NAME

       debrebuild - use a buildinfo file and snapshot.d.o to recreate binary packages

SYNOPSIS

       debrebuild [options] <buildinfo>

DESCRIPTION

              debrebuild <--help|-h>

       Given  a  buildinfo  file  from  a  Debian package, generate instructions for attempting to reproduce the
       binary packages built from the associated source and build information.

OPTIONS

       --help, -h
              Show this help and exit

       --[no-]use-tor-proxy
              Whether to  fetch  resources  via  tor  (socks://127.0.0.1:9050)  Assumes  "apt-transport-tor"  is
              installed both in host + chroot

       --[no-]respect-build-path
              Whether to setup the build to use the Build-Path from the provided .buildinfo file.

       --buildresults
              Directory for the build artifacts (default: ./)

       --builder=BUILDER
              Which  building  software  should  be used. Possible values are none, sbuild, mmdebstrap, dpkg and
              sbuild+unshare. The default is none. See section BUILDER for details.

       Note: debrebuild can parse buildinfo files with and without a GPG signature.  However, the signature  (if
       present)  is  discarded as debrebuild does not support verifying it.  If the authenticity or integrity of
       the buildinfo files are important to you, checking these need to be done before invoking debrebuild,  for
       example by using dscverify.

       EXAMPLES

              $ debrebuild --buildresults=./artifacts --builder=mmdebstrap hello_2.10-2_amd64.buildinfo

       BUILDERS

       debrebuild  can  use  different  backends  to perform the actual package rebuild.  The desired backend is
       chosen using the --builder option. The default is "none".

       none   Dry-run mode. No build is performed.

       sbuild Use sbuild to build the package. This requires sbuild to be setup with schroot chroots  of  Debian
              stable distributions.

       mmdebstrap
              Use mmdebstrap to build the package. This requires no setup and no superuser privileges.

       dpkg   Directly  run  apt-get  and  dpkg-buildpackage on the current system without chroot. This requires
              root privileges.

       sbuild+unshare
              Use sbuild with the unshare backend. This will create the chroot and  perform  the  build  without
              superuser privileges and without any setup.

       UNSHARE

       Before kernel 5.10.1 or before Debian 11 (Bullseye), unprivileged user namespaces were disabled in Debian
       for security reasons. Refer to Debian bug #898446 for details. To enable user namespaces, run:

              $ sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1

       The  sbuild+unshare  builder  requires  and the mmdebstrap builder benefits from having unprivileged user
       namespaces activated. On Ubuntu they are enabled by default.

       LIMITATIONS

       Currently, the code assumes that all packages were at some point part of Debian unstable main. This fails
       for packages from Debian ports, packages from experimental as well  as  for  locally  built  packages  or
       packages  from  third  party  repositories.  Enabling  support  for  Debian  ports  and  experimental  is
       conceptually possible and only needs somebody implementing it.

debrebuild 2.23.7                                 December 2023                                    DEBREBUILD(1)