• © Andrew Fenn, andrewfenn@gmail.com, 2015
• This application is licenced under [GNU General Public License, Version 3.0]

Fendeb is a collection of helper scripts used to quickly get you using pbuilder and building debian packages from source.

I use pbuilder a lot to build and test debian packages a lot and I often find it difficult to manage especially if you're building the same package on different releases such as the case is with distributions like Ubuntu.

I made fendeb as an easy way to use pbuilder without having to type in any of the pbuilder commands or have to remember my exact environment variables.

To install simply download the source code and type the standard make command

$ sudo make install

This will install fendeb and it's man page

For making a new environment

$ fendeb create

For updating an environment

$ fendeb update

For building a package with an environment

$ fendeb make somepackage.dsc

Your current environment is set in ~/.fendeb/current-build. You can set any environment which you have already created that is listed in ~/.fendeb/available-builds.

To switch to a different environment you either type

$ fendeb build

and then select from the interactive prompt, or you can type

$ fendeb build debian/stable/amd64

which will switch your environment to the Debian Stable AMD64 environment, assuming you have already created that environment.