BuildStream on your host¶

Until BuildStream is available in your distro, there are a few hoops to jump through to get started.

If your system cannot provide the base system requirements for BuildStream, then we have some instructions below which can get you started using BuildStream within a Docker container.

System requirements¶

BuildStream requires the following base system requirements:

python3 >= 3.4
ruamel.yaml python library
PyGObject introspection bindings
OSTree >= v2017.8 with introspection data

Note that ruamel.yaml is a pure python library which is normally obtainable via pip, however there seems to be some problems with installing this package so we recommend installing it with your package manager first.

For the purpose of installing BuildStream while there are no distro packages, you will additionally need:

pip for python3 (only required for setup)
Python 3 development libraries and headers
git (to checkout buildstream)

Here are some examples of how to prepare the base requirements on some distros.

Arch¶

Install the dependencies with:

sudo pacman -S python python-pip python-gobject git

ostree bubblewrap python-ruamel-yaml

Debian Stretch¶

With stretch, you first need to ensure that you have the backports repository setup as described here

By adding the following line to your sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

And then running:

sudo apt-get update

At this point you should be able to get the system requirements with:

sudo apt-get install \
    python3-dev python3-pip git python3-gi \
    python3-ruamel.yaml bubblewrap
sudo apt-get install -t stretch-backports \
    gir1.2-ostree-1.0 ostree

Debian Buster or Sid¶

For debian unstable or testing, only the following line should be enough to get the base system requirements installed:

sudo apt-get install \
    python3-dev python3-pip git \
    python3-gi gir1.2-ostree-1.0 ostree \
    bubblewrap python3-ruamel.yaml

Fedora¶

For recent fedora systems, the following line should get you the system requirements you need:

dnf install -y bubblewrap fuse git python3-gobject \
               python3-psutil ostree

User installation with pip¶

Once you have the base system dependencies, you can clone the buildstream git repository and install it as a regular user:

git clone https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream.git
cd buildstream
pip3 install --user .

This will install buildstream and it’s pure python dependencies directly into your user’s homedir in ~/.local

Adjust PATH¶

Since BuildStream is now installed under your local user’s install directories, you need to ensure that PATH is adjusted.

A regular way to do this is to add the following line to the end of your ~/.bashrc:

export PATH=${PATH}:~/.local/bin

Bash Completions¶

Bash completions are supported by sourcing the buildstream/data/bst script found in the BuildStream repository. On many systems this script can be installed into a completions directory but when installing BuildStream without a package manager this is not an option.

To enable completions for an installation of BuildStream you installed yourself from git, just append the script verbatim to your ~/.bash_completion:

# BuildStream bash completion scriptlet.
#
# On systems which use the bash-completion module for
# completion discovery with bash, this can be installed at:
#
#   pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion
#
# If BuildStream is not installed system wide, you can
# simply source this script to enable completions or append
# this script to your ~/.bash_completion file.
#
_bst_completion() {
    local IFS=$'
'
    COMPREPLY=( $( env COMP_WORDS="${COMP_WORDS[*]}" \
                   COMP_CWORD=$COMP_CWORD \
                   _BST_COMPLETION=complete $1 ) )
    return 0
}

complete -F _bst_completion -o nospace bst;

Upgrading with pip¶

To upgrade a previously install BuildStream, you will need to pull the latest changes and reinstall as such:

pip3 uninstall buildstream
cd buildstream
git pull --rebase
pip3 install --user .