Firejail builds under Debian/Devuan Stable

[edbarx]

For those interested in using firejail I found that it readily builds from source using dpkg-buildpackage. Download the sources, make sure there is a debian subdirectory, and then use dpkg-buildpackage in the source's root directory.

I am running iceweasel from within firejail after having built it from source.

To get an idea of what you need I am posting the terminal's output for the building procedure:

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edbarx@edbarx-pc:~$ mkdir firejail
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~$ cd firejail
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/firejail$ ls
firejail-0.9.38                  firejail_0.9.38-1.dsc
firejail_0.9.38-1.debian.tar.xz  firejail_0.9.38.orig.tar.bz2
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/firejail$ cd firejail-0.3.38
bash: cd: firejail-0.3.38: No such file or directory
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/firejail$ cd firejail-0.9.38
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/firejail/firejail-0.9.38$ dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: source package firejail
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.9.38-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution unstable
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-h.de>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build firejail-0.9.38
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean --parallel --with autotools-dev
   dh_testdir -O--parallel
   dh_auto_clean -O--parallel
   dh_autotools-dev_restoreconfig -O--parallel
   dh_clean -O--parallel
 dpkg-source -b firejail-0.9.38
dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-source: info: building firejail using existing ./firejail_0.9.38.orig.tar.bz2
dpkg-source: info: building firejail in firejail_0.9.38-1.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: building firejail in firejail_0.9.38-1.dsc
 debian/rules build
dh build --parallel --with autotools-dev
   dh_testdir -O--parallel
   dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig -O--parallel
   dh_auto_configure -O--parallel
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-maintainer-mode, --disable-dependency-tracking

[...]

   dh_lintian -O--parallel
   dh_perl -O--parallel
   dh_link -O--parallel
   dh_compress -O--parallel
   debian/rules override_dh_fixperms
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/edbarx/firejail/firejail-0.9.38'
dh_fixperms
chmod 4755 debian/firejail/usr/bin/firejail
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/edbarx/firejail/firejail-0.9.38'
   dh_strip -O--parallel
   dh_makeshlibs -O--parallel
   dh_shlibdeps -O--parallel
   dh_installdeb -O--parallel
   dh_gencontrol -O--parallel
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package firejail: unused substitution variable ${misc:Pre-Depends}
   dh_md5sums -O--parallel
   dh_builddeb -O--parallel
dpkg-deb: building package `firejail' in `../firejail_0.9.38-1_amd64.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges  >../firejail_0.9.38-1_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: including full source code in upload
 dpkg-source --after-build firejail-0.9.38
dpkg-buildpackage: full upload (original source is included)
 signfile firejail_0.9.38-1.dsc
gpg: skipped "Reiner Herrmann <reiner@reiner-h.de>": No secret key
gpg: dpkg-sign.PJie0ezV/firejail_0.9.38-1.dsc: clearsign failed: No secret key

dpkg-buildpackage: error: failed to sign .dsc and .changes file
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/firejail/firejail-0.9.38$ cd ..
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/firejail$ ls
firejail-0.9.38                  firejail_0.9.38-1.debian.tar.xz
firejail_0.9.38-1_amd64.changes  firejail_0.9.38-1.dsc
firejail_0.9.38-1_amd64.deb      firejail_0.9.38.orig.tar.bz2
edbarx@edbarx-pc:~/firejail$ su
Password: 
root@edbarx-pc:/home/edbarx/firejail# dpkg -i firejail_0.9.38-1_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package firejail.
(Reading database ... 112826 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack firejail_0.9.38-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking firejail (0.9.38-1) ...
Setting up firejail (0.9.38-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...

[woteb]

There are also deb-files (32 and 64 bits) available.

[stevepusser]

The homepage says it's a standard C program, nothing fancy about it, just that it also needs a 3.X or better kernel. I bet it would build on Squeeze or even Lenny, but you'd need that newer kernel.

It seems to me like a prime candidate for jessie-backports.