---
name: "debomatic.conf"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "debomatic"
version: "0.8-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/debomatic.conf"
---

# debomatic.conf(5)

Configuration file for debomatic

## NAME

debomatic.conf - Configuration file for debomatic

## DEFAULT SECTION

- **builder**

  This program will be executed to create a chroot and to build packages. debomatic currently supports pbuilder (default) and cowbuilder.

- **packagedir**

  This directory is the base directory where debomatic will scan for packages to build. It must exists before launching debomatic or an exception will be raised.

- **configdir**

  This directory contains pbuilder configuration files used to pass build options to pbuilder. They must contain pbuilder specific parameters (see [pbuilderrc(5)](/pbuilderrc/5.md) for further reference) and their names must match desired target releases.

- **maxbuilds**

  Maximum number of parallel build threads to be launched. More threads will require powerful hardware.

- **inotify**

  If enabled, new threads will be launched immediately when .changes files are put in packagedir.

- **sleep**

  debomatic will build another source package when a number of seconds provided by this parameter have elapsed.

- **logfile**

  debomatic messages will be stored in this file

## GPG SECTION

**gpg** If enabled, turn GPG support on to check for signed packages before attempting to build them.

- **keyring**

  This file contains authorized GPG keys. Source packages signed with one of the keys included are allowed to build, other packages will be deleted from disk.

## MODULES

**modules** If enabled, allow modules to be plugged in at runtime.

- **modulespath**

  This directory contains modules to be plugged in at runtime.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page is Copyright 2007-2009 Luca Falavigna \<dktrkranz@debian.org\>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

## SEE ALSO

[debomatic(1)](/debomatic/1.md), [pbuilderrc(5)](/pbuilderrc/5.md)