Manually Create Packages

Question

I know this may sound a little strange, and you'll be wondering... "Why don't you just use makepkg?
Well, I don't actually use Arch Linux, and have always used FreeBSD, but I was interested in pacman , which I decided to port and run on FreeBSD, all is well, but now I'm stuck at creating packages from within the ports.
The idea was to make a script, which would build the port, then package up the binary files that are in 'work/$portname-$portversion' and create packages that would be compatible with pacman .
I was wondering if anyone knew the steps to manually create packages from a compiled source, so then I can implement it into a working script to use with my port tree.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[amzo@Bahamut ~]$ uname -a ; pacman -V
FreeBSD Bahamut 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
.--. Pacman v4.0.3 - libalpm v7.0.3

Answer 1

The reason I won't use Makepkg, is because the PKGBUILDS, won't build under FreeBSD. I've kinda made a working script to make packages, but it's no where near advance as makepkg is.
Well, it seems to be working fine for now, but doesn't handle dependencies well.
#!/bin/bash
me=`basename $0`
myver='1.0'
startdir=`pwd`
pkgname=`grep PORTNAME= Makefile | awk '{print $2}'`
pkgver=`grep PORTVERSION= Makefile | awk '{print $2}'`
[ -f /etc/makepkg.conf ] && . /etc/makepkg.conf
strip_url() {
echo $1 | sed 's|^.*://.*/||g'
if [ ! -f $startdir/Makefile ]; then
echo "error: Are you in the port directory?"
exit
fi
# Make pkg dir
mkdir -p pkg
# build
echo "==> Building Package..."
make PREFIX=$startdir/pkg install
# write the .PKGINFO file
echo "==> Generating .PKGINFO file..."
cd $startdir/pkg
echo "# Generated by makepkg $myver" >.PKGINFO
echo -n "# " >>.PKGINFO
date >>.PKGINFO
echo "pkgname = $pkgname" >>.PKGINFO
echo "pkgver = $pkgver" >>.PKGINFO
# remove info files
cd $startdir
rm -rf pkg/usr/info pkg/usr/share/info
# strip binaries
cd $startdir
echo "==> Stripping debugging symbols from libraries..."
find pkg/{,usr,usr/local}/lib -type f \
-exec /usr/bin/strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'
echo "==> Stripping symbols from binaries..."
find pkg/{,usr,usr/local}/{bin,sbin} -type f \
-exec /usr/bin/strip '{}' ';'
# tar it up
echo "==> Compressing package..."
cd $startdir/pkg
tar czvf $startdir/$pkgname-$pkgver.pkg.tar.gz .PKGINFO *
cd $startdir
echo "==> Finished";
And the packages play fine with pacman. Wooo
[amzo@Bahamut /usr/ports/x11-wm/dwm]$ sudo pacman -U dwm-6.0.pkg.tar.gz
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): dwm-6.0
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity [#############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [#############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [#############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) installing dwm [#############################################################################] 100%
The only problem that this brings to the field, is that it doesn't play nice with the database:
error: invalid name for database entry 'dwm-6.0'
Maybe someone could help me here a bit, someone who's more experienced with creating packages?
Last edited by Amzo2 (2012-06-03 13:42:07)