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CVS-DEBUILD(1) — General Commands Manual

📝 NAME

cvs-debuild — build a Debian package using cvs-buildpackage and debuild

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case Command Description
Default build cvs-debuild Build the package using CVS and debuild with default options
Build with lintian checks cvs-debuild --lintian Run lintian after building the package
Specify root command cvs-debuild -r fakeroot Use fakeroot as the gain-root command
Preserve environment variables cvs-debuild --preserve-env Keep the current environment when building
Set an environment variable cvs-debuild -eVAR=value Set VAR to value for the build
Pass options to cvs-buildpackage cvs-debuild -- cvs-buildpackage-options Separate debuild options from cvs-buildpackage options

📋 SYNOPSIS

cvs-debuild  [debuild options]  [cvs-buildpackage options] [--lintian-opts lintian options]

📖 DESCRIPTION

cvs-debuild is a wrapper around cvs-buildpackage to run it with debuild as the package-building program. (This cannot simply be accomplished using the -C option of cvs-buildpackage, as it does not know how to handle all of the special debuild options.)

The program simply stashes the debuild and lintian options, and passes them to debuild when it is called by cvs-buildpackage. All of the standard debuild options may be used (as listed below), but note that the root command specified by any --rootcmd or -r command-line option will be passed as an option to cvs-buildpackage. The first non-debuild option detected will signal the start of the cvs-buildpackage options.

The selection of the root command is slightly subtle: if there are any command-line options, these will be used. If not, then if cvs-buildpackage is set up to use a default root command, that will be used. Finally, if neither of these are the case, then debuild will use its procedures to determine an appropriate command, as described in its documentation.

See the manpages for debuild(1) and cvs-buildpackage for more information about the behaviour of each.

⚙️ OPTIONS

The following are the debuild options recognised by cvs-debuild. All cvs-buildpackage and lintian options are simply passed to the appropriate program. For explanations of the meanings of these variables, see debuild(1).

🔗 SEE ALSO

👤 AUTHOR

This program was written by Julian Gilbey <jdg AT debian.org>.

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