Talk:Creating an Alpine package

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Revision as of 02:50, 14 August 2023 by Zcrayfish (talk | contribs) (→‎Install section: Unsigned comment attribution.)

Under "commit your work", there's a thing to

cd $aportsdir
git pull

This should pull all the changes made by others into you local git repo. When you think you are ready you can add your files to git:

cd $apkbuilddir
git add APKBUILD (include any other files needed for the build; $pkgname.install...)
git commit


What is the difference between $aportsdir and $apkbuilddir?

Is apkbuilddir $aportsdir/$pkgname ? Or can $apkbuilddir be ~/work/foo/packagename


--Nangel 20:05, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Install section

The wiki mention:

APKBUILD should have the install variable defined and the scripts should also be added to the source variable

but when doing this abuild warn:

>>> WARNING: <aport>: You should not have $install in source

so I guess this should be remove, correct me if I'm wrong

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Steeve (talkcontribs) 12:53, 6 April 2015

Test your package

what i was missing after building, was how to test

#after abuild -r
apk add /home/$USER/packages/main/$ARCH/$PACKAGE_NAME.apk

--Hauke Löffler (talk) 22:21, 1 February 2017 (UTC)