flatpak-build-finish.xml

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    <refentryinfo>
        <title>flatpak build-finish</title>
        <productname>flatpak</productname>

        <authorgroup>
            <author>
                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
                <firstname>Alexander</firstname>
                <surname>Larsson</surname>
                <email>alexl@redhat.com</email>
            </author>
        </authorgroup>
    </refentryinfo>

    <refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>flatpak build-finish</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
    </refmeta>

    <refnamediv>
        <refname>flatpak-build-finish</refname>
        <refpurpose>Finalize a build directory</refpurpose>
    </refnamediv>

    <refsynopsisdiv>
            <cmdsynopsis>
                <command>flatpak build-finish</command>
                <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTION</arg>
                <arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg>
            </cmdsynopsis>
    </refsynopsisdiv>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Description</title>

        <para>
            Finalizes a build directory, to prepare it for exporting.
            <arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg> is the name of the directory.
        </para>
        <para>
            The result of this command is that desktop files, icons, D-Bus service
            files, and AppStream metainfo files from the <filename>files</filename>
            subdirectory are copied to a new <filename>export</filename> subdirectory.
            In the <filename>metadata</filename> file, the command key is set in the
            [Application] group, and the supported keys in the [Environment]
            group are set according to the options.
        </para>
        <para>
             As part of finalization you can also specify permissions that the
             app needs, using the various options specified below. Additionally
             during finalization the permissions from the runtime are inherited
             into the app unless you specify <option>--no-inherit-permissions</option>
        </para>
        <para>
            You should review the exported files and the application metadata
            before creating and distributing an application bundle.
        </para>
        <para>
            It is an error to run build-finish on a directory that has not
            been initialized as a build directory, or has already been finalized.
        </para>
    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Options</title>

        <para>The following options are understood:</para>

        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>-h</option></term>
                <term><option>--help</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Show help options and exit.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--command=COMMAND</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    The command to use. If this option is not specified,
                    the first executable found in <filename>files/bin</filename>
                    is used.
                </para><para>
                    Note that the command is used when the application is run
                    via <command>flatpak run</command>, and does not affect what
                    gets executed when the application is run in other ways,
                    e.g. via the desktop file or D-Bus activation.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--require-version=MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Require this version or later of flatpak to install/update to this build.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--share=SUBSYSTEM</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Share a subsystem with the host session. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    SUBSYSTEM must be one of: network, ipc.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--unshare=SUBSYSTEM</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Don't share a subsystem with the host session. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    SUBSYSTEM must be one of: network, ipc.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--socket=SOCKET</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Expose a well-known socket to the application. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    SOCKET must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus, session-bus,
                    ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent, inherit-wayland-socket.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para><para>
                    The fallback-x11 option makes the X11 socket available only if
                    there is no Wayland socket. This option was introduced in 0.11.3.
                    To support older Flatpak releases, specify both x11 and fallback-x11.
                    The fallback-x11 option takes precedence when both are supported.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--nosocket=SOCKET</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Don't expose a well known socket to the application. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    SOCKET must be one of: x11, wayland, fallback-x11, pulseaudio, system-bus, session-bus,
                    ssh-auth, pcsc, cups, gpg-agent, inherit-wayland-socket.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--device=DEVICE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Expose a device to the application. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    DEVICE must be one of: dri, input, kvm, shm, all.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--nodevice=DEVICE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Don't expose a device to the application. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    DEVICE must be one of: dri, input, kvm, shm, all.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--allow=FEATURE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Allow access to a specific feature. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    FEATURE must be one of: devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus,
                    per-app-dev-shm.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                 </para><para>
                    The <code>devel</code> feature allows the application to
                    access certain syscalls such as <code>ptrace()</code>, and
                <code>perf_event_open()</code>.
                </para><para>
                    The <code>multiarch</code> feature allows the application to
                    execute programs compiled for an ABI other than the one supported
                    natively by the system. For example, for the <code>x86_64</code>
                    architecture, 32-bit <code>x86</code> binaries will be allowed as
                    well.
                </para><para>
                    The <code>bluetooth</code> feature allows the application to
                    use bluetooth (AF_BLUETOOTH) sockets. Note, for bluetooth to
                    fully work you must also have network access.
                </para>
                <para>
                    The <code>canbus</code> feature allows the application to
                    use canbus (AF_CAN) sockets.
                    Note, for this work you must also have network access.
                </para>
                <para>
                    The <code>per-app-dev-shm</code> feature shares a single
                    instance of <filename>/dev/shm</filename> between the
                    application, any unrestricted subsandboxes that it creates,
                    and any other instances of the application that are
                    launched while it is running.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--disallow=FEATURE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Disallow access to a specific feature. This updates
                    the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    FEATURE must be one of: devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus,
                    per-app-dev-shm.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--filesystem=FS</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Allow the application access to a subset of the filesystem.
                    This updates the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    FS can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, xdg-desktop, xdg-documents, xdg-download,
                    xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share, xdg-templates, xdg-videos, xdg-run,
                    xdg-config, xdg-cache, xdg-data, an absolute path, or a homedir-relative
                    path like ~/dir or paths relative to the xdg dirs, like xdg-download/subdir.
                    The optional :ro suffix indicates that the location will be read-only.
                    The optional :create suffix indicates that the location will be read-write and created if it doesn't exist.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                    See the "[Context] filesystems" list in
                    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-metadata</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                    for details of the meanings of these filesystems.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--nofilesystem=FILESYSTEM</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Remove access to the specified subset of the filesystem from
                    the application. This overrides to the Context section from the
                    application metadata.
                    FILESYSTEM can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, xdg-desktop, xdg-documents, xdg-download,
                    xdg-music, xdg-pictures, xdg-public-share, xdg-templates, xdg-videos,
                    an absolute path, or a homedir-relative path like ~/dir.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--add-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Add generic policy option. For example, "--add-policy=subsystem.key=v1 --add-policy=subsystem.key=v2" would map to this metadata:
<programlisting>
[Policy subsystem]
key=v1;v2;
</programlisting>
                </para><para>
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--remove-policy=SUBSYSTEM.KEY=VALUE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Remove generic policy option. This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--env=VAR=VALUE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Set an environment variable in the application.
                    This updates the [Environment] group in the metadata.
                    This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--unset-env=VAR</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Unset an environment variable in the application.
                    This updates the unset-environment entry in the [Context]
                    group of the metadata.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--env-fd=<replaceable>FD</replaceable></option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Read environment variables from the file descriptor
                    <replaceable>FD</replaceable>, and set them as if
                    via <option>--env</option>. This can be used to avoid
                    environment variables and their values becoming visible
                    to other users.
                </para><para>
                    Each environment variable is in the form
                    <replaceable>VAR</replaceable>=<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable>
                    followed by a zero byte. This is the same format used by
                    <literal>env -0</literal> and
                    <filename>/proc/*/environ</filename>.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--own-name=NAME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Allow the application to own the well known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the session bus.
                    If <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> ends with .*, it allows the application to own all matching names.

                    This updates the [Session Bus Policy] group in the metadata.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--talk-name=NAME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Allow the application to talk to the well known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the session bus.
                    If <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> ends with .*, it allows the application to talk to all matching names.
                    This updates the [Session Bus Policy] group in the metadata.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--system-own-name=NAME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Allow the application to own the well known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the system bus.
                    If <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> ends with .*, it allows the application to own all matching names.
                    This updates the [System Bus Policy] group in the metadata.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--system-talk-name=NAME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Allow the application to talk to the well known name <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> on the system bus.
                    If <arg choice="plain">NAME</arg> ends with .*, it allows the application to talk to all matching names.
                    This updates the [System Bus Policy] group in the metadata.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--persist=FILENAME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    If the application doesn't have access to the real homedir, make the (homedir-relative) path
                    <arg choice="plain">FILENAME</arg> a bind mount to the corresponding path in the per-application directory,
                    allowing that location to be used for persistent data.
                    This updates the [Context] group in the metadata.
                    This option can be used multiple times.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--runtime=RUNTIME</option></term>
                <term><option>--sdk=SDK</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                  Change the runtime or sdk used by the app to the specified partial ref. Unspecified parts
                  of the ref are taken from the old values or defaults.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--metadata=GROUP=KEY[=VALUE]</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                  Set a generic key in the metadata file. If value is left out it will
                  be set to "true".
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--extension=NAME=VARIABLE[=VALUE]</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                  Add extension point info.
                  See the documentation for
                  <citerefentry>
                    <refentrytitle>flatpak-metadata</refentrytitle>
                    <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
                  </citerefentry>
                  for the possible values of
                  <replaceable>VARIABLE</replaceable> and <replaceable>VALUE</replaceable>.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--remove-extension=NAME</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                  Remove extension point info.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--extension-priority=VALUE</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                  Set the priority (library override order) of the extension point.
                  Only useful for extensions. 0 is the default, and higher value means higher
                  priority.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--extra-data=NAME:SHA256:DOWNLOAD-SIZE:INSTALL-SIZE:URL</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Adds information about extra data uris to the app. These will be downloaded
                    and verified by the client when the app is installed and placed in the
                    <filename>/app/extra</filename> directory. You can also supply an <filename>/app/bin/apply_extra</filename> script
                    that will be run after the files are downloaded.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--no-exports</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Don't look for exports in the build.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--no-inherit-permissions</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Don't inherit runtime permissions in the app.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>-v</option></term>
                <term><option>--verbose</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Print debug information during command processing.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>

            <varlistentry>
                <term><option>--ostree-verbose</option></term>

                <listitem><para>
                    Print OSTree debug information during command processing.
                </para></listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>Examples</title>

        <para>
            <command>$ flatpak build-finish /build/my-app --socket=x11 --share=ipc</command>
        </para>
<programlisting>
Exporting share/applications/gnome-calculator.desktop
Exporting share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Calculator.SearchProvider.service
More than one executable
Using gcalccmd as command
Please review the exported files and the metadata
</programlisting>

    </refsect1>

    <refsect1>
        <title>See also</title>

        <para>
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-init</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-export</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
        </para>

    </refsect1>

</refentry>