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My AUR and MPR packages

My PKGBUILD shell scripts for the AUR and MPR packages that I maintain

Repology list (base package names; will use widgets later)

AUR

• meme-cli
• mudita-center-appimage
• mouse-configurator

MPR

• bitwarden-bin
• electronmail-bin
• ente-auth-bin
• ente-desktop-bin
• ferdium-bin
• freetube-bin
• gossip-bin
• organicmaps (needs fixing)
• playdate-mirror
• proton-mail-bin
• standard-notes-bin

Planned

• glow (uncertain)
  • Also glow-bin (uncertain)
• fztea (soon)
• jitsi-meet-electron-bin (soon)
• localsend-bin (soon)
• playdate-sdk (TBD)
• ricochet-refresh-bin (soon)
• vnote (WIP)
  • Also vnote-bin (WIP)

Packaging checklist

Creating/Adopting new package

• Make sure SSH connection is working, as detailed on the "Uploading Packages" page
• Initialize package (implicitly creates repo, if it does not exist yet) with:

  $ git clone "ssh://[email protected]/<pkg-name-here>.git"
  

• Declare Maintainer
  • Denote past Maintainers as Contributors (if needed)
• Change your displayed User Name and E-mail Address for Git repo!

  $ git config user.name "First-name Last-name"
  $ git config user.email "[email protected]"
  

  • Otherwise, you cannot do this later!
• Confirm e-mail changes the following:

  $ git config --list  # to see everything (both global first, then local at the end of stdout)
  $ git config user.email  # to see the locally set e-mail address
  

Updating packages

• Change:
  • pkgver
  • pkgrel (if needed)
  • Checksums
    • Most common & cryptographically sound checksums (as of Feb 2024)
      • SHA256
      • SHA512
        • For SHA512 checksums represented by base 64 in YAML files, use the following command to convert from hexadecimal into base 64:

          $ sha512sum <binary-name>.deb | cut -f1 -d\  | xxd -r -p | base64 -w0
          

      • BLAKE2 (i.e., the b2sum command in GNU Core Utilities)
    • Download the specified archive from the source (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, direct software source page, & so on)
• Update .SRCINFO package metadata file with:

  $ makepkg --printsrcinfo | tee .SRCINFO
  

  • This will print .SRCINFO (the PKGBUILD metadata that is used for the web page) into stdout (which helps to tell if the output source links work correctly.
• Lastly, add the files, make a commit, and push the changes:

  $ git add .
  $ git commit -m "Add message here"
  $ git commit --amend    # Write a longer message here, if needed
  $ git push
  

MPR specific notes

• I am not sure about the armv7l architecture platform
  • These may be auto-generated architecture platforms for DEB on GH
  • But I can't figure out if there are specific names "under armv7l
  • See the following:
    • Q&A for Debian architecture on Stack Exchange Unix & Linux
    • The armhf section in the "Architecture Specifics Memo" page on the Debian Wiki
    • The "ARM ports" page on the Debian Wiki
  • Also, I don't use this platform
  • Open a GH here if you really want to see this ARM platform on my MPR packages and we can determine if it's possible

Sources

• AUR on the ArchWiki
  • AUR Submission Guidelines on the ArchWiki
• .SRCINFO on the ArchWiki
• makedeb documentation page on uploading packages to the MPR

License

The license for the PKGBUILD scripts I author are under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GNU GPLv3).