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LURE Build Scripts
LURE uses build scripts similar to the AUR's PKGBUILDs. This is the documentation for those scripts.
Table of Contents
Distro Overrides
Allowing LURE to run on different distros provides some challenges. For example, some distros use different names for their packages. This is solved using distro overrides. Any variable or function used in a LURE build script may be overridden based on distro and CPU architecture. The way you do this is by appending the distro and/or architecture to the end of the name. For example, ITD depends on the pactl command as well as DBus and BlueZ. These are named somewhat differently on different distros. For ITD, I use the following for the dependencies:
deps=('dbus' 'bluez' 'pulseaudio-utils')
deps_arch=('dbus' 'bluez' 'libpulse')
deps_opensuse=('dbus-1' 'bluez' 'pulseaudio-utils')
Appending arch and opensuse to the end causes LURE to use the appropriate array based on the distro. If on Arch Linux, it will use deps_arch. If on OpenSUSE, it will use deps_opensuse, and if on anything else, it will use deps.
Names are checked in the following order:
- $name_$architecture_$distro
- $name_$distro
- $name_$architecture
- $name
Distro detection is performed by reading the /usr/lib/os-release and /etc/os-release files.
Like distros
Inside the os-release file, there is a list of "like" distros. LURE takes this into account. For example, if a script contains deps_debian but not deps_ubuntu, Ubuntu builds will use deps_debian because Ubuntu is based on debian.
Most specificity is preferred, so if both deps_debian and deps_ubuntu is provided, Ubuntu and all Ubuntu-based distros will use deps_ubuntu while Debian and all Debian-based distros
that are not Ubuntu-based will use deps_debian.
Like distros are disabled when using the LURE_DISTRO environment variable.
Variables
Any variables marked with (*) are required
name (*)
The name variable contains the name of the package described by the script.
version (*)
The version variable contains the version of the package. This should be the same as the version used by the author upstream.
Versions are compared using the rpmvercmp algorithm.
release (*)
The release number is meant to differentiate between different builds of the same package version, such as if the script is changed but the version stays the same. The release must be an integer.
epoch
The epoch number forces the package to be considered newer than versions with a lower epoch. It is meant to be used if the versioning scheme can't be used to determine which package is newer. Its use is discouraged and it should only be used if necessary. The epoch must be a positive integer.
desc
The desc field contains the description for the package. It should not contain any newlines.
homepage
The homepage field contains the URL to the website of the project packaged by this script.
maintainer
The maintainer field contains the name and email address of the person maintaining the package. Example:
Arsen Musayelyan <arsen@arsenm.dev>
While LURE does not require this field to be set, Debian has deprecated unset maintainer fields, and may disallow their use in .deb packages in the future.
architectures
The architectures array contains all the architectures that this package supports. These match Go's GOARCH list, except for a few differences.
The all architecture will be translated to the proper term for the packaging format. For example, it will be changed to noarch if building a .rpm, or any if building an Arch package.
Since multiple variations of the arm architecture exist, the following values should be used:
arm5: armv5
arm6: armv6
arm7: armv7
LURE will attempt to detect which variant your system is using by checking for the existence of various CPU features. If this yields the wrong result or if you simply want to build for a different variant, the LURE_ARM_VARIANT variable should be set to the ARM variant you want. Example:
LURE_ARM_VARIANT=arm5 lure install ...
licenses
The licenses array contains the licenses used by this package. In order to standardize license names, values should be SPDX Identifiers such as Apache-2.0, MIT, and GPL-3.0-only. If the project uses a license that is not standardized in SPDX, use the value Custom. If the project has multiple nonstandard licenses, include Custom as many times as there are nonstandard licenses.
provides
The provides array specifies what features the package provides. For example, if two packages build ffmpeg with different build flags, they should both have ffmpeg in the provides array.
conflicts
The conflicts array contains names of packages that conflict with the one built by this script. If two different packages contain the executable for ffmpeg, they cannot be installed at the same time, so they conflict. The provides array will also be checked, so this array generally contains the same values as provides.
deps
The deps array contains the dependencies for the package. LURE repos will be checked first, and if the packages exist there, they will be built and installed. Otherwise, they will be installed from the system repos by your package manager.
build_deps
The build_deps array contains the dependencies that are required to build the package. They will be installed before the build starts. Similarly to the deps array, LURE repos will be checked first.
replaces
The replaces array contains the packages that are replaced by this package. Generally, if package managers find a package with a replaces field set, they will remove the listed package(s) and install that one instead. This is only useful if the packages are being stored in a repo for your package manager.
sources
The sources array contains URLs which are downloaded into $srcdir before the build starts.
If the URL provided is an archive or compressed file, it will be extracted. To disable this, add the ~archive=false query parameter. Example:
Extracted:
https://example.com/archive.tar.gz
Not extracted:
https://example.com/archive.tar.gz?~archive=false
If the URL scheme starts with git+, the source will be downloaded as a git repo. The git download mode supports multiple parameters:
~tag: Specify which tag of the repo to check out.~branch: Specify which branch of the repo to check out.~commit: Specify which commit of the repo to check out.~depth: Specify what depth should be used when cloning the repo. Must be an integer.~name: Specify the name of the directory into which the git repo should be cloned.
Examples:
git+https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/itd?~branch=resource-loading&~depth=1
git+https://gitea.arsenm.dev/Arsen6331/lure?~tag=v0.0.1
checksums
The checksums array must be the same length as the sources array. It contains sha256 checksums for the source files. The files are checked against the checksums and the build fails if they don't match.
To skip the check for a particular source, set the corresponding checksum to SKIP.
backup
The backup array contains files that should be backed up when upgrading and removing. The exact behavior of this depends on your package manager. All files within this array must be full destination paths. For example, if there's a config called config in /etc that you want to back up, you'd set it like so:
backup=('/etc/config')
scripts
The scripts variable contains a Bash associative array that specifies the location of various scripts relative to the build script. Example:
scripts=(
['preinstall']='preinstall.sh'
['postinstall']='postinstall.sh'
['preremove']='preremove.sh'
['postremove']='postremove.sh'
['preupgrade']='preupgrade.sh'
['postupgrade']='postupgrade.sh'
['pretrans']='pretrans.sh'
['posttrans']='posttrans.sh'
)
Note: The quotes are required due to limitations with the bash parser used.
The preupgrade and postupgrade scripts are only available in .apk and Arch Linux packages.
The pretrans and posttrans scripts are only available in .rpm packages.
The rest of the scripts are available in all packages.
Functions
This section documents user-defined functions that can be added to build scripts. Any functions marked with (*) are required.
All functions are executed in the $srcdir directory
version
The version() function updates the version variable. This allows for automatically deriving the version from sources. This is most useful for git packages, which usually don't need to be changed, so their version variable stays the same.
An example of using this for git:
version() {
cd "$srcdir/itd"
printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
}
The AUR equivalent is the pkgver() function
prepare
The prepare() function is meant to prepare the sources for building and packaging. This is the function in which patches should be applied, for example, by the patch command, and where tools like go generate should be executed.
build
The build() function is where the package is actually built. Use the same commands that would be used to manually compile the software. Often, this function is just one line:
build() {
make
}
package (*)
The package() function is where the built files are placed into the directory that will be used by LURE to build the package.
Any files that should be installed on the filesystem should go in the $pkgdir directory in this function. For example, if you have a binary called bin that should be placed in /usr/bin and a config file called bin.cfg that should be placed in /etc, the package() function might look like this:
package() {
install -Dm755 bin ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/bin
install -Dm644 bin.cfg ${pkgdir}/etc/bin.cfg
}
Environment Variables
LURE exposes several values as environment variables for use in build scripts.
DISTRO_NAME
The DISTRO_NAME variable is the name of the distro as defined in its os-release file.
For example, it's set to Fedora Linux in a Fedora 36 docker image
DISTRO_PRETTY_NAME
The DISTRO_PRETTY_NAME variable is the "pretty" name of the distro as defined in its os-release file.
For example, it's set to Fedora Linux 36 (Container Image) in a Fedora 36 docker image
DISTRO_ID
The DISTRO_ID variable is the identifier of the distro as defined in its os-release file. This is the same as what LURE uses for overrides.
For example, it's set to fedora in a Fedora 36 docker image
DISTRO_ID_LIKE
The DISTRO_ID_LIKE variable contains identifiers of similar distros to the one running, separated by spaces.
For example, it's set to opensuse suse in an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed docker image and rhel fedora in a CentOS 8 docker image.
DISTRO_VERSION_ID
The DISTRO_VERSION_ID variable is the version identifier of the distro as defined in its os-release file.
For example, it's set to 36 in a Fedora 36 docker image and 11 in a Debian Bullseye docker image
ARCH
The ARCH variable is the architecture of the machine running the script. It uses the same naming convention as the values in the architectures array
NCPU
The NCPU variable is the amount of CPUs available on the machine running the script. It will be set to 8 on a quad core machine with hyperthreading, for example.
Helper Commands
LURE provides various commands to help packagers create proper cross-distro packages. These commands should be used wherever possible instead of doing the tasks manually.
install-binary
install-binary accepts 1-2 arguments. The first argument is the binary you'd like to install. The second is the filename that should be used.
If the filename argument is not provided, tha name of the input file will be used.
Examples:
install-binary ./itd
install-binary ./itd itd-2
install-systemd
install-systemd installs regular systemd system services (see install-systemd-user for user services)
It accepts 1-2 arguments. The first argument is the service you'd like to install. The second is the filename that should be used.
If the filename argument is not provided, tha name of the input file will be used.
Examples:
install-systemd ./syncthing@.service
install-systemd-user ./syncthing@.service sync-thing@.service
install-systemd-user
install-systemd-user installs systemd user services (services like itd meant to be started with --user).
It accepts 1-2 arguments. The first argument is the service you'd like to install. The second is the filename that should be used.
If the filename argument is not provided, tha name of the input file will be used.
Examples:
install-systemd-user ./itd.service
install-systemd-user ./itd.service infinitime-daemon.service
install-config
install-config installs configuration files into the /etc directory
It accepts 1-2 arguments. The first argument is the config you'd like to install. The second is the filename that should be used.
If the filename argument is not provided, tha name of the input file will be used.
Examples:
install-config ./itd.toml
install-config ./itd.example.toml itd.toml
install-license
install-license installs a license file
It accepts 1-2 arguments. The first argument is the config you'd like to install. The second is the filename that should be used.
If the filename argument is not provided, tha name of the input file will be used.
Examples:
install-license ./LICENSE itd/LICENSE
install-completion
install-completion installs shell completions
It currently supports bash, zsh, and fish
Completions are read from stdin, so they can either be piped in or retrieved from files
Two arguments are required for this function. The first one is the name of the shell and the second is the name of the completion.
Examples:
./k9s completion fish | install-completion fish k9s
install-completion bash k9s <./k9s/completions/k9s.bash
install-manual
install-manual installs manpages. It accepts a single argument, which is the path to the manpage.
The install path will be determined based on the number at the end of the filename. If a number cannot be extracted, an error will be returned.
Examples:
install-manual ./man/strelaysrv.1
install-manual ./mdoc.7
install-desktop
install-desktop installs desktop files for applications. It accepts 1-2 arguments. The first argument is the config you'd like to install. The second is the filename that should be used.
If the filename argument is not provided, tha name of the input file will be used.
Examples:
install-desktop ./${name}/share/admc.desktop
install-desktop ./${name}/share/admc.desktop admc-app.desktop
install-library
install-library installs shared and static libraries to the correct location.
This is the most important helper as it contains logic to figure out where to install libraries based on the target distro and CPU architecture. It should almost always be used to install all libraries.
It accepts 1-2 arguments. The first argument is the config you'd like to install. The second is the filename that should be used.
If the filename argument is not provided, tha name of the input file will be used.
Examples:
install-library ./${name}/build/libadldap.so
git-version
git-version returns a version number based on the git revision of a repository.
If an argument is provided, it will be used as the path to the repo. Otherwise, the current directory will be used.
The version number will be the amount of revisions, a dot, and the short hash of the current revision. For example: 118.e4b8348.
The AUR's convention includes an r at the beginning of the version number. This is ommitted because some distros expect the version number to start with a digit.
Examples:
git-version
git-version "$srcdir/itd"