Debian pkgdevel

Docker image with tools for developing and building debian packages.

Usage

Starting the container

> docker run -ti --rm -v $(pwd):/workdir \
    -e "DEBEMAIL=$(git config --get user.email)" \
    ghcr.io/pgils/debian-pkgdevel:bullseye

• uid and gid of the builder user in the container are automatically updated to match the ownership of the /workdir directory.
• DEBEMAIL should be set if you are editing Changelogs

(Re)building package from source repositories

> apt-get source htop
> cd htop-3.0.5/
> sudo apt-get build-dep -y .
> debuild -uc -us

Building custom packages with makepkg

makepkg is a helper script to automate building custom packages. It can fetch sources based on a pkg.conf file. See example-package/hello-world for an example.

Example building hello-world:

> cd example-package/hello-world
> makepkg

makepkg usage

❯ ./makepkg -h

  usage: makepkg [-sqh]

    -s, --source        Only fetch sources and exit
    -q, --quiet         Do not output to stdout
    -h, --help          Print this help and exit

Updating checksum with updpkgsum

updpkgsum downloads a distfile and writes it's SHA-256 checksum to pkg.conf

> cd example-package/hello-world
> updpkgsum

Generating repositories with makerepo

This example uses the output from hello-world

makerepo searches for .deb files recursively, so these files need to be in a path below pwd.

> makerepo output

This will produce packages, sources, and repository index files in output/:

output
├── packages
│   ├── hello-world_0.0.1-1_arm64.deb
│   └── Packages.gz
└── sources
    ├── hello-world_0.0.1-1.debian.tar.xz
    ├── hello-world_0.0.1-1.dsc
    ├── hello-world_0.0.1.orig.tar.gz
    └── Sources.gz

note that packages are not signed.

makerepo usage

❯ ./makerepo -h

  usage: makerepo [-qh] OUTPUT_DIR

    -q, --quiet         Do not output to stdout
    -h, --help          Print this help and exit