flatpak-build-export(1) Create a repository from a build directory

SYNOPSIS

flatpak build-export [OPTION...] LOCATION DIRECTORY [BRANCH]

DESCRIPTION

Creates or updates a repository with an application build. LOCATION is the location of the repository. DIRECTORY must be a finalized build directory. If BRANCH is not specified, it is assumed to be "master".

If LOCATION exists, it is assumed to be an OSTree repository, otherwise a new OSTree repository is created at this location. The repository can be inspected with the ostree tool.

The contents of DIRECTORY are committed on the branch with name app/APPNAME/ARCH/BRANCH, where ARCH is the architecture of the runtime that the application is using. A commit filter is used to enforce that only the contents of the files/ and export/ subdirectories and the metadata file are included in the commit, anything else is ignored.

The repo-update command should be used to update repository metadata whenever application builds are added to a repository.

OPTIONS

The following options are understood:

-h, --help

Show help options and exit.

-s, --subject=SUBJECT

One line subject for the commit message.

-b, --body=BODY

Full description for the commit message.

--arch=ARCH

Specify the architecture component of the branch to export. Only host compatible architectures can be specified.

--exclude=PATTERN

Exclude files matching PATTERN from the commit.

--include=PATTERN

Don't exclude files matching PATTERN from the commit, even if they match the --export patterns.

--metadata=FILENAME

Use the specified filename as metadata in the exported app instead of the default file (called metadata). This is useful if you want to commit multiple things from a single build tree, typically used in combination with --files and --exclude.

--files=SUBDIR

Use the files in the specified subdirectory as the file contents, rather than the regular files directory.

--update-appstream

Run appstream-builder and to update the appstream branch after build.

--gpg-sign=KEYID

Sign the commit with this GPG key

--gpg-homedir=PATH

GPG Homedir to use when looking for keyrings

--runtime

Export a runtime instead for an app (this uses the usr subdir as files).

-v, --verbose

Print debug information during command processing.

--version

Print version information and exit.

EXAMPLES

$ flatpak build-export ~/repos/gnome-calculator/ ~/build/gnome-calculator/ org.gnome.Calculator 

Commit: 9d0044ea480297114d03aec85c3d7ae3779438f9d2cb69d717fb54237acacb8c
Metadata Total: 605
Metadata Written: 5
Content Total: 1174
Content Written: 1
Content Bytes Written: 305

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