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 build-update-repo 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. This option can be used multiple times.

--include=PATTERN

Don't exclude files matching PATTERN from the commit, even if they match the --export patterns. This option can be used multiple times.

--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.

--no-update-summary

Don't update the summary file after the new commit is added. This means the repository will not be useful for serving over http until build-repo-update has been run. This is useful is you want to do multiple repo operations before finally updating the summary.

--gpg-sign=KEYID

Sign the commit with this GPG key. This option can be used multiple times.

--gpg-homedir=PATH

GPG Homedir to use when looking for keyrings

-r, --runtime

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

-v, --verbose

Print debug information during command processing.

--ostree-verbose

Print OSTree 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

SEE ALSO

ostree(1), flatpak(1), flatpak-build-init(1), flatpak-build(1), flatpak-build-finish(1), flatpak-build-sign(1), flatpak-repo-update(1)