Builds native packages for any Linux distribution the source code repositories from Arch Linux and AUR
If you compile software from source and use a Linux distribution other than Arch, you NEED this. Here's how it works
Since Architect uses development packages on your system, the packages it compiles are 100% compatible with your system There is currently no dependency resolution (build-time or install time), so you will have to resolve dependencies on your own until this gets worked out
###Requirements:
You will need to have the following packages installed on your system already:
- curl
- fakeroot
- bsdtar
- ruby
- gems
- fpm Follow the instructions here to install FPM via Ruby gems: https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
You will also need to install the #architect-arch-tools# package that corresponds to your distribution, which you will find in the packages directory (deb, rpm, tgz, and xzm are included)
Note: this package is just a combo package of the following tools from Arch, re-packaged straight from the Arch Linux binaries. It's mostly shell scripts, and they seem to work on most systems, but if you want to re-compile them natively, it shouldn't be too hard:
- abs
- pacman
- pacman-mirrorlist
- expac
- archlinux-keyring
- aur.sh
These instructions will also be updated soon, but here's a quickie:
To build and package, for example, qtfm-svn from AUR:
architect-aur qtfm-svn
The rest is self explanitory. For now you have to set the version manually, but you'll be prompted.
Here's the old instructions for historical reference (the parts about setting up pacman on a non-Arch system still apply)
Will be updated soon!
*Do all this as normal user!!! *
##Setup
1: Clone this repository, and activate all of the modules (you can skip the fakeroot module if you already have it)
2: Uncomment a mirror in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
3: Sync entire ABS tree
$ abs
This will sync the entire tree of source PKGBUILDs from Arch Linux into /var/abs/core, /var/abs/extra, and /var/abs/community (It only takes a few seconds). Multib will fail to download for some reason and you'll see an error, but it's ok, everything else should be there
If you don't want the build scripts for everything, you can get just the ones you want by doing "abs repository/package", like this:
$ abs core/nano
This will download the PKGBUILD into /var/abs/core/nano
Now for the fun part:
##Choosing what package to build
First, go to the Arch Linux website and choose what package you want to build, from
Arch proper https://www.archlinux.org/packages or
AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/
To build the nano text editor from ABS, first change to the directory where the PKGBUILD is:
$ cd /var/abs/core/nano
Change to that directory, then still as a normal user, do this:
$ makepkg -d
Note: The -d flag is important here, it tells Arch's package manager not to try to resolve dependencies before downloading the source and building the package (which it will never find, because your system is full of Porteus modules, even if you have all the dependencies already)
This will automatically start downloading the source code, unpack it, compile it, patch it (if the PKGBUILD contains any patches) and package it up into an Arch package! (assuming there are no errors, which are usually only due to a missing library/dependency found during the congigure part.) If there are missing libraries or build dependencies, you will usually be toldwhat they are. You will need to install those dependencies from Porteus Package Manager or build them using this method and install them first before continuing.
##Creating a Porteus module Once abs reports that it has build your package successfully, the next step is to make a Porteus module, since we can't use the .tar.xz Arch package it made. I know there's got to be an easy way to have makepkg make an xzm package instead, but I haven't figured it out yet (anybody know how? I suspect it might involve a modified dir2xzm?), so there's a few extra small steps:
1: Change to the newly created directory "pkg" 2: Make a porteus module using "dir2zm pkgname pkgname-pkgversion.xzm" Example:
$ cd pkg
$ dir2xzm nano nano-2.2.6-2-x86_64.pkg.xzm
This will prompt for root password, and create a Porteus module in the current directory.
I like to just copy the filename from the generated Arch package and use this as the name for the Porteus module, since it has the exact version in it. I also personally like to leave the .pkg on there before the .xzm so that I always know at a glance which modules are from Arch, but name it whatever you like. Note that you can also do 'fakeroot dir2xzm nano nano-2.2.6-2-x86_64.pkg.xzm' and you will not be prompted for a root password.
That's it! Activate your new package or put it in your modules directory
##Building from AUR If the package is in AUR, it's even easier! =D
aur.sh -d nano-syntax-highlighting-git
(note the -d flag as before) This will download create a folder called nano-syntax-highlighting-git in your current directory, download the PKGBUILD into it, and begin the process above, just as if you had run 'makepkg -d'. When the package is finished compiling, use the above steps to create a Porteus module
Note: Occasionally, the PKGBUILD contains patches or commands that are not compatible with Porteus/Slackware, but can be fixed very easily. If the package fails to build for some weird reason, look at the PKGBUILD to see if you notice anything. For instance, Arch packages that use QT and qmake tend to use the command 'qmake-qt4' instead of 'qmake', as Porteus/Slackware uses currently. In this case, you can modify the PKGBUILD, or you can just do this
ln -s /usr/bin/qmake /usr/bin/qmake-qt4
Also, if you modify the PKGBUILD and then get an error that something failed the integrity check, you will need to run makepkg like this:
makepkg -d --skipinteg
Finally, you MUST run makepkg as a normal user! For safety, but moreso because Slackware also has a program called makepkg, which is used to build Slackware packages, but it lives in /sbin/makepkg (outside normal user's default path) whereas Arch's makepkg lives in /usr/bin. Basically, if you run it as root, it won't work. If you happen to have /sbin in your normal user's path, you will need to run this as /usr/bin/makepkg
Right now I just have the xzm modules up here, but this will soon become a real source repository. All Arch-related modules are directly converted from official Arch 64-bit packages and were not modified by me at all.
aur.sh was taken from here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Aur.sh and made into an xzm module
Please feel free to contribute ideas and issues, submit pull requests, or correct me on any of my terminology ;)