.TH makepkg 8 "January 30, 2006" "makepkg #VERSION#" "" .SH NAME makepkg \- package build utility .SH SYNOPSIS \fBmakepkg [options]\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBmakepkg\fP will build packages for you. All it needs is a build-capable linux platform, wget, and some build scripts. The advantage to a script-based build is that you only really do the work once. Once you have the build script for a package, you just need to run makepkg and it will do the rest: download and validate source files, check dependencies, configure the buildtime settings, build the package, install the package into a temporary root, make customizations, generate meta-info, and package the whole thing up for \fBpacman\fP to use. \fBmakeworld\fP can be used to rebuild an entire package group or the entire build tree. See \fBmakeworld --help\fP for syntax. .SH BUILD PROCESS (or How To Build Your Own Packages) Start in an isolated directory (ie, it's not used for anything other than building this package). The build script should be called PKGBUILD and it should bear resemblance to the example below. \fBNOTE:\fP If you have a local copy of the Arch Build System (ABS) tree on your computer, you can copy the PKGBUILD.proto file to your new package build directory and edit it from there. To acquire/sync the ABS tree, use the \fBabs\fP script included with pacman/makepkg. .TP .TP .SH PKGBUILD Example: .RS .nf pkgname=modutils pkgver=2.4.25 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Utilities for inserting and removing modules from the linux kernel" url="http://www.kernel.org" backup=(etc/modules.conf) makedepends=('bash' 'mawk') depends=('glibc' 'zlib') source=(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/$pkgname/v2.4/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2 \\ modules.conf) md5sums=('2c0cca3ef6330a187c6ef4fe41ecaa4d' \\ '35175bee593a7cc7d6205584a94d8625') build() { cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-insmod-static make || return 1 make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install mv $startdir/pkg/usr/sbin $startdir/pkg mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc cp ../modules.conf $startdir/pkg/etc } .fi .RE As you can see, the setup is fairly simple. The first three lines define the package name and version info. They also define the final package name which will be of the form \fI$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz\fP. The fourth line provides a brief description of the package. These four lines should be present in every PKGBUILD script. The line with \fIbackup=\fP specifies files that should be treated specially when removing or upgrading packages. See \fBHANDLING CONFIG FILES\fP in the \fIpacman\fP manpage for more information on this. Lines 7 and 8 list the dependencies for this package. The \fIdepends\fP array specifies the run-time dependencies and \fImakedepends\fP specifies the build-time dependencies. In order to run the package, \fIdepends\fP must be satisfied. To build the package, \fBall\fP dependencies must be satisifed first. makepkg will check this before attempting to build the package. The \fIsource\fP array tells makepkg which files to download/extract before compiling begins. The \fImd5sums\fP array provides md5sums for each of these files. These are used to validate the integrity of the source files. Once your PKGBUILD is created, you can run \fImakepkg\fP from the build directory. makepkg will then check dependencies and look for the source files required to build. If some are missing it will attempt to download them, provided there is a fully-qualified URL in the \fIsource\fP array. The sources are then extracted into a directory called ./src and the \fIbuild\fP function is called. This is where all package configuration, building, and installing should be done. Any customization will likely take place here. After a package is built, the \fIbuild\fP function must install the package files into a special package root, which can be referenced by \fB$startdir/pkg\fP in the \fIbuild\fP function. The typical way to do this is one of the following: .RS .nf make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install or make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install .fi .RE Notice that the "/usr" portion should be present with "prefix", but not "DESTDIR". "DESTDIR" is the favorable option to use, but not all Makefiles support it. Use "prefix" only when "DESTDIR" is unavailable. Once the package is successfully installed into the package root, \fImakepkg\fP will remove some directories (as per Arch Linux package guidelines; if you use this elsewhere, feel free to change it) like /usr/doc and /usr/info. It will then strip debugging info from libraries and binaries and generate a meta-info file. Finally, it will compress everything into a .pkg.tar.gz file and leave it in the directory you ran \fBmakepkg\fP from. At this point you should have a package file in the current directory, named something like name-version-release.pkg.tar.gz. Done! .SH Install/Upgrade/Remove Scripting Pacman has the ability to store and execute a package-specific script when it installs, removes, or upgrades a package. This allows a package to "configure itself" after installation and do the opposite right before it is removed. The exact time the script is run varies with each operation: .TP .B pre_install script is run right before files are extracted. .TP .B post_install script is run right after files are extracted. .TP .B pre_upgrade script is run right before files are extracted. .TP .B post_upgrade script is run after files are extracted. .TP .B pre_remove script is run right before files are removed. .TP .B post_remove script is run right after files are removed. .RE To use this feature, just create a file (eg, pkgname.install) and put it in the same directory as the PKGBUILD script. Then use the \fIinstall\fP directive: .RS .nf install=pkgname.install .fi .RE The install script does not need to be specified in the \fIsource\fP array. .TP .TP .SH Install scripts must follow this format: .RS .nf # arg 1: the new package version pre_install() { # # do pre-install stuff here # /bin/true } # arg 1: the new package version post_install() { # # do post-install stuff here # /bin/true } # arg 1: the new package version # arg 2: the old package version pre_upgrade() { # # do pre-upgrade stuff here # /bin/true } # arg 1: the new package version # arg 2: the old package version post_upgrade() { # # do post-upgrade stuff here # /bin/true } # arg 1: the old package version pre_remove() { # # do pre-remove stuff here # /bin/true } # arg 1: the old package version post_remove() { # # do post-remove stuff here # /bin/true } op=$1 shift $op $* .fi .RE This template is also available in your ABS tree (/var/abs/install.proto). .SH PKGBUILD Directives .TP .B pkgname The name of the package. This has be a unix-friendly name as it will be used in the package filename. .TP .B pkgver This is the version of the software as released from the author (eg, 2.7.1). .TP .B pkgrel This is the release number specific to Arch Linux packages. .TP .B pkgdesc This should be a brief description of the package and its functionality. .TP .B options This array allows you to override some of makepkg's default behaviour when building packages. To set an option, just include the option name in the \fBoptions\fP array. .TP .RS \fIAvailable Options:\fP .RS .TP .B FORCE force the package to be upgraded by \fB--sysupgrade\fP, even if its an older version. .TP .B KEEPDOCS do not remove /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/info directories. .TP .B NOSTRIP do not strip debugging symbols from binaries and libraries. .RE .RE .TP .B url This field contains an optional URL that is associated with the piece of software being packaged. This is typically the project's website. .TP .B license This field specifies the license(s) that apply to the package. Commonly-used licenses are typically found in \fI/usr/share/licenses/common\fP. If you see the package's license there, simply reference it in the license field (eg, \fBlicense="GPL"\fP). If the package provides a license not found in \fI/usr/share/licenses/common\fP, then you should include the license in the package itself and set \fBlicense="custom"\fP or \fBlicense="custom:LicenseName"\fP. The license itself should be placed in a directory called \fI$startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname\fP. .TP .RE If multiple licenses are applied, use the array form: \fBlicenses=('GPL' 'FDL')\fP .TP .B install Specifies a special install script that is to be included in the package. This file should reside in the same directory as the PKGBUILD, and will be copied into the package by makepkg. It does not need to be included in the \fIsource\fP array. (eg, install=modutils.install) .TP .B source \fI(array)\fP The \fIsource\fP line is an array of source files required to build the package. Source files must reside in the same directory as the PKGBUILD file, unless they have a fully-qualified URL. Then if the source file does not already exist in /var/cache/pacman/src, the file is downloaded by wget. .TP .B md5sums \fI(array)\fP If this field is present, it should contain an MD5 hash for every source file specified in the \fIsource\fP array (in the same order). makepkg will use this to verify source file integrity during subsequent builds. To easily generate md5sums, first build using the PKGBUILD then run \fBmakepkg -g >>PKGBUILD\fP. Then you can edit the PKGBUILD and move the \fImd5sums\fP line from the bottom to an appropriate location. .TP .B groups \fI(array)\fP This is an array of symbolic names that represent groups of packages, allowing you to install multiple packages by requesting a single target. For example, one could install all KDE packages by installing the 'kde' group. .TP .B backup \fI(array)\fP A space-delimited array of filenames (without a preceding slash). The \fIbackup\fP line will be propagated to the package meta-info file for pacman. This will designate all files listed there to be backed up if this package is ever removed from a system. See \fBHANDLING CONFIG FILES\fP in the \fIpacman\fP manpage for more information. .TP .B depends \fI(array)\fP An array of packages that this package depends on to build and run. Packages in this list should be surrounded with single quotes and contain at least the package name. They can also include a version requirement of the form \fBname<>version\fP, where <> is one of these three comparisons: \fB>=\fP (greater than equal to), \fB<=\fP (less than or equal to), or \fB=\fP (equal to). See the PKGBUILD example above for an example of the \fIdepends\fP directive. .TP .B makedepends \fI(array)\fP An array of packages that this package depends on to build (ie, not required to run). Packages in this list should follow the same format as \fIdepends\fP. .TP .B conflicts \fI(array)\fP An array of packages that will conflict with this package (ie, they cannot both be installed at the same time). This directive follows the same format as \fIdepends\fP except you cannot specify versions here, only package names. .TP .B provides \fI(array)\fP An array of "virtual provisions" that this package provides. This allows a package to provide dependency names other than it's own package name. For example, the kernel-scsi and kernel-ide packages can each provide 'kernel' which allows packages to simply depend on 'kernel' rather than "kernel-scsi OR kernel-ide OR ..." .TP .B replaces \fI(array)\fP This is an array of packages that this package should replace, and can be used to handle renamed/combined packages. For example, if the kernel package gets renamed to kernel-ide, then subsequent 'pacman -Syu' calls will not pick up the upgrade, due to the differing package names. \fIreplaces\fP handles this. .SH MAKEPKG OPTIONS .TP .B "\-b, \-\-builddeps" Build missing dependencies from source. When makepkg finds missing build-time or run-time dependencies, it will look for the dependencies' PKGBUILD files under $ABSROOT (set in your /etc/makepkg.conf). If it finds them it will run another copy of makepkg to build and install the missing dependencies. The child makepkg calls will be made with the \fB-b\fP and \fB-i\fP options. .TP .B "\-B, \-\-noccache" Do not use ccache during build. .TP .B "\-c, \-\-clean" Clean up leftover work files/directories after a successful build. .TP .B "\-C, \-\-cleancache" Removes all source files from the cache directory to free up diskspace. .TP .B "\-d, \-\-nodeps" Do not perform any dependency checks. This will let you override/ignore any dependencies required. There's a good chance this option will break the build process if all of the dependencies aren't installed. .TP .B "\-e, \-\-noextract" Do not extract source files. Instead, use whatever already exists in the src/ directory. This is handy if you want to go into src and manually patch/tweak code, then make a package out of the result. .TP .B "\-f, \-\-force" \fBmakepkg\fP will not build a package if a \fIpkgname-pkgver-pkgrel.pkg.tar.gz\fP file already exists in the build directory. You can override this behaviour with the \fB--force\fP switch. .TP .B "\-g, \-\-genmd5" Download all source files (if required) and use \fImd5sum\fP to generate md5 hashes for each of them. You can then redirect the output into your PKGBUILD for source validation (makepkg -g >>PKGBUILD). .TP .B "\-h, \-\-help" Output syntax and commandline options. .TP .B "\-i, \-\-install" Install/Upgrade the package after a successful build. .TP .B "\-j <jobs>" Sets MAKEFLAGS="-j<jobs>" before building the package. This is useful for overriding the MAKEFLAGS setting in /etc/makepkg.conf. .TP .B "\-m, \-\-nocolor" Disable color in output messages .TP .B "\-n, \-\-nostrip" Do not strip binaries and libraries. .TP .B "\-o, \-\-nobuild" Download and extract files only, do not build. .TP .B "\-p <buildscript>" Read the package script \fI<buildscript>\fP instead of the default (\fIPKGBUILD\fP). .TP .B "\-r, \-\-rmdeps" Upon successful build, remove any dependencies installed by makepkg/pacman during dependency auto-resolution (using \fB-b\fP or \fB-s\fP). .TP .B "\-s, \-\-syncdeps" Install missing dependencies using pacman. When makepkg finds missing build-time or run-time dependencies, it will run pacman to try and resolve them. If successful, pacman will download the missing packages from a package repository and install them for you. .TP .B "\-S, \-\-sudosync" Install missing dependencies using pacman and sudo. This is the same as \fB-s\fP except that makepkg will call pacman with sudo. This means you don't have to build as root to use dependency auto-resolution. .TP .B "\-w <destdir>" Write the resulting package file to the directory \fI<destdir>\fP instead of the current working directory. .TP .B "\-\-noconfirm" When calling pacman to resolve dependencies or conflicts, makepkg can pass the \fI--noconfirm\fP option to it so it does not wait for any user input before proceeding with operations. .TP .B "\-\-noprogressbar" When calling pacman, makepkg can pass the \fI--noprogressbar\fP option to it. This is useful if one is directing makepkg's output to a non-terminal (ie, a file). .SH CONFIGURATION Configuration options are stored in \fI/etc/makepkg.conf\fP. This file is parsed as a bash script, so you can export any special compiler flags you wish to use. This is helpful for building for different architectures, or with different optimizations. \fBNOTE:\fP This does not guarantee that all package Makefiles will use your exported variables. Some of them are flaky... .SH SEE ALSO \fBpacman\fP is the package manager that uses packages built by makepkg. See the Arch Linux Documentation for package-building guidelines if you wish to contribute packages to the Arch Linux project. .SH AUTHOR .nf Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org> .fi