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 near from a a perl hash structure: 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, conf /etc/pb/pb.conf or /usr/local/etc/pb/pb.conf, VE vepath/.pbrc, VM vmpath/.pbrc, or project project.pb) and an example of use.

OPTIONS

defpkgdir

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: coma 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: directory where to deliver packages once built for ftp/web access.
Conffile: project
Example: delivery mondorescue = prod

extpkgdir

Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: coma 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: coma 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

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: coma 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: come 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

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: coma 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

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: coma 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: 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: coma 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: coma 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
osrelexpr rhel = Red Hat (?:Enterprise Linux|Linux Advanced Server) .*release ([0-9.]+).* \(
Example: 

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: coma separated list of packages or repo file 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

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

pbconfurl

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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

pbinstalltype

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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

pbml

Nature: Optional (Mandatory if using announce command)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: The directory under which will be found your secret key file.
Conffile: home
Example: pbpasspath pb = /home/me/.gnupg

pbpassphrase

Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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

pbprojdir

Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: URL of the server hosting the upstream tar file.
Conffile: project
Example: pbrepo mondorescue = ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org

pbsmtp

Nature: Optional (Mandatory if using the announce command)
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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

pburl

Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: B<pb URL> 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: pburl linuxcoe = cvs+ssh://:ext:user@linuxcoe.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxcoe, pburl pb = svk:////local/pb

pbwf

Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 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

projtag

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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

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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: list of coma 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: NTP server to contact for time accuracy with B<rmntpcmd> before building.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmntp default = 1.pool.ntp.org

rmntpcmd

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: NTP command to use to perform time synchronization with the B<rmntp> server. Use full path name, as this command will be used in the sudoers file to allow its launch by root.
Conffile: rm
Example: rmntpcmd default = /usr/sbin/ntpdate,rmntpcmd opensuse-10.1-i386 = /usr/sbin/sntp -P no -r

rmpath

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: login to use when connecting to the repository server B<sshhost> for package delivery.
Conffile: project
Example: sshlogin mondorescue = mylogin

sshport

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: port to use when connecting to the repository server B<sshhost> for package delivery.
Conffile: project
Example: sshport mondorescue = 22

supfiles

Not used yet.

testver

Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: list of coma 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: NTP server to contact for time accuracy with B<ventpcmd> before building.
Conffile: ve
Example: ventp default = 1.pool.ntp.org

ventpcmd

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: NTP command to use to perform time synchronization with the B<ventp> server. Use full path name, as this command will be used in the sudoers file to allow its launch by root.
Conffile: ve
Example: ventpcmd default = /usr/sbin/ntpdate

vepath

Nature: Mandatory
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: chroot|schroot. There are two different ways of launching a chroot activity in pb. For the moment only chroot has been tested.
Conffile: ve
Example: vertype 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: list of coma 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: NTP server to contact for time accuracy with B<vmntpcmd> before building.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmntp default = 1.pool.ntp.org

vmntpcmd

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: NTP command to use to perform time synchronization with the B<vmntp> server. Use full path name, as this command will be used in the sudoers file to allow its launch by root.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmntpcmd default = /usr/sbin/ntpdate,vmntpcmd opensuse-11.0-i386 = /usr/sbin/sntp -P no -r

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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ environment variable)
Value: qemu|kvm. For the moment, only QEMU or KVM are supported as virtualization technologies.
Conffile: vm
Example: vmrtype default = kvm

webdir

Nature: Optional
Key: project (as defined in the -p option or PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 PBPROJ 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 =item pb_URL =item pb_directory_desc =item pb_environment_variables