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Harald Sitter 0493219ca5 exports: add host-root
Adapted from: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/6125

In systemd v259, /run/host/root will be a documented location
for bind mounting the host's root filesystem into a
container. Ref: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/38384

host-root is the sledgehammer permission for file browsers
and similar apps that the user might want to give full access
to.

This works same as the existing host keywords by mounting into
/run/host/root. applications will need adjustments to essentially
treat that path as "root".

Since this opens the door to all sorts of malicious software, the
permission should be put under tight review in flatpak
repositories.

Resolves: #5723

Co-authored-by: Ryan Brue <ryanbrue.dev@gmail.com>
2025-09-24 17:19:21 +00:00

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<?xml version='1.0'?> <!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<refentry id="flatpak-build">
<refentryinfo>
<title>flatpak build</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</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>flatpak-build</refname>
<refpurpose>Build in a directory</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>flatpak build</command>
<arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTION</arg>
<arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg>
<arg choice="opt">COMMAND <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">ARG</arg></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
Runs a build command in a directory. <arg choice="plain">DIRECTORY</arg>
must have been initialized with <command>flatpak build-init</command>.
</para>
<para>
The sdk that is specified in the <filename>metadata</filename> file
in the directory is mounted at <filename>/usr</filename> and the
<filename>files</filename> and <filename>var</filename> subdirectories
are mounted at <filename>/app</filename> and <filename>/var</filename>,
respectively. They are writable, and their contents are preserved between
build commands, to allow accumulating build artifacts there.
</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>-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>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-r</option></term>
<term><option>--runtime</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Use the non-devel runtime that is specified in the application metadata instead of the devel runtime.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-p</option></term>
<term><option>--die-with-parent</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Kill the build process and all children when the launching process dies.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--bind-mount=DEST=SOURCE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Add a custom bind mount in the build namespace. Can be specified multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--build-dir=PATH</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Start the build in this directory (default is in the current directory).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--share=SUBSYSTEM</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Share a subsystem with the host session. This overrides
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SUBSYSTEM</arg> 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 overrides
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SUBSYSTEM</arg> 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 overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SOCKET</arg> 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>--nosocket=SOCKET</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Don't expose a well-known socket to the application. This overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">SOCKET</arg> 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 overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">DEVICE</arg> must be one of: dri, input, usb, 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 overrides to
the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">DEVICE</arg> must be one of: dri, input, usb, 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.
<arg choice="plain">FEATURE</arg> must be one of:
devel, multiarch, bluetooth, canbus,
per-app-dev-shm.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para><para>
See <citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-finish</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
for the meaning of the various features.
</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.
<arg choice="plain">FEATURE</arg> 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=FILESYSTEM[:ro|:create]</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Allow the application access to a subset of the filesystem.
This overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
<arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg> can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, host-root, 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.
<arg choice="plain">FILESYSTEM</arg> can be one of: home, host, host-os, host-etc, host-root 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>--with-appdir</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Expose and configure access to the per-app storage directory in <filename>$HOME/.var/app</filename>. This is
not normally useful when building, but helps when testing built apps.
</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 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 overrides the unset-environment entry in the [Context]
group of the metadata, and the [Environment] group.
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 NAME on the session bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application 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 NAME on the session bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application 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 NAME on the system bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application 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 NAME on the system bus.
This overrides to the Context section from the application 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 overrides to the Context section from the application metadata.
This option can be used multiple times.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--sdk-dir=DIR</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Normally if there is a <filename>usr</filename> directory in the build dir, this is used
for the runtime files (this can be created by <option>--writable-sdk</option> or <option>--type=runtime</option> arguments
to build-init). If you specify <option>--sdk-dir</option>, this directory will be used instead.
Use this if you passed <option>--sdk-dir</option> to build-init.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--readonly</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Mount the normally writable destination directories read-only. This can
be useful if you want to run something in the sandbox but guarantee that
it doesn't affect the build results. For example tests.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--metadata=FILE</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Use the specified filename as metadata in the exported app instead of
the default file (called <filename>metadata</filename>). This is useful
if you build multiple things from a single build tree (such as both a
platform and a sdk).
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--log-session-bus</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Log session bus traffic. This can be useful to see what access you need to allow in
your D-Bus policy.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--log-system-bus</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Log system bus traffic. This can be useful to see what access you need to allow in
your D-Bus policy.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Examples</title>
<para>
<command>$ flatpak build /build/my-app rpmbuild my-app.src.rpm</command>
</para>
</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-finish</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>flatpak-build-export</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>