Creating an Alpine package
DRAFT
This document assumes that you have a working build environment, or use a diskbased alpine installation.
The APKBUILDs
The abuild script reads the APKBUILD and executes the steps needed to create a package.
The aports tree
The aports tree is a directory tree with many APKBUILDs. Those files are used when building alpine from source.
Installing and configuring the alpine-sdk
The alpine-sdk is a metapackage that pulls in the most essinsial packages used to build new packages. To install those packages:
apk add alpine-sdk
The aports tree is in git so before we can clone the aports tree we need to install and configure git. We need to tell git our name and email.
git config --global user.name "Your Full Name" git config --global user.email "your@email.address"
Now we can clone the aports tree.
git clone git://dev.alpinelinux.org/aports
Creating an APKBUILD file
cd aports && mkdir $pkgname cp /usr/share/abuild/APKBUILD.proto $pkgname/APKBUILD
Edit APKBUILD and fill in the needed info (especially pkgname, pkgver, pkgdesc, url, license, depends and source)
Build the package
abuild checksum >> APKBUILD abuild
Add any custom configure option into proper line of build() section
Splitting packages
For packages that install man and info files, it's better to put these file in a separated $pkgname-doc package. Edit APKBUILD and add:
subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
Be sure to put man files in /usr/share/man and info files in /usr/share/info. You need to re-run abuild to regenerate program and doc packages