DAR is a framework for building packages in clean build environments (distributions).
It consists of tools to create and manage these build environments, to build packages
for each build environment and to update multiple Apt repositories.
DAR was my abbreviation for "Dag Apt Repository",
which was my own collection of packages. But soon the scripts took over the name.
dar now stand for Dynamic Apt Repository builder or maybe not.
With DAR you can do any of the following things
- Install a basic build environment (for several distros, eg rh73, rh80, su81, md91) - todo
- Install packages and upgrade build environments
- Configure per-package information (archs, distro's, special compile info)
- Build packages against any or all of these distro's for multiple archs
- Manage RPM spec-files
- Manage Apt repositories
- Sync local Apt repository to a remote repository
- Downloads sources/patches automatically
- Works with several additional tools:
- soapbox (sandbox)
- compartment (chroot, set*id, capabilities)
- distcc (distributed compiler)
- ccache (compiler cache)
- Upstream - contact persons to inform of new packages
- Dists - distributions this SPEC file will be build for by default
- Archs - architectures this SPEC file will be build for by default
- SourceDists - distribution to build the source package against
- Tag - repository name ('tag') to use by default
- Soapbox - enable/disable soapbox (enabled if host and guest have soapbox)
- Compartment - enable/disable imprison (enabled if host has imprison installed)
- Ccache - enable/disable ccache (enabled if guest has ccache installed)
- Distcc - enable/disable distcc (enabled if guest has distcc installed and DISTCC_HOSTS set)
- Authority - the repository that is authoritative for this package
- Screenshot(URL) - a screenshot and a click-through URL for the website
Update repositories with package libmad-devel and soapbox.dar-build -f -d rh80 -t test /mnt/dar/SPECS/kernel-*
Sync local repositories with remote repositories.dar-update libmad-devel soapbox
Execute a command in each build environment.dar-sync
I have pretty old packages available at: You can have access to the latest release via subversion from: http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/tools/dar/dar-exec cat /etc/redhat-release
Anything to add/change to this page?