Abuild

From Alpine Linux

To build a package, abuild is used. Beside the package building functionality also options for other package maintainance tasks are provided.

If you just want to build a package from a APKBUILD file, only those two command are needed.

abuild checksum && abuild -r

Below all options and commands for abuild are listed.

abuild [options] [-i PKG] [-P REPODEST] [-p PKGDEST] [-s SRCDEST] [cmd] ...

abuild [-c] -n PKGNAME[-PKGVER]

abuild options

• -c Enable colored output
• -d Disable dependency checking
• -f Force specified cmd, even if they are already done
• -F Force run as root
• -h Show this help
• -i Install PKG after successul build
• -k Keep built packages, even if APKBUILD or sources are newer
• -m Disable colors (monochrome)
• -p Set package destination directory
• -P Set PKGDEST to REPODEST/<repo>/\$CARCH, where repo is the parents dir name
• -q Quiet
• -r Install missing dependencies from system repository (using sudo)
• -R Recursively build and install missing dependencies (using sudo)
• -s Set source package destination directory
• -u Recursively build and upgrade all dependencies (using sudo)

abuild commands

• checksum Generate checksum to be included in APKBUILD
• fetch Fetch sources to \$SRCDEST and verify checksums
• sanitycheck Basic sanity check of APKBUILD
• md5check Check md5sums
• unpack Unpack sources to \$srcdir
• build Compile and install package into \$pkgdir
• listpkg List target packages
• package Create package in \$PKGDEST
• rootpkg Run '$0 build package' as fakeroot
• clean Remove temp build and install dirs
• cleanoldpkg Remove binary packages except current version
• cleanpkg Remove already built binary and source package
• cleancache Remove downloaded files from \$SRCDEST
• srcpkg Make a source package
• sourcecheck Check if remote source package exists upstream
• up2date Compare target and sources dates
• installdeps Install packages listed in makedepends and depends
• uninstalldeps Uninstall packages listed in makedepends and depends