Include:Newapkbuild

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).