APKBUILD examples:Subpackages

Consider the following APKBUILD snippet:

Contents of foo/APKBUILD

... pkgname="foo" subpackages="$pkgname-dev $pkgname-doc py-$pkgname:pysub libfoo" ...

It will ...

• create the following 5 packages:

1. foo (main)
2. foo-dev (sub)
3. foo-doc (sub)
4. py-foo (sub)
5. libfoo (sub)

• using the following 5 package functions (respectively) to fill them with files:

1. package(): will be provided by the user (and can make use of the $pkgdir variable).
2. dev(): will be provided by abuild unless we override it, by providing our own dev() function (which can make use of the $subpkgdir variable).
3. doc(): will be provided by abuild unless we override it, by providing our own doc() function (which can make use of the $subpkgdir variable).
4. pysub(): will be provided by the user (and can make use of the $subpkgdir variable).
5. libfoo(): will be provided by the user (and can make use of the $subpkgdir variable).