SBUILD-ABORT(1)

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💖 SBUILD-ABORT(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, because today we're talking about sbuild-abort — the lil emergency brake for your sbuild situation. it's a Debian sbuild thing. it's giving "one button, one job, one moment of chaos averted". let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

sbuild-abort — abort the current sbuild build 🛑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sbuild-abort [-h|--help | -V|--version]
buildd-abort [-h|--help | -V|--version]

so like, you can call it by two names, sbuild-abort or buildd-abort, and honestly both of them just want to know if you need help or a version number. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — sbuild-abort goes and kills the currently running dpkg-buildpackage process. that's it. that's the job. very "you're done here, bestie" energy.

but — and this is important, no cap — it will not kill anything if more than one process is found. it's not out here guessing which one you meant, it's not playing detective, it's not picking a favorite. more than one match? it simply does nothing. king behavior honestly 👑

fr fr: multiple processes = no kill. one process = bye bye. don't ask it to be brave.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Actions 💖

  • -h, --help — displays this manual, i.e. the page you're literally reading right now (meta, iconic)
  • -V, --version — prints version information. numbers. lore. ✨

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

say you've got a build going and you're like "no ❤️, we're stopping". you'd do:

% sbuild-abort↵

and that's the whole ritual. type it, hit it, the build goes away. lowkey beautiful 😭

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the legends who made this happen:

  • Roman Hodek.
  • Ryan Murray.
  • Roger Leigh.
  • Copyright © 1998 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>.
  • Copyright © 2003 Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>.
  • Copyright © 2006–2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go check out the main character, iykyk 💜

💖 that's the whole page!! this was Version 0.91.10ubuntu1, dated 29 June 2026 — shouting out the Debian sbuild crew for keeping the build servers unbothered, as they should be. stay slaying, bestie 💅✨

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