NAME
apt-build - Fetch sources and build packages optimized for your architecture.
SYNOPSIS
apt-build [ options ] [ update ] [ upgrade ] [ world ] [ install pkg ] [ remove pkg ] [ info pkg ]
DESCRIPTION
apt-build is an apt-get frontend to build and install architecture optimized packages.
COMMANDS
- update
-
Retrieve new lists of packages
- upgrade
-
Perform an upgrade
- world
-
Rebuild your system
- install
-
Build and install new packages
- source
-
Download and extract source in the build directory
- info
-
Info on a package which could be built
- remove
-
Remove packages
- clean-build
-
Erase built packages
- clean-sources
-
Call debian/rules clean in source directories
- build-source
-
Build source without installing them
- update-source
-
Update sources and rebuild them if they are missing in the repository
- build-repository
-
Rebuild the repository
OPTIONS
- --help
-
Shows help
- --nowrapper
-
Do not use the gcc wrapper
- --remove-builddep
-
Remove build-dependencies installed by apt-build
- --no-source
-
Don't download source
- --build-dir
-
Specify build-dir
- --build-only
-
Build package only
- --rebuild
-
Rebuild a package
- --reinstall
-
Build and install an already installed package
- --build-command <command>
-
Use this command to build package
- --patch <file>
-
Apply this patch before build (you can use this option one or several times)
- --patch-strip, -p <number>
-
Prefix to strip on patch (0 = -p0, 1 = -p1 ...)
- --yes, -y
-
Assume yes
- --purge
-
Use purge instead of remove
- --noupdate
-
Do not run 'apt-get update' before package installation
- --sources-list
-
Specify sources.list file
- --apt-get
-
Specify an alternative apt-get command
- --apt-cache
-
Specify an alternative apt-cache command
- --force-yes
-
Force yes
- --source
-
Do not download source (sources are extracted already)
- --repository-dir
-
Specify the repository directory
- --target-release
-
Distribution to fetch packages from
- --config
-
Specify an alternative configuration file
- --version, -v
-
Show version
BUGS
Many.
AUTHOR
apt-build was written by Julien Danjou <[email protected]> with many contributors.