pkgbuild-helper

Helpful guide on how to generate PKGBUILD for Arch Linux distributions

Make sure to read:

Category:Package development, Creating packages, Arch package guidelines, AUR submission guidelines

For license:

Arch package guidelines#licenses

Generate the .SRCINFO

makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO

Checking package sanity

namcap PKGBUILD

namcap pkgname.pkg.tar.zst

Options functions

options=(
  # Default enabled options (use ! to disable)
  'strip'      # Strip symbols from binaries
  'docs'       # Keep documentation files
  'emptydirs'  # Keep empty directories
  'zipman'     # Compress manual pages
  'ccache'     # Use ccache during build
  'distcc'     # Use distcc during build
  'buildflags' # Use default CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS
  'makeflags'  # Use default MAKEFLAGS

  # Default disabled options (remove ! to enable)
  '!debug'      # Add debugging flags
  '!libtool'    # Leave libtool (.la) files
  '!staticlibs' # Leave static library (.a) files
  '!lto'        # Enable link-time optimization
  '!upx'        # Compress executables with UPX
)

First run git needs to set the global username information:

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global init.defaultBranch main # (trunk, development)

To generate new md5sums run the command updpkgsums:

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib

How to upload to AUR repository

1. Create an account
2. Add your ssh public key
3. git -c init.defaultbranch=master clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase.git
4. cd package-git
5. cp PKGBUILD .SRCINFO (from your package)
6. git add PKGBUILD .SRCINFO
7. git commit -m "Initial version"
8. git push