What is this?

Legitimate question! Well, currently the scope of this repo is pretty limited. The reason for its existence is mainly the suckless family of software. The suckless philosophy is to keep thing simple and minimal. So, to customize suckless tools and software, users are required to edit config.h and recompile the program. That's fine, in most cases because one could symlink config.h from their dotfiles into wherever the suckless utility's source is located. That would allow someone to easily keep a consistent setup across many computers.

The issue I'm personally facing is with patches. Patches are used to extend a given suckless utility's functionality, and they're really useful! Though, now you're not just modifying config.h, you're also editing say st.c or dwm.c, and I'm not a huge fan of maintaining source code in my dotfiles, where configurations should be stored. So, I created a package! I forked the utilities that I want from suckless and applied my patches and configs there.

This is where this repo comes in. This repo will have a simple structure of folders for each package, each containing a PKGBUILD that can be used to build my versions of the suckless programs.

Dockerfile

Because I'm lazy (and love some automation), I also added a CI/CD pipeline to my forks, so every time I push an update to my configurations, the packages are rebuilt and re-uploaded to my package repository. For this CI/CD thing to work though, I need an image to build the packages inside of. The Dockerfile is what I use to build my packages on the CI server.

Full disclosure: I didn't come up with the Dockerfile, I found it here.

I'm hooked! How does it work?

This is the beautiful part, because it's really simple! If you were to want to install my packages, for some random reason, you would just have to follow these simple steps!

1. Add my server to your /etc/pacman.conf

[nmarier-aur]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://aur.nmarier.com/packages/$arch

2. Run the following command (to in stall st, for example)

$ sudo pacman -Sy st

3. Profit??

Seriously, that's it! The most convenient thing about this is that if I make a tweak to my configuration, I can push the change, and just run a quick pacman -Syu to get the changes on any of my other machines.