pkgbake

PKGBUILD builder for Arch linux User repository

Written in Python 3. Based on PKGBUILD templates provided by pacman.

Currently supports generating PKGBUILDs for Ruby Gems, NodeJS and Python packages.

NOTE: This script does not manage dependecies in any sane way so you will stil have to manually do that, especially, if you intend to submit your PKGBUILDs to the AUR. Not all packages in the AUR/Arch repos follow naming conventions python-pkgname or ruby-pkgname and so on... Script assumes that they do -- package names are printed all lowercase and underscores are replaced with dashes. Another thing is that you must check and test the package() function -- it might need some tuning for specific packages (duh! it's based on a template). This script is not meant to produce the final PKGBUILD result -- it's just a quicker way to generate them. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

NEWS

• Added preliminary support for creating PKGBUILDs for remote .deb packages.

USAGE

USAGE:
 * ./pkgbake python package_name
 * ./pkgbake nodejs package_name
 * ./pkgbake ruby package_name
 * ./pkgbake debian url_to_deb_file

DEPENDENCIES

This script uses the Jinja2 template engine to generate PKGBUILD scripts. You can install it from the Arch linux repos:

sudo pacman -Sy python-jinja

EXAMPLES

For example, we want to generate a PKGBUILD script for the Rails Ruby Gem

./pkgbake ruby rails

Produces this PKGBUILD script

# Generated on: Fri Apr  8 23:41:06 2016
# Maintainer: Your Name <your email at example dot com>

_gemname=rails
pkgname=ruby-${_gemname//_/-}
pkgver=4.2.6
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web framework optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It encourages beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration."
arch=(any)
url="http://www.rubyonrails.org"
license=('MIT' )
depends=('ruby'
        'ruby-actionmailer'
        'ruby-actionpack'
        'ruby-actionview'
        'ruby-activejob'
        'ruby-activemodel'
        'ruby-activerecord'
        'ruby-activesupport'
        'ruby-bundler'
        'ruby-railties'
        'ruby-sprockets-rails')
makedepends=('rubygems')
source=(http://gems.rubyforge.org/gems/$_gemname-$pkgver.gem)
noextract=($_gemname-$pkgver.gem)
sha256sums=('a199258c0d2bae09993a6932c49df254fd66428899d1823b8c5285de02e5bc33')

package() {
  cd "$srcdir"
  # _gemdir is defined inside package() because if ruby[gems] is not installed on
  # the system, makepkg will exit with an error when sourcing the PKGBUILD.
  local _gemdir="$(ruby -rubygems -e'puts Gem.default_dir')"

  gem install --no-user-install --ignore-dependencies -i "$pkgdir$_gemdir" -n "$pkgdir/usr/bin" \
    "$_gemname-$pkgver.gem"
}

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