[SCRIPT]: Build AUR Packages With Ease

Question

I just started to use Arch, and coming from Ubuntu/Debian, it was a bit of a shock, but Arch does grow on you.  One of it's strengths is the AUR.  When I first found out about it, I was all like, "HOLY $#!% ITS MACPORTS FOR LINUX."  Turns out is isn't quite as easy to use, but it works.  Walking into Arch, the only languages I was comfortable writing code in were C/Objective-C.  Tonight I learned a little bash and wrote this wrapper around makepkg.  Tell me what you think.  The only thing missing that I can think of is dependency resolving, but I didn't want to put in the work for that just yet.
#! /bin/bash
ROOT=`pwd`
BUILDDIR=pkgbuild
NAME=$2
PREFIX=`expr ${NAME:0:2}`
URL=http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$PREFIX/$NAME/$NAME.tar.gz
echo Package URL is $URL
setup() {
mkdir -p $BUILDDIR/$NAME
cd $BUILDDIR
download() {
curl $URL | gunzip | tar -x
cd $NAME
build() {
makepkg -s 1>/dev/null
install() {
makepkg -si 1>/dev/null
clean() {
cd $ROOT/$BUILDDIR
rm -rf $NAME
allclean() {
cd $ROOT
rm -rf $BUILDDIR
case $1 in
install)
setup
download
install
build)
setup
download
build
clean)
clean
allclean)
allclean
echo "Usage:"
echo $0 "{install|build|clean|allclean} <package>"
esac
Here is the command syntax:
Usage:
./archpkg {install|build|clean|allclean} <package>
Last edited by Relish (2012-01-16 05:31:33)

Answer 1

karol wrote:
Relish wrote:Here are the command synaptics:
I think you mean 'command syntax' :-)
You can try to get the BUILDDIR from makepkg.conf.
Yes
I can't seem to find that entry in makepkg.conf.