OVERVIEW

This repository contains pkgmk, a package management utility that makes a software package.

This distribution is a fork of CRUX' pkgmk utility (which is part of CRUX' pkgutils software) as of commit 9ca0da6 (Sat Nov 17 2018) with the following differences:

• POSIX sh(1p) with "local"s exception instead of bash(1)
• suckless' sbase support
• aria2c(1) downloader support
• manual pages in scdoc(5) format
• new manual pages:
  • pkgmk.Pkgfile(5)
  • pkgmk.32bit(5)
  • pkgmk.footprint(5)
  • pkgmk.md5sum(5)
  • pkgmk.nostrip(5)
• bash completion
• removed -{i|u|r} command-line options
• removed signify(1) support
• GNU-style options/help/usage
• zstd packages support
• allow renaming downloaded tarballs
• ignore extended attributes when extracting tarballs
• support specifying the format for the created archives

See git log for complete/further differences.

The original sources can be downloaded from:

• https://git.crux.nu/tools/pkgutils.git

REQUIREMENTS

Build time

• POSIX sh(1p), make(1p) and "mandatory utilities"
• scdoc(1) to build manual pages

Runtime

• POSIX sh(1p) with "local" support and "mandatory utilities"
• sbase or coreutils
• GNU diffutils
• GNU findutils
• curl(1) or wget(1) or aria2c(1) to download sources
• bsdtar(1) to unpack sources
• pkginfo(1) (from pkgutils) to make/check package footprint

INSTALL

To install this package, run:

make install

See config.mk file for configuration parameters.

DOCUMENTATION

See /man directory for manual pages.

LICENSE

pkgmk is licensed through the GNU General Public License v2 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. Read the COPYING file for copying conditions. Read the COPYRIGHT file for copyright notices.