MAKEPKG-TEMPLATE(1) Pacman Manual MAKEPKG-TEMPLATE(1)NAMEmakepkg-template - package build templating utility
SYNOPSISmakepkg-template [options]
DESCRIPTIONmakepkg-template is a script to ease the work of maintaining multiple
similar PKGBUILDs. It allows you to move most of the code from the
PKGBUILD into a template file and uses markers to allow in-place
updating of existing PKGBUILDs if the template has been changed.
Template files can contain any code allowed in a PKGBUILD. You can
think of them like external files included with "." or "source", but
they will be inlined into the PKGBUILD by makepkg-template so you do
not depend on the template file when building the package.
Markers are bash comments in the form of:
# template start; key=value; key2=value2; ...
and
# template end;
Currently used keys are: name (mandatory) and version. Template names
are limited to alphanumerics, "@", "+", ".", "-", and "_". Versions are
limited to numbers and ".".
For initial creation there is a one line short cut which does not need
an end marker:
# template input; key=value;
Using this short-cut will result in makepkg-template replacing it with
start and end markers and the template code on the first run.
Template files should be stored in one directory and filenames should
be "$template_name-$version.template" with a symlink
"$template_name.template" pointing to the most recent template. If the
version is not set in the marker, makepkg-template will automatically
use the most recent version of the template, otherwise the specified
version will be used. This allows for easier verification of untrusted
PKGBUILDs if the template is trusted. You verify the non-template code
and then use a command similar to this:
diff -u <(makepkg-template -o -) PKGBUILD
Template files may also contain markers leading to nested templates in
the resulting PKGBUILD. If you use markers in a template, please set
the version you used/tested with in the start/input marker so other
people can properly recreate from templates.
OPTIONS-p, --input <build script>
Read the package script build script instead of the default.
-o, --output <build script>
Write the updated file to build script instead of overwriting the
input file.
-n, --newest
Always use the newest available template file.
--template-dir <dir>
Change the dir where we are looking for template files.
EXAMPLE PKGBUILD
pkgname=perl-config-simple
pkgver=4.58
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="simple configuration file class"
arch=('any')
license=('PerlArtistic' 'GPL')
depends=('perl')
source=("http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHERZODR/Config-Simple-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
md5sums=('f014aec54f0a1e2e880d317180fce502')
_distname="Config-Simple"
# template start; name=perl-module; version=1.0;
_distdir="${_distname}-${pkgver}"
url="https://metacpan.org/release/${_distname}"
options+=('!emptydirs')
build() {
cd "$srcdir/$_distdir"
perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
make
}
check() {
cd "$srcdir/$_distdir"
make test
}
package() {
cd "$srcdir/$_distdir"
make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
}
# template end;
SEE ALSOmakepkg(8), PKGBUILD(5)
See the pacman website at https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/ for current
information on pacman and its related tools.
BUGS
Bugs? You must be kidding; there are no bugs in this software. But if
we happen to be wrong, send us an email with as much detail as possible
to pacman-dev@archlinux.org.
AUTHORS
Current maintainers:
· Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
· Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
· Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
· Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Past major contributors:
· Judd Vinet <jvinet@zeroflux.org>
· Aurelien Foret <aurelien@archlinux.org>
· Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>
· Xavier Chantry <shiningxc@gmail.com>
· Nagy Gabor <ngaba@bibl.u-szeged.hu>
For additional contributors, use git shortlog -s on the pacman.git
repository.
Pacman 4.2.0 2014-12-19 MAKEPKG-TEMPLATE(1)
