4.1.3 Repository Conventions – 20

Repository conventions are important in order to ensure every package resemble themselves. Here are the things to keep in mind:

[2010]

Prefer tarballs over git packages unless there is a sensible reason. Here are some:

• Every patch is a new release. (See vim)
• There are no releases. (See https://git.suckless.org/sbase)
• Following a development branch.
• There has been a long time since the latest release, but upstream is far ahead.

[2020]

Prefer sources without a dependency to automake. There are usually distribution tarballs that are autoconf’ed. Don’t submit tarballs with an automake dependency unless you are sure there is no alternative.

[2030]

Avoid these packages:

dbus

Usually can be disabled by --disable-dbus

gettext

Usually can be disabled by --disable-nls

[2040]

• Always install a package to the /usr prefix.
• All binaries should go to /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin or any other directory.
• All libraries should go to /usr/lib.

[2050]

All build files on the repository should be a POSIX shell script, and must start with #!/bin/sh -e.

The next section is about package templates that should be used in order to ensure stylistic consistency. Note that the option configurations shouldn’t be taken literally, they are meant as examples.

[2210] Make

#!/bin/sh -e

make
make DESTDIR="$1" PREFIX=/usr install

[2211] Configure/Make

#!/bin/sh -e

./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --disable-option \
    --enable-option

make
make DESTDIR="$1" install

[2212] Autoconf/Automake

See 2020

#!/bin/sh -e

autoreconf -fi

./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --disable-option \
    --enable-option

make
make DESTDIR="$1" install

[2220] Meson

#!/bin/sh -e

export DESTDIR=$1

meson \
    --prefix=/usr \
    -Doption=false \
    -Doption2=true \
    . output

ninja -C output
ninja -C output install

[2230] Cmake

#!/bin/sh -e

export DESTDIR=$1

cmake -B build \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    -DOPTION=ON

cmake --build   build
cmake --install build

[2240] Go

#!/bin/sh -e

export GOPATH=$PWD/gopath
trap "go clean -modcache" EXIT INT
go mod vendor

go build
install -Dm755 program "$1/usr/bin/program"

[2241] Python

#!/bin/sh -e

python setup.py build
python setup.py install --prefix=/usr --root="$1"