Abuild and Helpers

The abuild package provides scripts you need when creating packages for Alpine Linux. The abuild package and its friends are installed automatically along with the alpine-sdk package.

apk add alpine-sdk

The git repository always contains the latest version of the scripts, example-files, and makefiles.

Building and maintaining packages

abuild

If you just want to build a package from an APKBUILD file, only two command are needed. Both commands operate on an APKBUILD file in the current directory, so you should cd into the directory before running them.

• abuild checksum: updates the checksums for source files.
• abuild -r: builds the package.

The manual page (available via man abuild) describes all options and commands for abuild.

abump

The tool abump is a utility to bump pkgver in APKBUILD files if the package gets an update to a newer upstream release. abump will update the package's pkgver, rebuild it and create a new commit with the resulting changes.

The manual page (available via man abump) describes all options for abump.

Generating new APKBUILDs

newapkbuild

To create the actual APKBUILD file newapkbuild can serve you a template to start with. It will create a directory with the given package name, place an example/template APKBUILD file in the given directory, and fill some variables if those are provided.

The newapkbuild tool, which is installed as part of the abuild package, can generate a new APKBUILD template to use as a starting point. The manual page (available via man newapkbuild) describes all options for newapkbuild.

If you doubt to which repository your package belongs to you can safely use testing. Building package in your aports/testing directory is not mandatory but this way the package is already at the right place.

Tip: Follow the package naming conventions mentioned in package policies while choosing a packagename.

The following command will create a directory with the given package name, place an example/template APKBUILD file in the directory, and fill some variables if those are provided.

newapkbuild packagename

If you are creating a daemon package which needs initd scripts you can add the -c option as follows:

newapkbuild -c packagename

This will copy the sample initd and confd files to the build directory. A third file sample.install file will be copied as well (we will discuss this later on).

apkbuild-pypi

The abuild package provides scripts you need when creating packages for Alpine Linux. The abuild package and its friends are installed automatically along with the alpine-sdk package.

apk add alpine-sdk

The git repository always contains the latest version of the scripts, example-files, and makefiles.

Building and maintaining packages

abuild

If you just want to build a package from an APKBUILD file, only two command are needed. Both commands operate on an APKBUILD file in the current directory, so you should cd into the directory before running them.

• abuild checksum: updates the checksums for source files.
• abuild -r: builds the package.

The manual page (available via man abuild) describes all options and commands for abuild.

abump

The tool abump is a utility to bump pkgver in APKBUILD files if the package gets an update to a newer upstream release. abump will update the package's pkgver, rebuild it and create a new commit with the resulting changes.

The manual page (available via man abump) describes all options for abump.

Generating new APKBUILDs

newapkbuild

To create the actual APKBUILD file newapkbuild can serve you a template to start with. It will create a directory with the given package name, place an example/template APKBUILD file in the given directory, and fill some variables if those are provided.

The newapkbuild tool, which is installed as part of the abuild package, can generate a new APKBUILD template to use as a starting point. The manual page (available via man newapkbuild) describes all options for newapkbuild.

If you doubt to which repository your package belongs to you can safely use testing. Building package in your aports/testing directory is not mandatory but this way the package is already at the right place.

Tip: Follow the package naming conventions mentioned in package policies while choosing a packagename.

The following command will create a directory with the given package name, place an example/template APKBUILD file in the directory, and fill some variables if those are provided.

newapkbuild packagename

If you are creating a daemon package which needs initd scripts you can add the -c option as follows:

newapkbuild -c packagename

This will copy the sample initd and confd files to the build directory. A third file sample.install file will be copied as well (we will discuss this later on).

Signing packages and indexes

abuild-sign

abuild-sign is for signing indexes.

abuild-sign [-hq] [-k PRIVKEY] [-p PUBKEY] INDEXFILE...

abuild-sign options

• -h Show this help
• -k The private key to use for signing
• -p The name of public key. apk add will look for /etc/apk/keys/PUBKEY

abuild-tar

abuild-tar [--hash[=<algorithm>]] [--cut]

abuild-tar options

• --hash[=sha1|md5] Read tar archive from stdin, precalculate hash for regular entries and output tar archive on stdout
• --cut Remove the end of file tar record

Setting up the build environment

abuild-keygen

For abuild a public/private rsa key pair is needed. The abuild-keygen command from abuild package generates and configures the security keys.

$ abuild-keygen -a -i

buildlab

See the buildlab page.

Signing packages and indexes

abuild-sign

abuild-sign is for signing indexes.

abuild-sign [-hq] [-k PRIVKEY] [-p PUBKEY] INDEXFILE...

abuild-sign options

• -h Show this help
• -k The private key to use for signing
• -p The name of public key. apk add will look for /etc/apk/keys/PUBKEY

abuild-tar

abuild-tar [--hash[=<algorithm>]] [--cut]

abuild-tar options

• --hash[=sha1|md5] Read tar archive from stdin, precalculate hash for regular entries and output tar archive on stdout
• --cut Remove the end of file tar record

buildrepo

The abuild package provides scripts you need when creating packages for Alpine Linux. The abuild package and its friends are installed automatically along with the alpine-sdk package.

apk add alpine-sdk

The git repository always contains the latest version of the scripts, example-files, and makefiles.

Building and maintaining packages

abuild

If you just want to build a package from an APKBUILD file, only two command are needed. Both commands operate on an APKBUILD file in the current directory, so you should cd into the directory before running them.

• abuild checksum: updates the checksums for source files.
• abuild -r: builds the package.

The manual page (available via man abuild) describes all options and commands for abuild.

abump

The tool abump is a utility to bump pkgver in APKBUILD files if the package gets an update to a newer upstream release. abump will update the package's pkgver, rebuild it and create a new commit with the resulting changes.

The manual page (available via man abump) describes all options for abump.

Generating new APKBUILDs

newapkbuild

To create the actual APKBUILD file newapkbuild can serve you a template to start with. It will create a directory with the given package name, place an example/template APKBUILD file in the given directory, and fill some variables if those are provided.

The newapkbuild tool, which is installed as part of the abuild package, can generate a new APKBUILD template to use as a starting point. The manual page (available via man newapkbuild) describes all options for newapkbuild.

If you doubt to which repository your package belongs to you can safely use testing. Building package in your aports/testing directory is not mandatory but this way the package is already at the right place.

Tip: Follow the package naming conventions mentioned in package policies while choosing a packagename.

The following command will create a directory with the given package name, place an example/template APKBUILD file in the directory, and fill some variables if those are provided.

newapkbuild packagename

If you are creating a daemon package which needs initd scripts you can add the -c option as follows:

newapkbuild -c packagename

This will copy the sample initd and confd files to the build directory. A third file sample.install file will be copied as well (we will discuss this later on).

Signing packages and indexes

abuild-sign

abuild-sign is for signing indexes.

abuild-sign [-hq] [-k PRIVKEY] [-p PUBKEY] INDEXFILE...

abuild-sign options

• -h Show this help
• -k The private key to use for signing
• -p The name of public key. apk add will look for /etc/apk/keys/PUBKEY

abuild-tar

abuild-tar [--hash[=<algorithm>]] [--cut]

abuild-tar options

• --hash[=sha1|md5] Read tar archive from stdin, precalculate hash for regular entries and output tar archive on stdout
• --cut Remove the end of file tar record

Setting up the build environment

abuild-keygen

For abuild a public/private rsa key pair is needed. The abuild-keygen command from abuild package generates and configures the security keys.

$ abuild-keygen -a -i

buildlab

See the buildlab page.

Setting up the build environment

abuild-keygen

For abuild a public/private rsa key pair is needed. The abuild-keygen command from abuild package generates and configures the security keys.

$ abuild-keygen -a -i

buildlab

See the buildlab page.