ItachiSan / linux_packaging

Packaging for my distros, as ArchLinux (main one) and Ubuntu (maybe)

Giovanni Santini's ArchLinux packages

Here are all the AUR packages maintained by me ;)

The equivalent AUR search is:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&K=ItachiSan

Comaintaining

Are you a comaintainer and want to start quickly to hack stuff? Then here is what you should do.

(I assume here we already talked about stuff & I checked that you actually know what we are talking about ;) )

Setup

Before hacking the packages, you need to get some stuff right:

1. Fetch this repository via:

   git clone https://github.com/ItachiSan/linux_packaging.git /path/to/my_local_copy

2. Update the submodules:

   git submodule update --init

   If you want to work on a specific submodule or a set, just provide it as parameted:

   # Set up only the po-debconf submodule
   git submodule update --init po-debconf
   # Set up only the telegram-destkop submodules
   git submodule update --init telegram-desktop*

3. Install the provided Git hooks with:

   ./hooks/install.sh

   These are required for correctly generating the commits.

Check for missing updates

This repo has an nvchecker wrapper for easily checking for updates.

First, you need to create in the tools the nvchecker_keys.toml. Just copy the example version and add the relevant tokens.

As of 2023-02-07, you need to have a private Github access token to guarantee consistent API calls, see the consideration here.

After this setup, just run the tool:

./tools/check_updates.sh.

Updating a package

Now you are practically ready to go: if you want to update the packages, the way is simple:

1. Enter the package folder

2. Edit the PKGBUILD with any editor you like.

   IMPORTANT: packaging-only changes increase only the pkgrel, only upstream version changes increase pkgver.

3. updpkgsums

4. Build the package, to verify all is working

5. Commit the changes; the message will be initially formatted with the repository standard. Just add the list of changes with a list, for example:

   # This is already here
   updpkg: APACKAGE 1.2.3-4
   
   # Then you add lines like:
   - Version bump.
   - Improvements to PKGBUILD.
   - ...

   The list should mention all the actual changes.

Future wishes

1. Automated packaging
2. Distribution via Github Pages; right now I have an OpenBuildService repository, but ugh.
3. Add more packages (requires 1. & 2. properly working)