SBUILD-UPDATE(1)

💖 NAME 💖

ok so sbuild-update — it's the girl who updates, upgrades, and cleans your sbuild chroot using apt-get. bestie said "hygiene" and meant it. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sbuild-update [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [--arch=architecture]
[-u|--update] [-g|--upgrade] [-d|--dist-upgrade] [-c|--clean]
[-a|--autoclean] [-r|--autoremove] [--chroot-mode=schroot|sudo] CHROOT1
[CHROOT2 [CHROOTn...]]

(DEPRECATED) sbuild-upgrade [-h|--help] [-V|--version] CHROOT1 [CHROOT2
[CHROOTn...]]

(DEPRECATED) sbuild-distupgrade [-h|--help] [-V|--version] CHROOT1
[CHROOT2 [CHROOTn...]]

(DEPRECATED) sbuild-clean [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [-c|--clean]
[-a|--autoclean] [-r|--autoremove] CHROOT1 [CHROOT2 [CHROOTn...]]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

sbuild-update is literally just out here running apt-get inside the chroot (or chroots) you point it at 👑, and depending on which flags you fed it, it'll do an update, an upgrade, a dist-upgrade, a clean, an autoclean, and/or an autoremove. You pick the combo, she executes. no cap.

About the old heads tho: sbuild-upgrade, sbuild-distupgrade, and sbuild-clean are deprecated. 💀 They're giving "still here but not thriving" — these days they simply run sbuild-update with the appropriate options (--upgrade for sbuild-upgrade, --dist-upgrade for sbuild-distupgrade) plus whatever arguments got passed into the scripts. so like, the vibe is preserved, the script is not.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🎀 Actions

• -h, --help — shows you this whole manual. your lil cheat sheet, bestie 🫶
• -V, --version — prints the version info. the receipts. 🧾
• --arch=architecture — updates the chroot for the architecture you specify.
• -u, --update — performs an apt-get update.
• -g, --upgrade — performs an apt-get upgrade.
• -d, --dist-upgrade — performs an apt-get dist-upgrade.
• -c, --clean — performs an apt-get clean.
• -a, --autoclean — performs an apt-get autoclean.
• -r, --autoremove — performs an apt-get autoremove.

🧚 Chroot selection

• --chroot-mode=schroot|sudo — the sbuild chroot backend of the chroot you're updating. fair warning: the autopkgtest backend is not supported by this method, because autopkgtest backends are always ephemeral and changes never persist — it's giving "you had a moment, it's gone" 😭. To update a chroot for schroot and sudo, sbuild-update must be executed with superuser privileges (for example, by using sudo). And if you're running the unshare mode, sbuild-update is literally without function — instead, recreate the tarball from scratch or just let sbuild manage them for you. Defaults to 'schroot'. 💅
• CHROOT — the chroot to use. btw bestie, ‘o’, ‘s’, ‘t’ and ‘u’ and ‘e’ can be used as abbreviations for ‘oldstable’, ‘stable’, ‘testing’, ‘unstable’ and ‘experimental’, respectively. iykyk. 🌈

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

To update the unstable chroot:

% sbuild-update --update unstable

To upgrade the unstable chroot:

% sbuild-update --upgrade unstable

To clean the unstable chroot:

% sbuild-update --clean unstable

To perform an update, dist-upgrade, autoclean, and autoremove for the unstable chroot:

% sbuild-update -udar unstable

see that -udar?? one flag, four jobs, main character energy. ate. 💅

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

• Roger Leigh.
• Andres Mejia.

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

• Copyright © 2006–2009 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.
• Copyright © 2010 Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com>.

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🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

sbuild(1), sbuild-apt(1)

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and that's the whole thing, angel — this was Version 0.91.10ubuntu1, dated 29 June 2026. go update those chroots, bestie, you got this 🎀✨🦋