BOMTOOL(1) General Commands Manual BOMTOOL(1) (NAME) bomtool - (Software Bill of Materials) (SYNOPSIS) bomtool [options] module ... (DESCRIPTION) bomtool (SBOM) SPDX 2.0 pkg-config . SBOM . (OPTIONS) : --about () bomtool . . --version bomtool . . --define-variable=varname=value varname value . . --creation-time time time Created SBOM . SPDX ISO 8601 : YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ. SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH . --output file (SBOM) file . (ENVIRONMENT) PKG_CONFIG_DEBUG_SPEW () (stderr) . PKG_CONFIG_IGNORE_CONFLICTS Conflicts () . --ignore-conflicts pkgconf(1) . PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR (:) pc(5) . PKG_CONFIG_PATH ( ) . PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR bomtool PKG_DEFAULT_PATH . PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR . PKG_CONFIG_MAXIMUM_TRAVERSE_DEPTH . PKG_CONFIG_PATH (:) pc(5) . PKG_CONFIG_PRELOADED_FILES (:) pc(5) pkg-config . pc(5) . SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH --creation-time Created SBOM (UNIX timestamp) (reproducible) . (EXIT STATUS) The bomtool utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. (EXAMPLES) SBOM foo: $ bomtool foo SPDXVersion: SPDX-2.2 DataLicense: CC0-1.0 SPDXID: SPDXRef-DOCUMENT DocumentName: SBOM-SPDX-fooC641.2.3 DocumentNamespace: https://spdx.org/spdxdocs/bomtool Creator: Tool: bomtool [...] (SEE ALSO) pc(5), pkgconf(1) (AUTHORS) bomtool pkgconf ( AUTHORS ) . Linux 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 June 24, 2026 Linux 6.12.107+deb13-amd64