pb.yml.pod man page

NAME

Documentation for pb configuration files

DESCRIPTION

pb helps you build various packages directly from your project sources. In order to work correctly, it relies on a certain number of configuration files. Most of these configuration parameters can be setup in all the configuration files, however, they generally make more sense in a specific one, which is indicated. There are mainly 4 configuration files, the one in the home directory of the user (used first), the one from the project (use in second), the one in the VM/VE hosting directory, and the one provided by the tool in /etc/pb or /usr/local/etc/pb (lastly).

SYNOPSIS

Those files have the same format, which is YAML starting after v0.14 of pb.

keyword: key: value1[,value2,...]

(Before it was using: keyword key = value1[,value2,...])

The key could be also default, in which case it will be used as a default value if no more precise content is given for the key.

Each value is detailed below giving the nature of its use (Mandatory or Optional - only used for certain feature), the value of the key (could be the project, an OS name, default, ...), the value of the parameter field and its format, the default configuration file in which it should be defined (home $HOME/.pbrc.yml, conf /etc/pb/pb.yml or /usr/local/etc/pb/pb.yml, VE vepath/.pbrc.yml, VM vmpath/.pbrc.yml, or project project.yml) and an example of use.

OPTIONS

addbuildrepo
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: comma separated list of URLs that point to repository files, or packages to install at project build time. The values may not include substitutions.
Conffile: project
Example: addbuildrepo:
           centos-5-x86_64: file:///prj/extras.repo,http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.8/extras/x86_64/RPMS/chrpath-0.13-3.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm
addinstallrepo
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: comma separated list of URLs that point to repository files, or packages to install at project installation time. The values may not include substitutions.
Conffile: project
Example: addinstallrepo:
           centos-7-x86_64: ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/centos/7/x86_64/pb.repo
addtestrepo
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: comma separated list of URLs that point to repository files, or packages to install at project test time. The values may not include substitutions.
Conffile: project
Example: addtestrepo:
           centos-7-x86_64: ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/centos/7/x86_64/pb.repo
cachedir
Nature: Optional
Key: pb project: rpmbootstrap|pbmkbm|pb
Value: Directory to cache temporary content for the relevant pb project.
Conffile: pb
Example: cachedir:
           rpbootstrap: /var/cache/rpmbootstrap
checkexclude
Nature: Optional
Key: package (as provided in defpkgdir or extpkgdir)
Value: comma separated list of OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch) that are excluded from the checkssh command (no build made for them). The OS name is generaly used here.
Conffile: project
Example: checkexclude:
           pkg1: centos,lsb,solaris
cpandir
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: CPAN Pause directory to upload new modules
Conffile: pb
Example: cpandir:
           default: incoming
cpanpasswd
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: CPAN Pause user's password
Conffile: home
Example: cpanpasswd:
           default: mycomplicatedpwd
cpanpause
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: CPAN Pause site to upload new modules
Conffile: pb
Example: cpanpause:
           default: pause.perl.org
cpansubdir
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: CPAN Pause subdirectory in the user's area to upload into
Conffile: pb
Example: cpansubdir:
           default: mydir
cpanurl
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: CPAN Pause URL to activate the upload mecanism
Conffile: pb
Example: cpanurl:
           default: http://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery
cpanuser
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: CPAN Pause user
Conffile: home
Example: cpanuser:
           default: XXX
defpkgdir
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: comma separated list of packages built by default in this project. When not using any package name as a parameter to pb commands, this list will be used.
Conffile: project
Example: defpkgdir:
           mondorescue: mondo,mindi NB: a default value is not really meaningful.
delivery
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: directory where to deliver packages once built for ftp/web access.
Conffile: project
Example: delivery:
           mondorescue: prod
dockeropt
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: List of the options to call docker with
Conffile: project
Example: dockeropt:
           default: --bip=172.16.42.1/16
dockerregistry
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: name of the docker registry to interact with if any
Conffile: project
Example: dockerregistry:
           mondorescue: localhost:5900/mondorescue
dockerrepository
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: name of the docker repository to interact with if any. It is mandatory if no dockerregistry is defined.
Conffile: project
Example: dockerrepository:
           mondorescue: localhost:5000/mondorescue
extpkgdir
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: comma separated list of packages built in addition in this project. When using the all package name as a parameter to pb commands, this list will be used, in addition to the defpkgdir list.
Conffile: project
Example: extpkgdir:
           mondorescue: mondo-doc,mindi-mindibusybox
filteredfiles
Nature: Optional
Key: package (as provided in defpkgdir or extpkgdir)
Value: comma separated list of files that will be filtered using the macro system from pb, during the creation of the compressed source tar files for this package. Their path is relative to the directory containing the package.
Conffile: project
Example: filteredfiles:
           mindi: rootfs/sbin/init,mindi,install.sh,doc/mindi.8
ftp_proxy
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: string indicating the proxy to use
Conffile: pb
Example: ftp_proxy:
           default: http://example.com:3128/
http_proxy
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: string indicating the proxy to use
Conffile: pb
Example: http_proxy:
           default: http://example.com:3128/
https_proxy
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: string indicating the proxy to use
Conffile: pb
Example: https_proxy:
           default: http://example.com:3128/
logcmd
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: internal (the application then handles the logging of what it finds useful) or the name of an application to launch to log context (e.g. sos, cfg2html, ...).
Conffile: pb
Example: logcmd:
           mageia: sos
logcmds
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: In case the B<logcmd> command is internal, a comma separated list of the commands whose trace execution is to be captured in order to log context.
Conffile: pb
Example: logcmds:
           mageia: mount,lsmod,esxcfg-module -l,df -T
logfiles
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: In case the B<logcmd> command is internal, a comma separated list of the files to capture in order to log context.
Conffile: pb
Example: logfiles:
           mageia: /etc/raidtab,/proc/cmdline,/proc/swaps
logopt
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: In case the B<logcmd> command is not internal, the options of the B<logcmd> application to launch to log context
Conffile: pb
Example: logopt:
           mageia: --all
mkbmbootcmds
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: comma separated list of commands to be copied from the original OS to the target boot media tree (works recursively for directory creation on the target). Their actual path is deduced from the PATH variable.
Conffile: pb
Example: mkbmbootcmds:
           linux: perl,awk,gawk,dd,grep,uname
mkbmbootdirs
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: comma separated list of directories to be copied from the original OS to the target boot media tree (works recursively on the target).
Conffile: pb
Example: mkbmbootdirs:
           linux: /etc/ssh,/etc/udev,/etc/mdadm
mkbmbootfiles
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: comma separated list of files to be copied from the original OS to the target boot media tree (works recursively for directory creation on the target).
Conffile: pb
Example: mkbmbootfiles:
           linux: /etc/mdadm.conf,/etc/raidtab,/etc/modprobe.conf
mkbmkerneldir
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: path of the directory containing your kernel.
Conffile: pb
Example: mkbmkerneldir:
           linux: /boot
mkbmkernelfile
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: full path of the your kernel.
Conffile: pb
Example: mkbmkernelfile:
           linux: /boot/vmlinuz-specific
mkbmkernelnamere
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: Perl Regular Expression allowing to find OS kernel names in the B<kerneldir> directory.
Conffile: pb
Example: mkbmkerneldir:
           linux: ^linu|^vmlinu|^xen
mkbmtargetdirs
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: comma separated list of empty directory paths to be created on the target boot media.
Conffile: pb
Example: mkbmtargetdirs:
           linux: /tmp,/dev
namingtype
Nature: Optional
Key: package (as provided in defpkgdir or extpkgdir)
Value: perl, if packages are CPAN perl modules that need to be named respecting the distribution perl convention (perl-Name for rpm, libname-perl for deb)
Conffile: project
Example: namingtype:
           ProjectBuilder: perl
osambiguous
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). In that case, should be an OS name.
Value: comma separated list of distributions which use the same file name in /etc for different distributions (ex: /etc/redhat-release for redhat, rhel, mandriva,...). Cf: B<osrelambfile>
Conffile: pb
Example: osambiguous:
           debian: debian,ubuntu
oschkcmd
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: package checker tool.
Conffile: pb
Example: oschkcmd:
           deb: /usr/bin/lintian
oschkopt
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: package checker tool options.
Conffile: pb
Example: oschkcmd:
           rpm: -i
oscmd
Nature: Mandatory
Key: tool (pb or rpmbootstrap)
Value: coma separated list of commands that are mandatory on the underlying system
Conffile: pb
Example: oscmd:
           pb: tar,ls
oscmdopt
Nature: Mandatory
Key: tool (pb or rpmbootstrap)
Value: come separated list of commands that are optional on the underlying system
Conffile: pb
Example: oscmd:
           pb: svn2cl,svn,cvs
oscodename
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). In that case, should be an os-ver.
Value: code name. Mostly useful for debian and ubuntu, due to debootstrap.
Conffile: pb
Example: oscodename debian-5.0 = lenny
osfamily
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). In that case, should be an os.
Value: OS family name (used to group similar distribution for handling)
Conffile: pb
Example: osfamily:
           debian: du
osins
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: OS command to lauch in order to automatically install packages on it.
Conffile: pb
Example: osins:
           fedora: sudo yum -y install
oslocalins
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: OS command to lauch in order to automatically install local packages on it.
Conffile: pb
Example: oslocalins:
           debian: sudo dpkg -i 
osmindep
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). NB: a default value is highly interesting here.
Value: comma separated list of packages needed before setupvm|ve can be run. Install them with your distribution in VM or automatically in VE when possible.
Conffile: pb
Example: osmindep:
           default: perl,sudo,wget,tar,make,gzip
osnover
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: true|false. True means that this OS has no need to keep the version
Conffile: pb
Example: osnover:
           gentoo: true
ospatchcmd
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: package patch command. For RPM is implicit.
Conffile: pb
Example: ospatchcmd:
           deb: /usr/bin/patch
ospatchopt
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: package patch options.
Conffile: pb
Example: ospatchcmd:
           deb: -s -p1
ospathcmd-*
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: Full path name of the command mentioned after the '-' for the relative OS
Conffile: pb
Example: ospathcmd-halt:
           solaris: /usr/sbin/halt, ospathcmd-halt default = /sbin/halt
osperldep
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: comma separated list of perl modules needed by pb and not provided in a package format for the relative OS, and that will be installed from CPAN in your VM/VE.
Conffile: pb
Example: osperldep:
           rhel-5: Module-Build,File-MimeInfo,File-BaseDir,Mail-Sendmail
osperlver
Nature: Mandatory (for each module mentioned in B<osperldep>)
Key: Perl Module (as defined in B<osperldep>)
Value: Version of the perl module that needs to be found on CPAN.
Conffile: pb
Example: osperlver:
           Date-Manip: 5.54
ospkg
Nature: Optional (Mandatory if pbinstalltype is pkg)
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: comma separated list of packages that have to be installed in order for pb to be operational in the VE|VM
Conffile: pb
Example: ospkg:
           rhel-5: project-builder
ospkgdep
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: comma separated list of packages that are needed by pb and should be installed automatically in the VM/VE during the setupvm|ve phasis by pb.
Conffile: pb
Example: ospkgdep:
           rhel-5: wget,make,ntp,patch,perl-DateManip
osrelambfile
Nature: Mandatory (per OS mentioned in B<osambiguous>)
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). Should be the OS name here.
Value: full path name of the ambiguous file describing that distribution, as well as some others. All the distributions mentioned here should also be mentioned with their ambiguous other distribution in the B<osambiguous> parameter.
Conffile: pb
Example: osrelambfile:
           debian: /etc/debian_version
osrelexpr
Nature: Mandatory (per OS mentioned in B<osrelambfile> and B<osrelfile>)
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: the perl regular expression used to parse the B<osrelambfile> in order to extract from it the version of the distribution (in parenthesis to allow its usage as $1 by perl)
Conffile: pb
Example: osrelexpr:
           rhel: Red Hat (?:Enterprise Linux|Linux Advanced Server) .*release ([0-9.]+).* \(
osrelfile
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). Should be the OS name here.
Value: full path name of the file describing non-ambiguously that distribution. There should be a bijection between the file and the distribution name.
Conffile: pb
Example: osrelfile:
           fedora: /etc/fedora-release
osremovedotinver
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: true|false. If true, then no '.' (dot) character is kept in the version name of that OS.
Conffile: pb
Example: osremovedotinver:
           redhat: true
osrepo
Nature: Optional (Mandatory if pbinstalltype is pkg)
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: comma separated list of packages, yum repo or apt sources.list files to be added to the VE|VM to support package installation of pb
Conffile: pb
Example: osrepo:
           rpm: ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/$ddir/$dver/pb.repo
ossha
Nature: Optional (Mandatory if rpm type of package)
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: sha algorithm used br createrepo
Conffile: pb
Example: ossha:
           fedora-10: sha1
ossudoersmode
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: suffix that will be used in the name of the packages created. By default, concatenation of OS name and version.
Conffile: pb
Example: ossudoersmode:
           novell: 640
ossuffix
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: suffix that will be used in the name of the packages created. By default, concatenation of OS name and version.
Conffile: pb
Example: ossuffix:
           mandriva: mdv
ostype
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: build type grouping packages family. This is used internaly by pb to make various handling depending on that build type.
Conffile: pb
Example: ostype:
           rh: rpm, ostype md = rpm, ostype novell = rpm
osupd
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: OS command to lauch in order to automatically update th VM|VE
Conffile: pb
Example: osupd:
           fedora: sudo yum -y update
ossueminorrel
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: Should that OS distinguish between its minor version, considering them as different versions or not. Typically for CentOS where .x versions make incompatible changes.
Conffile: pb
Example: ossueminorrel:
           centos: true
pbadditionalgpg
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: GPG Key (hexadecimal) list of values separated by ',' that needs to be exported for this project. Useful when changing GPG keys and keeping old packages signed with the former key, use that field to give the value of that former key
Conffile: project
Example: pbadditionalgpg:
           pb: 0x141B9FF237DB9883
pbconfurl
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: B<pb URL> giving access to where the pb configuration dir is stored. Under that directory you have the same tree infrastructure as the upstream project, and under the pb packaging infra, including the project configuration file. Cf: man 
Conffile: home|project
Example: pbconfurl:
           fossology: svn+ssh://user@svn.project-builder.org/mondo/svn/pb/projects/fossology/pbconf, cvs+ssh://:ext:user@linuxcoe.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxcoe/pbconf
pbdefdir
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: local directory under which every pb related operation will take place. if not defined then /var/cache. A default value is highly interesting here. If you want to use VMs/VEs, then use $ENV{'HOME'} to make it portable to it.
Conffile: home
Example: pbdefdir:
           default: $ENV{'HOME'}/local/pb/projects
pbgitremote
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: Remote name of the git repository used. The default is origin
Conffile: home
Example: pbgitremote:
           python-redfish: upstream
pbgpgcheck
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: Whether the repository file should be generated specifying that gpg checking of the packages is on. Note that failures to sign packages is tolerated by default, which means that signatures can fail making the repository file generated not work. The default is to require gpg checks (value is 1)
Conffile: project
Example: pbgpgcheck:
           Lintel: 0
pbgpgserver
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: The GPG server to use when looking for GPG keys.
Conffile: pb
Example: pbgpgserver:
           default: ipv4.pool.sks-keyservers.net
pbinstalltype
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: file or pkg. Indicates how pb will be installed during the setupve|vm phase in the virtual environment|machine, using CPAN files or upstream packages. Only the dev team needs to use file as packages do not yet exist for it. Or when no repository exists to pull project-builder.org from.
Conffile: pb
Example: pbinstalltype:
           default: pkg
pbml
Nature: Optional (Mandatory if using announce command)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: white space separated list of e-mail adresses used to send announces with the pb announce option.
Conffile: project
Example: pbml:
           pb: pb-announce@project-builder.org pb-devel@project-builder.org
pbpackager
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: Firstname Name and e-mail address of the person packaging the software.
Conffile: project
Example: pbpackager:
           pb: Bruno Cornec <bruno@project-builder.org>
pbparallel
Nature: Optional
Key: tool (pb or rpmbootstrap)
Value: number of processes to execute in parallel. By default use the number of cores.
Conffile: pb
Example: pbparallel:
           pb: 12
pbpassfile
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: File containing the GPG passphrase that is used to sign packages
Conffile: home
Example: pbpassfile:
           pb: /users/me/secret/passfile
pbpasspath
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: The directory under which will be found your secret GPG key file.
Conffile: home
Example: pbpasspath:
           pb: /home/me/.gnupg
pbpassphrase
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: The GPG passphrase that is used to sign packages. Putting it in your conf file has security implications.
Conffile: home
Example: pbpassphrase:
           pb: TheSecretPassPhrase
pbpbr
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: whatever. As soon as this is defined, then that project is known as using pbr for source epansion.
Conffile: project
Example: pbpbr:
           python-redfish: 1
pbprojdir
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: local directory under which the project is locally exported. NB: a default value is highly interesting here. By default pbdefdir/projectname
Conffile: home
Example: pbprojdir:
           mondorescue: $ENV{'HOME'}/local/mondorescue
pbrepo
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: URL of the server hosting the upstream tar file.
Conffile: project
Example: pbrepo:
           mondorescue: ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org
pbshowsudo
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: false (by default), meaning that sudo commands executed with pb_system won't be shown in details, but that the associated comment will be used. For security cncerns, you may want to turn it to true in order to see what pb does with sudo to be safe. Turned on by debug flag.
Conffile: home
Example: pbshowsudo:
           mondorescue: true
pbsmtp
Nature: Optional (Mandatory if using the announce command)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: FQDN of the mail server to use to send announces. NB: a default value is highly interesting here.
Conffile: home
Example: pbsmtp:
           mondorescue: localhost
pbsockscmd
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: name of the command to use to socksify network calls. NB: a default value is highly interesting here.
Conffile: home
Example: pbsockscmd:
           default: tsocks
pbstoponerr
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: false (by default), meaning that commands giving errors will not stop execution of the pb job. For quicker error solving, you may want to turn it to true in order to stop at the first error. Be aware that project-builder.org is not robust enough to work fully correctly with this on. Especially some commands may in a justified way error out, and you still want the process to go on.
Conffile: home
Example: pbstoponerr:
           mondorescue: true
pbprojurl
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: B<pbprojurl> giving access to where the project is stored. Normaly provided by the project, but could be overloaded for specific authentication information in the home configuration file or when using a DVCS
Conffile: home|project
Example: pbprojurl:
           linuxcoe: cvs+ssh://:ext:user@linuxcoe.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxcoe, pbprojurl pb = svk:////local/pb
pbusesshagent
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: false means that you want pb to create a dedicated SSH key pair to dialog with VM|RM and false that you prefer to use an existing SSH Agent instead and existing keys
Conffile: pb
Example: pbusesshagent:
           default: false
pbwf
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: whatever. As soon as this is defined, then that project is known as not well formed (have a subdirectory in its tar file under which all sources are put named project-version). This should be reported upstream to the project. tar files generated by project-builder.org to not suffer from that. This is valid when packaging for tar files and not CMS.
Conffile: project
Example: pbwf:
           afio: 1
pkgtag
Nature: Optional
Key: package (as provided in defpkgdir or extpkgdir)
Value: Tag that needs to be used in package name (on rpm: name-ver-tag.arch.rpm).  Useful when different from the project version B<projtag> and when republishing a package due to package build modification (not code).
Conffile: project
Example: pkgtag:
           mindi-busybox: 2
pkgver
Nature: Optional
Key: package (as provided in defpkgdir or extpkgdir)
Value: Version that needs to be used in package name (on rpm: name-ver-tag.arch.rpm). Useful when different from the project version B<projver>.
Conffile: project
Example: pkgver:
           mindi-busybox: 1.7.3
projcomponent
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: The component in the distribution repository, e.g. main for debian/ubuntu free software, (or non-free, contrib) or contrib for mandriva non core component e.g.
Conffile: project
Example: projcomponent:
           Lintel: main
projtag
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: tag that will be used for all packages names (on rpm: name-ver-tag.arch.rpm) in the project. Each package can overwrite it using B<pkgtag>.
Conffile: project
Example: projtag:
           mondorescue: 1
projver
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: version that will be used for all packages names (on rpm: name-ver-tag.arch.rpm) in the project. Each package can overwrite it using B<pkgver>.
Conffile: project
Example: projver:
           mondorescue: 2.2.9
rbsconf
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: for mock it's the configuration directory. For rinse it's its configuration file. For rpmbootstrap it's not used yet.
Conffile: ve
Example: rbsconf:
           default: /etc/mock, rbsconf default = /etc/pb/pb-rinse.conf
rbsb4pi
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: for mock it's not used. For rinse it's the script to call before doing installation (in order change the mirror location). For rpmbootstrap it's not used yet.
Conffile: ve
Example: rbsb4pi:
           centos: /home/rinse/bin/before-post-install.sh
rbsmirrorsrv
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: URL for the mirror server for setting up a virtual environment
Conffile: ve
Example: rbsmirrorsrv:
           debian: http://mirrors1.kernel.org/
rbsmirrorupd
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: Relative path wrt B<rbsmirrorsrv> where updates are located
Conffile: ve
Example: rbsmirrorupd:
           mageia: ../updates
rbsopt
Nature: Optional
Key: tool used for rpm based VE. Could be one of rpmbootstrap, rinse, mock, ...
Value: Additional option to pass to the command
Conffile: ve
Example: rbsopt:
           rpmbootstrap: -k
rbspi
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: for mock it's not used. For rinse it's the script to call after doing installation for customization. For rpmbootstrap it's the script to call after doing installation for customization.
Conffile: ve
Example: rbspi:
           centos: /home/rinse/bin/post-install.sh
rmhost
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: IP address or name of the Remote Machine running the OS mentioned in the key, accessed through ssh.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmhost:
           default: localhost - rmhost hpux-11.3-ia64 = 10.10.10.10 - rmhost mandriva-2010.2-x86_64 = machine1.domain.name
rmlist
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: list of comma separated OS (under the form of os-ver-arch). The corresponding machines running these distributions are given in the rmpool parameter.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmlist:
           default: mandriva-2010.2-i386,fedora-14-i386,rhel-6-i386,rhel-5-i386,pensuse-11.3-i386,sles-11-i386,gentoo-nover-i386,debian-5.0-i386,ubuntu-10.10-i386,solaris-10-i386,mandriva-2010.2-x86_64,fedora-14-x86_64,rhel-6-x86_64,rhel-5-x86_64,opensuse-11.3-x86_64,sles-11-x86_64,gentoo-nover-x86_64,debian-5.0-x86_64,ubuntu-10.10-x86_64,solaris-10-x86_64,hp-ux-11.3-ia64,rhel-5-ia64
rmlogin
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: account name to use on the Remote Machine to build packages. Communication is done with ssh.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmlogin:
           default: pb
rmmonport
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: TCP port that is used to dialog with the monitor of the Remote Machine, to pass orders.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmmonport:
           default: 4444
rmntp
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: NTP server to contact for time accuracy with B<ospathcmd-ntpdate> before building.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmntp:
           default: 1.pool.ntp.org
rmpath
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: path where to find configuration file for Remote Machines management.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmpath:
           default: /home/remote
rmport
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: port number to use to communicate with the RM using the SSH protocol. This localport is redirected to the port 22 of the RM.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmport:
           pb: 2222,rmport mondorescue = 2223
rmtmout
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). The family name is generaly used here.
Value: Time in seconds to wait before interacting with the RM. This may correspond to the time the RM takes to boot.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmtmout:
           default: 10
rmtype
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: ssh. For the moment, only ssh is supported as a communication means with RM.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmrtype:
           default: ssh
sshdir
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: dirname into which packages are uploaded on the B<sshhost> machine.
Conffile: project
Example: sshdir:
           mondorescue: /pub/mondorescue
sshhost
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: hostname to connect to in order to deliver packages to the repository server.
Conffile: project
Example: sshhost:
           mondorescue: ftp.mondorescue.org
sshlogin
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: login to use when connecting to the repository server B<sshhost> for package delivery. whoami result by default
Conffile: project
Example: sshlogin:
           mondorescue: mylogin
sshport
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: port to use when connecting to the repository server B<sshhost> for package delivery. 22 by default.
Conffile: project
Example: sshport:
           mondorescue: 22
supfiles

Not used yet.

testver
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: true (meaning this is a test version, whose tag will be generated automatically, based on 0+date in order to allow regular updates, and still be inferior to tag 1 of the official version, and delivered under the test subdirectory of the ftp server). By default false.
Conffile: project
Example: testver:
           mondorescue: true
vedebtype
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: debootstrap (no other tool to create deb distro based chroot)
Conffile: ve
Example: vedebtype:
           default: debootstrap
velist
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: list of comma separated OS (under the form of os-ver-arch).
Conffile: ve
Example: velist:
           default: centos-4-i386,centos-5-i386,centos-4-x86_64,centos-5-x86_64,debian-5.0-i386,debian-5.0-x86_64,lsb-4.0.1-i386,lsb-4.0.1-x86_64
velogin
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: account name to use in the VE to build packages.
Conffile: ve
Example: velogin:
           default: pb
ventp
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: NTP server to contact for time accuracy with B<ospathcmd-ntpdate> before building.
Conffile: ve
Example: ventp:
           default: 1.pool.ntp.org
vepath
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: path where to find VEs. Ve will be created and used under that path. For each VE os-ver-arch, it will create a subdirectory tree os/ver/arch below that point.
Conffile: ve
Example: vepath:
           default: /home/rpmbootstrap
verebuild
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: true|false. True means that the VE should be rebuild before usage.
Conffile: ve
Example: verebuild:
           default: true
verpmtype
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: rpmbootstrap|rinse|mock (different tools to create a chroot environment for RPM based distributions. rpmbootstrap comes with pb. the 2 others are separate projects).
Conffile: ve
Example: verpmtype:
           default: rpmbootstrap
vesnap
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: true|false. True means that the snapshot of the VE should be used before call to the VE. This snapshot consists of a compressed tar pf the VE. Which means that you will always start from a known state, resulting of a former snapshot operation on the VE. Also speeds up a lot the VM launch operation.
Conffile: ve
Example: vesnap:
           default: true
vetype
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: chroot|schroot|docker. There are two different ways of launching a Virtual Environment activity in pb. For the moment only chroot and docker have been tested.
Conffile: ve
Example: vetype:
           default: chroot
vmbuildtm
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). Default value is set to vmtmout
Value: Time in seconds to wait before killing the VM if SSH port already used. This should corresponds to the time to send files, build the project and get packages in the VM.
Conffile: project
Example: vmbuildtm:
           default: 600,vmbuildtm mandriva-2009.0-x86_64 = 1200
vmcmd
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). NB: a default value is highly interesting here.
Value: Command to call to launch the VM emulator.  It can contain some options. Another way to pass options to the VM manager command launcher is by using the PBVMOPT environment variable, which comes in addition to the option vmopt.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmcmd:
           default: /usr/bin/kvm
vmhost
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: hostname to connect to in order to reach the VM through ssh. Generally redirected from a port on localhost.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmhost:
           default: localhost
vmlist
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: list of comma separated OS (under the form of os-ver-arch).
Conffile: vm
Example: vmlist:
           default: asianux-2-i386,asianux-3-i386,mandrake-10.1-i386,mandrake-10.2-i386,mandriva-2006.0-i386,mandriva-2007.0-i386,mandriva-2007.1-i386,mandriva-2008.0-i386,mandriva-2008.1-i386,mandriva-2009.0-i386,mandriva-2009.1-i386,mandriva-2010.0-i386,redhat-7.3-i386,redhat-9-i386,fedora-4-i386,fedora-5-i386,fedora-6-i386,fedora-7-i386,fedora-8-i386,fedora-9-i386,fedora-10-i386,fedora-11-i386,fedora-12-i386,rhel-2.1-i386,rhel-3-i386,rhel-4-i386,rhel-5-i386,suse-10.0-i386,suse-10.1-i386,suse-10.2-i386,opensuse-10.3-i386,opensuse-11.0-i386,opensuse-11.1-i386,opensuse-11.2-i386,sles-9-i386,sles-10-i386,sles-11-i386,gentoo-nover-i386,debian-3.1-i386,debian-4.0-i386,debian-5.0-i386,ubuntu-6.06-i386,ubuntu-7.04-i386,ubuntu-7.10-i386,ubuntu-8.04-i386,ubuntu-8.10-i386,ubuntu-9.04-i386,ubuntu-9.10-i386,solaris-10-i386,asianux-2-x86_64,asianux-3-x86_64,mandriva-2007.0-x86_64,mandriva-2007.1-x86_64,mandriva-2008.0-x86_64,mandriva-2008.1-x86_64,mandriva-2009.0-x86_64,mandriva-2009.1-x86_64,mandriva-2010.0-x86_64,fedora-6-x86_64,fedora-7-x86_64,fedora-8-x86_64,fedora-9-x86_64,fedora-10-x86_64,fedora-11-x86_64,fedora-12-x86_64,rhel-3-x86_64,rhel-4-x86_64,rhel-5-x86_64,suse-10.2-x86_64,opensuse-10.3-x86_64,opensuse-11.0-x86_64,opensuse-11.1-x86_64,opensuse-11.2-x86_64,sles-10-x86_64,sles-11-x86_64,gentoo-nover-x86_64,debian-4.0-x86_64,debian-5.0-x86_64,ubuntu-7.04-x86_64,ubuntu-7.10-x86_64,ubuntu-8.04-x86_64,ubuntu-8.10-x86_64,ubuntu-9.04-x86_64,ubuntu-9.10-x86_64,solaris-10-x86_64
vmlogin
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: account name to use in the VM to build packages. Communication is done with ssh.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmlogin:
           default: pb
vmmem
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: Memory size in MB to allocate to the VM.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmmem:
           default: 512
vmmonport
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: TCP port that is used to dialog with the monitor of the VM, to pass orders such as snapshot. Not really operational yet.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmmonport:
           default: 4444
vmntp
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: NTP server to contact for time accuracy with B<ospathcmd-ntpdate> before building.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmntp:
           default: 1.pool.ntp.org
vmopt
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). NB: a default value is highly interesting here.
Value: list of options to pass to the VM manager command launcher for that distribution. Another way to pass options to the VM manager command launcher is by using the PBVMOPT environment variable, which comes in addition to his option.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmopt:
           default: -m 384 -daemonize,vmopt mandriva-2009.0-i386 = -m 256 -daemonize -no-kvm
vmpath
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: path where to find VMs. They will be created and used under that path. For each VM os-ver-arch, it will create a os-ver-arch.qemu file below that point.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmpath:
           default: /home/qemu
vmport
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: port number to use to communicate with the VM using the SSH protocol. This localport is redirected to the port 22 of the VM.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmport:
           pb: 2222,vmport mondorescue = 2223
vmsize
Nature: Mandatory
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch).
Value: Size of the VM to create when using the newvm command of pb.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmsize:
           default: 7G
vmsnap
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: true|false. True means that the snapshot of the VM called pb should be used. Which means that you will always start from a known state, resulting of a former snapshot operation on the VM. Also speeds up a lot the VM launch operation.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmsnap:
           default: true
vmtmout
Nature: Optional
Key: OS (could be from the most generic up to the most specific from ostype, osfamily, os, os-ver, os-ver-arch). NB: a default value is highly interesting here.
Value: Time in seconds to wait before interacting with the VM. This should correspond to the time the VM takes to boot.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmtmout:
           default: 180,vmtmout mandriva-2009.0-x86_64 = 500
vmtype
Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: qemu|kvm. For the moment, only QEMU or KVM are supported as virtualization technologies.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmtype:
           default: kvm
webdir
Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: Target directory containing the web content in the project that should be delivered when using the sbx|cms2webssh|pkg command of pb.
Conffile: project
Example: webdir:
           mondorescue: website
websshdir
Nature: Optional (when not using *2webssh commands)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: dirname into which content is uploaded on the B<websshhost> machine.
Conffile: project
Example: websshdir:
           mondorescue: /var/www/html
websshhost
Nature: Optional (when not using *2webssh commands)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: hostname to connect to in order to deliver content to the Web server.
Conffile: project
Example: websshhost:
           mondorescue: www.mondorescue.org
websshlogin
Nature: Optional (when not using *2webssh commands)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: login to use when connecting to the Web server B<websshhost> for content delivery.
Conffile: project
Example: websshlogin:
           mondorescue: mylogin
websshport
Nature: Optional (when not using *2webssh commands)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or pb environment variable)
Value: port to use when connecting to the Web server B<websshhost> for content delivery.
Conffile: project
Example: websshport:
           mondorescue: 22

OTHER PARAMETERS

pb URLs
The pbprojurl and pbconfurl parameters support multiple schemas to point to the repositories to use.
They are parsed by project-builder.org to communicate with them. 

The protocols can be git, git+svn, svk, svn, cvs, hg. 
If you have write access to the repository, you'll generally use an ssh access which will be noted by a +ssh at the end of the protocol used. If you don't you may use a +http(s) e.g. to access the repository. 

Examples:

pbprojurl: 
  fossology: git+https://github.com/fossology/fossology.git
  linuxcoe: cvs+ssh://:ext:bcornec@linuxcoe.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxcoe
  pb: svn+ssh://svn.mondorescue.org/prj/svn/pb

=> You access the upstream FOSSology project in read mode (by https) and the project uses git as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to build.
=> You access the upstream LinuxCOE project in write mode (by ssh) and the project uses CVS as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to build.
=> For Project-builder.org itself, you access the upstream LinuxCOE project in write mode (by ssh) and the project uses CVS as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to build.
=> You access the upstream project-builder.org project in write mode (by ssh) and the project uses subversion as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to build.

If you use instead:
  pb: git+svn+ssh://svn.mondorescue.org/prj/svn/pb

=> You access the upstream project-builder.org project in write mode (by ssh) and the project uses subversion as a VCS, and you use git svn to manage locally the software with git, that will also be used by project-builder.org to build.


In some cases, there is no repository and the files are hosted remotely, in which case you can use an http(s) or ftp protocol

Examples:

pbprojurl: 
  afio: ftp://localhost/src/afio-2.5.tar.gz

=> You access the project in read mode as a tar compressed file format using ftp to have access to it and that will also be used by project-builder.org to build.
pb Directories
In order to use project-builder.org to build packages for a project, you need to declare certain directories in your configuration file, and two URLS, as defined in the previous paragraph, linked to them.

Tree will look like this:

            maint pbdefdir                         PBDEFDIR            dev dir (optional)
                 |                                                        |
           ------------------------                                --------------------
           |                      |                                |                  |
        pbproj1                pbproj2             pb       pbproj1           pbproj2   pbDIR
           |                                                       |
 ---------------------------------------------                ----------
 *      *        *       |        |          |                *        *
tag    dev    pbconf    ...    pbbuild  pbdelivery PBCONFDIR dev      tag
 |               |                         |       PBDESTDIR           |
 ---          ------                    pbrc.yml   PBBUILDDIR       -------
   |          |    |                                                |     |
  1.1        dev  tag                                              1.0   1.1                PBDIR
                   |
                -------
                |     |
               1.0   1.1                           PBROOTDIR
                      |
              ----------------------------------
              |          |           |         |
            pkg1      pbproj1.yml   pbfilter   pbcl
              |
       -----------------
       |      |        |
      rpm    deb    pbfilter


(*) By default, if no relocation in .pbrc.yml, dev dir is taken in the maint pbdefdir (when appropriate)
Names under a pbproj and the corresponding pbconf should be similar


The first couple to declare is the pbconfurl and pbconfdir. They declare the location of the repository containing project-builder.org configuration files and the local directory in which they are checked out. They do not need to be hosted in the upstream repository and can be managed completely separately. If pbconfdir is not defined, by default it will be taken as the concatention of pbdefdir and the project name. If that's not the case in your setup, then specify the pbconfdir value

Examples:

pbconfurl: 
 python-redfish: git+ssh://git@github.com:bcornec/python-redfish.git
 fossology: git+https://github.com/fossology/fossology.git
 uuwl: git+svn+ssh://svn.mondorescue.org/prj/svn/pb/projects/uuwl/pbconf
 pb: git+svn+ssh://svn.mondorescue.org/prj/svn/pb/pbconf
 afio: git+svn+ssh://svn.project-builder.org/prj/svn/pb/projects/afio/pbconf
 linuxcoe: cvs+ssh://:ext:bcornec@linuxcoe.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxcoe/pbconf

pbconfdir:
 python-redfish: $ENV{'HOME'}/Work/bruno/prj/python-redfish/pbconf
 fossology: $ENV{'HOME'}/Work/bruno/prj/fossology/git/pbconf
 uuwl: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git/pb/projects/uuwl/pbconf

pbdefdir:
 default: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git/pb/projects
 python-redfish: $ENV{'HOME'}/Work/bruno/prj
 fossology: $ENV{'HOME'}/Work/bruno/prj/fossology
 uuwl: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git
 pb: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git

=> You access the project-builder.org configuration files for python-redfish in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using git as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to build packages. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the git repository from the pbconfurl URL into the pbconfdir directory, expanding the HOME directory on the fly. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch. The pbdefdir will be used for other parameters, but the pbconfdir value takes precedence (in this case both variable mean the same local location anyway). Here the upstream python-redfish project is hosting the pbconf info directly.
=> You access the project-builder.org configuration files for FOSSology in read-only mode (by https) and this project is using git as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to build packages. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the git repository from the pbconfurl URL into the pbconfdir directory, expanding the HOME directory on the fly. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch. The pbdefdir will be used for other parameters, but the pbconfdir value takes precedence (in this case both variable mean the same local location anyway). Here the upstream python-redfish project is hosting the pbconf info directly.
=> You access the project-builder.org configuration files for UUWL in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using SVN as a VCS to manage the repo and git svn will be used by project-builder.org to build packages. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the SVN repository from the pbconfurl URL into the pbconfdir directory, expanding the HOME directory on the fly. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch. The pbdefdir will be used for other parameters, but the pbconfdir value takes precedence (in this case variables point to different locations). Here the upstream UUWL project is not hosting the pbconf info directly, which is managed in the upstream SVN project-builder.org repository.
=> You access the project-builder.org configuration files for project-builder.org in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using SVN as a VCS to manage the repo and git svn will be used by project-builder.org to build packages. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the SVN repository from the pbconfurl URL into a directory whose name is the concatenation of the pb pbdefdir path and then the project name (pb value setup with the -p option see below, here pb), expanding the HOME directory on the fly, as there is no pbconfdir value setup for this project. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch. Here the upstream project-builder.org project is hosting the pbconf info directly.
=> You access the project-builder.org configuration files for afio in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using SVN as a VCS to manage the repo and git svn will be used by project-builder.org to build packages. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the SVN repository from the pbconfurl URL into a directory whose name is the concatenation of the default pbdefdir path and then the project name (pb value setup with the -p option see below, here afio), expanding the HOME directory on the fly, as there is no pbconfdir value setup for this project, and no value for this project for the pbdefdir parameter, only the default one. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch. Here the upstream afio project is not hosting the pbconf info directly, which is managed in the upstream SVN project-builder.org repository.
=> You access the project-builder.org configuration files for LinuxCOE in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using CVS as a VCS, that will be used by project-builder.org to build packages. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the CVS repository from the pbconfurl URL into a directory whose name is the concatenation of the default pbdefdir path and then the project name (pb value setup with the -p option see below, here linuxcoe), expanding the HOME directory on the fly, as there is no pbconfdir value setup for this project, and no value for this project for the pbdefdir parameter, only the default one. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch. Here the upstream LinuxCOE project is hosting the pbconf info directly.

Note that ultimately, if pbdefdir is not defined, project-builder.org will use /var/cache by default, which may fail if you do not have appropriate write rights.

The second couple to declare is the pbprojurl and pbprojdir. Similarly, they declare the location of the repository containing the upstream project files and the local directory in which they are checked out. If pbprojdir is not defined, by default it will be taken as the concatention of pbdefdir and the project name. If that's not the case in your setup, then specify the pbprojdir value

Examples:

pbprojurl: 
 python-redfish: git+ssh://git@github.com:bcornec/python-redfish.git
 fossology: git+ssh://git@github.com:fossology/fossology.git
 uuwl: git+svn+ssh://svn.mondorescue.org/prj/svn/uuwl
 pb: git+svn+ssh://svn.mondorescue.org/prj/svn/pb
 afio: ftp://localhost/src/afio-2.5.tar.gz
 linuxcoe: cvs+ssh://:ext:bcornec@linuxcoe.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxcoe

pbprojdir:
 fossology: $ENV{'HOME'}/Work/bruno/prj/fossology/git
 pb: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git/pb
 linuxcoe: $ENV{'HOME'}/LinuxCOE/cvs

pbdefdir:
 default: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git/pb/projects
 python-redfish: $ENV{'HOME'}/Work/bruno/prj
 fossology: $ENV{'HOME'}/Work/bruno/prj/fossology
 uuwl: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git
 pb: $ENV{'HOME'}/svn-git

=> You access the upstream files for python-redfish in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using git as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to manage the sources. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the git repository from the pbprojurl URL into a directory whose name is the concatenation of the python-redfish pbdefdir path and then the project name (pb value setup with the -p option see below, here python-redfish), expanding the HOME directory on the fly, as there is no pbprojdir value setup for this project. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch.
=> You access the upstream files for FOSSology in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using git as a VCS, that will also be used by project-builder.org to manage the sources. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the git repository from the pbprojurl URL into the pbprojdir directory, expanding the HOME directory on the fly. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch. The pbdefdir will be used for other parameters, but the pbprojdir value takes precedence (in this case variables point to different locations).
=> You access the upstream files for UUWL in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using SVN as a VCS to manage the repo and git svn will be used by project-builder.org to manage the sources. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the git repository from the pbprojurl URL into a directory whose name is the concatenation of the uuwl pbdefdir path and then the project name (pb value setup with the -p option see below, here uuwl), expanding the HOME directory on the fly, as there is no pbprojdir value setup for this project. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch.
=> You access the upstream files for project-builder.org in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using SVN as a VCS to manage the repo and git svn will be used by project-builder.org to manage the sources. The first time, project-builder.org will clone the git repository from the pbprojurl URL into the pbprojdir directory, expanding the HOME directory on the fly. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch.
=> You access the upstream files for afio in read-only mode and this project, which isn't developed anymore upstream, is just providing a compressed tar file using FTP as a VCS and it will be used by project-builder.org to manage the sources. The first time, project-builder.org will extract the sources from the tar file pointed to by the pbprojurl URL into a directory whose name is the concatenation of the default pbdefdir path, as there is no afio entry for this parameter, and then the project name (pb value setup with the -p option see below, here afio), expanding the HOME directory on the fly, as there is no pbprojdir value setup for this project.
=> You access the upstream files for LinuxCOE in write mode (by ssh) and this project is using CVS as a VCS to manage the repo and it will be used by project-builder.org to manage the sources. The first time, project-builder.org will export the CVS repository from the pbprojurl URL into the pbprojdir directory, expanding the HOME directory on the fly. If the project is already cloned there it will just use it, with the current branch.


In order to help you validate the value for a given parameter, you may want to use pb -p pbproj getconf param_to_consider
pb Environment Variables
 The following environment variables are used by pb when declared to change its behaviour:

 PBACCOUNT
   Default: Empty
   Value: Login to use to connect to the VM/VE/RM. Also see -a option.

 pb
   Default: Empty
   Value: Name of the project to build for. Also see -p option.

 PBROOTDIR
   Default: Empty
   Value: Root directory of the configuration files for this project. Also see -r option.

 PBV
   Default: Empty
   Value: List of VM/VE/RM to build for, separated by ','. Also see -m option

 PBVCSOPT
   Default: Empty
   Value: Options to pass to the VCS command when interacting with the repository.

 PBVMOPT
   Default: Empty
   Value: Options to pass to the VM engine to launch VMs.

 PBVMTMOUT
   Default: 120
   Value: Timeout in seconds to wait for th launch of the VM before communicating with it. Also see parameter vmtmout in configuration files. Takes precedence.

 TMPDIR
   Default: /tmp
   Value: Directory where temporary files will be created.

 ftp_proxy
 http_proxy
 https_proxy
   Default: Empty
   Value: URL of the proxy server to use for these protocols.


 The following environment variables are generated by pb and can be used in build scripts:

 PBBUILDDIR
   Value: Build directory (pbbuild) where packages are created locally. See the schema of ProjectBuilder::Env man page.

 PBCMSLOGFILE
   Value: Intermediate log file generated for stable versions to create ChangeLog.

 PBCONFDIR
   Value: Configuration directory (pbconf) where configuration files for the project are stored. See the schema of ProjectBuilder::Env man page. See pbconfdir parameter.

 PBDEFDIR
   Value: Default directory where the project-builder.org will host host files for the projects, parent of pb directories. See the schema of ProjectBuilder::Env man page. See pbdefdir parameter.

 PBDESTDIR
   Value: Destination directory (pbdelivery) where intermediate tar files are created locally. See the schema of ProjectBuilder::Env man page.

 PBDIR
   Value: Directory where an upstream version is located. See the schema of ProjectBuilder::Env man page. Correspond to PBROOTDIR for project-builder.org conf files.

 PBETC
   Value: .pbrc.yml configuration file of the user located in his HOME directory.

 
   Value: E-mail address of the packager, used also to get GPG information. See pbpackager parameter.

 PBPASSFILE
   Value: File containing the pass phrase for the GPG signature. Used with PBPASSPATH. See pbpassfile parameter.

 PBPASSPATH
   Value: Path of the file containing the pass phrase for the GPG signature. Used with PBPASSFILE. See pbpasspath parameter.

 PBPASSPHRASE
   Value: Pass phrase for the GPG signature. Used instead of PBPASSPATH+PBPASSFILE. See pbpassphrase parameter.

 website
   Value: Name of the package built.

 pbDIR
   Value: Directory where an upstream project is located. See the schema of ProjectBuilder::Env man page. Correspond to pb dir under PBDEFDIR for project-builder.org conf files.

 pbTAG
   Value: Tag of the packages created, indicating the build procedure version. See pbprojtag parameter.

 pbVER
   Value: Version of the packages created. See pbprojver parameter.

 2692ISION
   Value: Revision of the project in the VCS. Revision for SVN, commit ID for git, ...

 PBVMPORT
   Value: Offset to the base port to communicate with the VM

 PBSOLDESTDIR
   Value: Target directory for the Solaris prototype

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