flatpak-build(1) — Linux manual page

NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXAMPLES | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

FLATPAK BUILD(1)              flatpak build             FLATPAK BUILD(1)

NAME         top

       flatpak-build - Build in a directory

SYNOPSIS         top


       flatpak build [OPTION...] DIRECTORY [COMMAND [ARG...]]

DESCRIPTION         top

       Runs a build command in a directory.  DIRECTORY must have been
       initialized with flatpak build-init.

       The sdk that is specified in the metadata file in the directory
       is mounted at /usr and the files and var subdirectories are
       mounted at /app and /var, respectively. They are writable, and
       their contents are preserved between build commands, to allow
       accumulating build artifacts there.

OPTIONS         top

       The following options are understood:

       -h, --help
           Show help options and exit.

       -v, --verbose
           Print debug information during command processing.

       --ostree-verbose
           Print OSTree debug information during command processing.

       -r, --runtime
           Use the non-devel runtime that is specified in the
           application metadata instead of the devel runtime.

       -p, --die-with-parent
           Kill the build process and all children when the launching
           process dies.

       --bind-mount=DEST=SOURCE
           Add a custom bind mount in the build namespace. Can be
           specified multiple times.

       --build-dir=PATH
           Start the build in this directory (default is in the current
           directory).

       --share=SUBSYSTEM
           Share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides the
           Context section from the application metadata.  SUBSYSTEM
           must be one of: network, ipc. This option can be used
           multiple times.

       --unshare=SUBSYSTEM
           Don't share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides
           the Context section from the application metadata.  SUBSYSTEM
           must be one of: network, ipc. This option can be used
           multiple times.

       --socket=SOCKET
           Expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides
           to the Context section from the application metadata.  SOCKET
           must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio,
           system-bus, session-bus, ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent.
           This option can be used multiple times.

       --nosocket=SOCKET
           Don't expose a well-known socket to the application. This
           overrides to the Context section from the application
           metadata.  SOCKET must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11,
           pulseaudio, system-bus, session-bus, ssh-auth, pcsc, cups,
           gpg-agent. This option can be used multiple times.

       --device=DEVICE
           Expose a device to the application. This overrides to the
           Context section from the application metadata.  DEVICE must
           be one of: dri, input, kvm, shm, all. This option can be used
           multiple times.

       --nodevice=DEVICE
           Don't expose a device to the application. This overrides to
           the Context section from the application metadata.  DEVICE
           must be one of: dri, input, kvm, shm, all. This option can be
           used multiple times.

       --allow=FEATURE
           Allow access to a specific feature. This updates the
           [Context] group in the metadata.  FEATURE must be one of:
           devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus, per-app-dev-shm. This
           option can be used multiple times.

           See flatpak-build-finish(1) for the meaning of the various
           features.

       --disallow=FEATURE
           Disallow access to a specific feature. This updates the
           [Context] group in the metadata.  FEATURE must be one of:
           devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus, per-app-dev-shm. This
           option can be used multiple times.

       --filesystem=FILESYSTEM[:ro|:create]
           Allow the application access to a subset of the filesystem.
           This overrides to the Context section from the application
           metadata.  FILESYSTEM can be one of: home, host, host-os,
           host-etc, xdg-desktop, xdg-documents, xdg-download,
           xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share, xdg-templates,
           xdg-videos, xdg-run, xdg-config, xdg-cache, xdg-data, an
           absolute path, or a homedir-relative path like ~/dir or paths
           relative to the xdg dirs, like xdg-download/subdir. The
           optional :ro suffix indicates that the location will be
           read-only. The optional :create suffix indicates that the
           location will be read-write and created if it doesn't exist.
           This option can be used multiple times. See the "[Context]
           filesystems" list in flatpak-metadata(5) for details of the
           meanings of these filesystems.

       --nofilesystem=FILESYSTEM
           Remove access to the specified subset of the filesystem from
           the application. This overrides to the Context section from
           the application metadata.  FILESYSTEM can be one of: home,
           host, host-os, host-etc, xdg-desktop, xdg-documents,
           xdg-download, xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share,
           xdg-templates, xdg-videos, an absolute path, or a
           homedir-relative path like ~/dir. This option can be used
           multiple times.

       --with-appdir
           Expose and configure access to the per-app storage directory
           in $HOME/.var/app. This is not normally useful when building,
           but helps when testing built apps.

       --add-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE
           Add generic policy option. For example,
           "--add-policy=subsystem.key=v1 --add-policy=subsystem.key=v2"
           would map to this metadata:

               [Policy subsystem]
               key=v1;v2;

           This option can be used multiple times.

       --remove-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE
           Remove generic policy option. This option can be used
           multiple times.

       --env=VAR=VALUE
           Set an environment variable in the application. This
           overrides to the Context section from the application
           metadata. This option can be used multiple times.

       --unset-env=VAR
           Unset an environment variable in the application. This
           overrides the unset-environment entry in the [Context] group
           of the metadata, and the [Environment] group. This option can
           be used multiple times.

       --env-fd=FD
           Read environment variables from the file descriptor FD, and
           set them as if via --env. This can be used to avoid
           environment variables and their values becoming visible to
           other users.

           Each environment variable is in the form VAR=VALUE followed
           by a zero byte. This is the same format used by env -0 and
           /proc/*/environ.

       --own-name=NAME
           Allow the application to own the well-known name NAME on the
           session bus. This overrides to the Context section from the
           application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.

       --talk-name=NAME
           Allow the application to talk to the well-known name NAME on
           the session bus. This overrides to the Context section from
           the application metadata. This option can be used multiple
           times.

       --system-own-name=NAME
           Allow the application to own the well-known name NAME on the
           system bus. This overrides to the Context section from the
           application metadata. This option can be used multiple times.

       --system-talk-name=NAME
           Allow the application to talk to the well-known name NAME on
           the system bus. This overrides to the Context section from
           the application metadata. This option can be used multiple
           times.

       --persist=FILENAME
           If the application doesn't have access to the real homedir,
           make the (homedir-relative) path FILENAME a bind mount to the
           corresponding path in the per-application directory, allowing
           that location to be used for persistent data. This overrides
           to the Context section from the application metadata. This
           option can be used multiple times.

       --sdk-dir=DIR
           Normally if there is a usr directory in the build dir, this
           is used for the runtime files (this can be created by
           --writable-sdk or --type=runtime arguments to build-init). If
           you specify --sdk-dir, this directory will be used instead.
           Use this if you passed --sdk-dir to build-init.

       --readonly
           Mount the normally writable destination directories
           read-only. This can be useful if you want to run something in
           the sandbox but guarantee that it doesn't affect the build
           results. For example tests.

       --metadata=FILE
           Use the specified filename as metadata in the exported app
           instead of the default file (called metadata). This is useful
           if you build multiple things from a single build tree (such
           as both a platform and a sdk).

       --log-session-bus
           Log session bus traffic. This can be useful to see what
           access you need to allow in your D-Bus policy.

       --log-system-bus
           Log system bus traffic. This can be useful to see what access
           you need to allow in your D-Bus policy.

EXAMPLES         top

       $ flatpak build /build/my-app rpmbuild my-app.src.rpm

SEE ALSO         top

       flatpak(1), flatpak-build-init(1), flatpak-build-finish(1),
       flatpak-build-export(1)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the flatpak (a tool for building and
       distributing desktop applications on Linux) project.  Information
       about the project can be found at ⟨http://flatpak.org/⟩.  It is
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       please send a mail to man-pages@man7.org.  This page was obtained
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       ⟨https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak⟩ on 2023-12-22.  (At that
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