignore[=regex]
-I, --tar-ignore[=pattern]
-z, --compression-level=level
-Z, --compression=compressor
Passed unchanged to dpkg-source. See its manual page.
--source-option=opt
Pass option opt to dpkg-source (since dpkg 1.15.6). Can
be used multiple times.
--changes-option=opt
Pass option opt to dpkg-genchanges (since dpkg 1.15.6).
Can be used multiple times.
--admindir=dir
--admindir dir
Change the location of the dpkg database (since dpkg
1.14.0). The default location is /usr/local/var/lib/dpkg.
-?, --help
Show the usage message and exit.
--version
Show the version and exit.
