rebuilderd-sync.conf(5) File Formats Manual rebuilderd-sync.conf(5)

rebuilderd-sync.conf - rebuildctl pkgs sync-profile configuration files

/etc/rebuilderd-sync.conf

This file allows configuring profiles that can be started with a systemd timer or a cronjob. This way you don't need to provide these options on the commandline all the time.

distro=

The name of the distro, currently either archlinux or debian.

suite=

This is for packages that have multiple suites/repositories, like main, contrib, non-free or core, extra and community.

architectures=

The architectures of the package list we want to import.

releases=

Import specific releases. This option has no effect in rolling-release distributions like Arch Linux but is important for eg. Debian. If the same version is present in multiple releases the package is only imported once.

source=

This is the url we want to import from. For Arch Linux this might look like: 
source = "https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch"

maintainers= (optional)

Select packages from specific maintainers. The strings are supposed to match the beginning of the packager field of the packages. 
maintainers = ["kpcyrd", "Levente Polyak"]

pkgs= (optional)

Select packages by name: 
pkgs = ["rebuilderd", "python-*"]

excludes= (optional)

If a package matches one of these patterns it's always going to be ignored. 
excludes = ["tensorflow*"]

Both pkgs= and excludes= support glob patterns. If maintainers= and pkgs= are both not set then every package is selected.

## rebuild all of core
[profile."archlinux-core"]
distro = "archlinux"
suite = "core"
architecture = "x86_64"
source = "https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch"
## rebuild community packages of specific maintainers, or allow-list packages by name.
## If no filter is set, all packages are imported, if both filters are set the package only
## has to match one of them to be included.
#[profile."archlinux-community"]
#distro = "archlinux"
#suite = "community"
#architecture = "x86_64"
#source = "https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch"
#maintainers = ["somebody"]
#pkgs = ["some-pkg", "python-*"]
#excludes = ["tensorflow*"]

Enable the systemd timer to automatically sync specific profiles:

systemctl enable --now rebuilderd-sync@archlinux-core.timer

The argument behind the @ is refering to the section in the config file.

rebuilderd(1), rebuildctl(1).

rebuilderd was originally written by kpcyrd and is hosted at https://github.com/kpcyrd/rebuilderd

2023-10-18