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Moritz

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From: Cologne, NRW, Germany

Registered: 2002-10-12

Posts: 166

Manual...

Hey Guys!

I'm looking for a _LARGE_ manual, how to create new packages. Maybe with some examples (one easy an one difficult).
And with some information, what will happen after i finally created a pkg. (uploading to which server? will it be in the official tree?)

Regards,
Moritz

orelien

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From: France

Registered: 2002-12-05

Posts: 220

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Re: Manual...

To date, examples can be found... by looking at PKBGUILD files under /usr/abs
(if not done yet, run "abs" to retrieve them)
See:
aterm (for a very easy one)
tar (for an easy one, with some patching)
kernel, xfree apache, ... (it you want something harder)

Also have a look at the man page...

Most PKGBUILD file have something interesting in it, and if you have difficulties to build a package, your problem may already have been resolved in one of these files...

About submitting, you can already find some tips in the official documentation. You just need to provide the tar.gz, the PKGBUILD and the filelist files, all "tar"ed and compressed together and put it on ftp.archlinux.org/incoming.
After some testing, it should be included in the unofficial tree.

It is true that documentation is not very large, but it may change in the next few days... so, keep in touch

jk

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From: Groningen, The Netherlands

Registered: 2002-10-24

Posts: 66

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Re: Manual...

afaik right now the most extensive document concerning creating packages is the makepkg manpage...