APKBUILD examples:Subpackages

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Consider the following APKBUILD snippet:

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

It will ...

create the following 5 packages:

foo (main)
foo-dev (sub)
foo-doc (sub)
py-foo (sub)
libfoo (sub)

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

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