First font package (spleen) - Please review

lquidfire · 2023-01-19 09:25:36

Hi all,

First time packaging a font, and I am not sure if I am doing it correctly. Thanks to Andreas I already improved the PKGBUILD after I had adopted the package, and now I would like to just make sure all is correct.

Sources I already visited:

Thank you for your feedback.

The PKGBUILD is as follows:

(...snipped contributors...)

_fontname=spleen

pkgname=spleen-font
pkgver=1.9.1
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="Monospaced bitmap fonts"
arch=('any')
license=('BSD')
url="https://www.cambus.net/spleen-monospaced-bitmap-fonts/"
conflicts=('bdf-spleen')
source=(
  "https://github.com/fcambus/spleen/releases/download/${pkgver}/spleen-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
)
sha256sums=(
  '7ef59c4e02a45e9dded6bca18b539cdf0f0eb49e6cbcb257858da56ac5daa622'
)

package() {
  cd "${srcdir}/${_fontname}-${pkgver}"

  # Install font to its own dir.
  # (c.f.: https://archlinux.org/todo/fix-ttf-font-default-font-setup/)
  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fonts/${_fontname}"
  for font_file in spleen-*.otb; do install -Dm644 "${font_file}" \
    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fonts/${_fontname}/${font_file}"; done
  for font_file in spleen-*.otf; do install -Dm644 "${font_file}" \
    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fonts/${_fontname}/${font_file}"; done
  for font_file in spleen-*.psfu; do install -Dm644 "${font_file}" \
    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/kbd/consolefonts/${font_file}"; done
  install -Dm644 fonts.alias "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fonts/${_fontname}/fonts.alias"

  install -Dm644 AUTHORS "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/AUTHORS"
  install -Dm644 README.md "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.md"
  install -Dm644 ChangeLog "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/ChangeLog"
  install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
}

My questions:

Should I create one AUR PKGBUILD to provide the *.otb, *.otf, and *.pfsu fonts? I see in the official repos, as well as in the AUR, that some fonts are split into separate packages (e.g. ttf, otf, etc.), and some are not. With a special mention to the Symbola font, which appears to me to be one package to install (one PKGBUILD), but then you get to separate packages installed on your system (_otf and _ttf), which you can uninstall as you wish (but not install as you wish). Which option is the best?
Is the fonts.alias file installed in the correct directory this way?
Should I use a Clean chroot when building packages? I read Building in a clean chroot, but I am not quite sure if this is what I need?
What would be a good way to get notified of upstream updates and new releases so that I know when I need to update the PKGBUILD (this is a more general questions, as I maintain a few packages)?
Do you have any other comments and improvements please?

Thank you for your time and feedback!

Last edited by lquidfire (2023-01-19 09:27:31)

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#1 2023-01-19 09:25:36

First font package (spleen) - Please review

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