First PKGBUILD, comments are welcomed

Question

Hi,
I adopted the orphan package Selfoss and modified the PKGBUILD and .install files. Since this is my first one, I thought I post it here first. So if anybody has any input I would really appreciate it.
The two big differences between my PKGBUILD and the original is that I moved the config file to /etc/selfoss/.. and that I keep the old data folder (on upgrades). I keep the data folder because the selfoss homepage states that you should on upgrades
Upload all new files and folders excluding the data folder
My main concern is this folder thing (which I do in the .install file). My suspicion is that I maybe don't need to restore the old data folder. I made some quick tests, and it looked like pacman kept everything that had been added or modified after the last install. But I really don't know when or how pacman will change stuff on a upgrade. So I started looking for answers. First on the wiki, like on pages about ABS, PKGBUILD, creating packages and the Arch packaging standards and then on the forum. But I didn't find it..
Anyhow, here's my PKGBUILD and .install . Thanks in advance!
PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Maxim Andersson <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Tetsumaki <http://goo.gl/YMBdA>
pkgname=selfoss
pkgver=2.9
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The new multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application"
arch=('any')
url="http://selfoss.aditu.de/"
license=('GPL3')
depends=('php>=5.3')
optdepends=('apache: is depedency if you do not use lighttpd or nginx'
'lighttpd'
'nginx'
'mariadb: is depedency if you do not use postgresql or sqlite'
'postgresql'
'sqlite'
'php-sqlite: is dependacy if you use sqlite'
'wget: for automatic updating feeds with cron'
'curl: for automatic updating feeds with cron')
conflicts=('selfoss-git')
backup=('etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=("http://selfoss.aditu.de/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip"
"${pkgname}.install")
sha256sums=('9bf3642c7de146c1a89c336ad5fc77e1823d125d7dbfed9060c6c7c2cdc8ec39'
'f59a0de2ee13d83a263a8f1a0c25ee3542e1981d6ead19af299999818975e142')
package() {
rm -rf README.md ${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip
install -d "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
cp -rf . "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/
# move config to etc
install -d "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}
sed '4,$s/^/;/' "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/defaults.ini > "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini
chmod 755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/{data/cache,data/favicons,data/logs,data/sqlite,data/thumbnails,public}
chown -R http: "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
selfoss.install
link_config() {
ln -sf /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
chown http: /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
post_install() {
link_config
echo ""
echo "==> Installed in : /usr/share/webapps/selfoss"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
pre_upgrade() {
# save old config (from pkgbuild 2.8)
[[ -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini && ! -f /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini ]] \
&& install -Dm644 /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
[[ -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini && -f /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini ]] \
&& install -Dm644 /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini.backup
# temporarily backup data folder
rm -rf /tmp/data
cp -rf /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data /tmp/ 2> /dev/null
post_upgrade() {
link_config
# restore data folder
if [[ -d /tmp/data ]]; then
rm -rf /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data
cp -rf /tmp/data /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/
fi
rm -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/public/{all.css,all.js}
[[ -d /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data/icons ]] \
&& mv -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data/{icons,favicons}
echo ""
echo "==> For a clean update:"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Refresh your browser cache (CTRL+R in most cases)"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
For reference, here's the AUR page with the old PKGBUILD.

Answer 1

Ok, so here's how my PKGBUILD and .install looks like now.
PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Maxim Andersson <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Tetsumaki <http://goo.gl/YMBdA>
pkgname=selfoss
pkgver=2.9
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The new multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application"
arch=('any')
url="http://selfoss.aditu.de/"
license=('GPL3')
depends=('php>=5.3')
optdepends=('apache: server, depedency if not using lighttpd or nginx'
'lighttpd: server, depedency if not using apache or nginx'
'nginx: server, depedency if not using lighttpd or apache'
'mariadb: database, depedency if not using postgresql or sqlite'
'postgresql: database, depedency if not using mariadb or sqlite'
'sqlite: database, depedency if not using postgresql or mariadb'
'php-sqlite: dependency if using sqlite'
'wget: for automatic updating feeds with cron'
'curl: for automatic updating feeds with cron')
backup=('etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=("http://selfoss.aditu.de/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip")
sha256sums=('9bf3642c7de146c1a89c336ad5fc77e1823d125d7dbfed9060c6c7c2cdc8ec39')
package() {
rm -rf "${srcdir}"/{README.md,${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip}
install -d "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
cp -af "${srcdir}"/. "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/
# create config in /etc
install -d "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}
sed '4,$s/^/;/' "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/defaults.ini > "${pkgdir}"/etc/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini
ln -sf /etc/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/config.ini
chmod 755 "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}/{data/cache,data/favicons,data/logs,data/sqlite,data/thumbnails,public}
chown -R http: "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/webapps/${pkgname}
# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
.install
post_install() {
echo ""
echo "==> Installed in : /usr/share/webapps/selfoss"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
pre_upgrade() {
# save old untracked config (from pkgbuild 2.8) and make it tracked
[[ -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini && ! -h /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini ]] \
&& install -Dm644 /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/config.ini /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini
post_upgrade() {
rm -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/public/{all.css,all.js}
echo ""
echo "==> For a clean update:"
echo "==> Change RewriteBase in .htaccess"
echo "==> Refresh your browser cache (CTRL+R in most cases)"
echo "==> Check http://selfoss.aditu.de/ for details."
echo ""
echo "==> Config is now at /etc/webapps/selfoss/config.ini"
echo ""
pre_remove() {
# remove untracked files
find /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/data/ -type f -exec rm -f '{}' ';' 2> /dev/null
rm -f /usr/share/webapps/selfoss/public/{all.css,all.js}
Thanks for all the time you spent explainting stuff! Really appreciate it. Can't wait to adopt a new PKGBUILD or maybe make a new one
The only thing I wasn't able to do was to put the data directory in /var/lib/. On upgrades pacman complained about the new link (ln -s /var/lib/.. data), because it was already tracking a directory with the same name ('data'). But that's no big deal.
Last edited by thesilentboatman (2014-02-10 17:13:22)