SBUILD-DESTROYCHROOT(8)

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version 0.89.3 · 10 versions
, in debian trixie

💖 SBUILD-DESTROYCHROOT 💖

ok so bestie, welcome to sbuild-destroychroot — the sbuild manual page that tells you how to get rid of a chroot. Yeah. That's the whole vibe. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sbuild-destroychroot [-h|--help | -V|--version] CHROOT

That's it. That's the whole incantation. 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk: sbuild-destroychroot does not actually delete anything. I know. I know. 😭

What it does do is tell you which commands to run so you can remove a chroot — specifically one that was made by sbuild-createchroot. Think of it as your very helpful friend who stands next to the trash can and says "okay now press the button" instead of pressing it for you. 💅

And the important part, no cap: this command will not make any changes to the system by itself. Zero. None. Nada. It's purely here to hand you the instructions. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

💫 Actions

  • -h, --help — displays this manual page. iconic behaviour honestly.
  • -V, --version — prints version information. that's it, that's the tweet.

🧚 Chroot selection

  • CHROOT — the chroot you wanna use. and here's the cute shortcut part: ‘o’, ‘s’, ‘t’, ‘u’ and ‘e’ can be used as abbreviations for ‘oldstable’, ‘stable’, ‘testing’, ‘unstable’ and ‘experimental’, respectively. one letter = whole suite name. we love efficiency. ⭐

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

say you want the instructions for yeeting an unstable chroot. you'd literally just do:

% sbuild-destroychroot unstable↵

and it hands you the recipe. easy. 🍓

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues. (that's the whole list. one legend. periodt.) 💜

Copyright © 2016 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

so yeah, that's the tea 🎀 you're all caught up on the sbuild-destroychroot lore (part of Debian sbuild, btw, manual section 8, in case anyone asks). this iconic little page is from Version 0.89.3+deb13u4, dated 28 December 2025. go forth and destroy some chroots (responsibly, with the instructions it gives you 😤). mwah 💋🌸

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