alpkg 🏔

Set up Alpine Linux packaging environment with a breeze! See this blog post.

alpkg is a tool for all your Alpine packaging needs. It can create a chroot with preinstalled tools in a matter of seconds, set up aports repository, and fetch/update packages. Most importantly, it provides a split layout via Zellij for easy editing/building APKBUILD files.

Requirements

• alpine-chroot-install
  • See requirements.

Usage

Usage: alpkg [init|edit|fetch|update] [<package>]

Commands:
  init              Initialize an Alpine chroot.
  edit <package>    Edit or create a package.
  fetch <package>   Fetch an existing package from the remote repository.
  update <package>  Update the package on the remote repository.
  destroy           Remove the chroot and repository.

Options:
  --packager "Your Name <your@email.address>"              The name and email address of the package maintainer.
  --aports "https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/<user>/aports"  The URL of the remote APorts repository.

Environment variables:
  CHROOT_DIR   Directory for Alpine chroot. (default: /alpine)
  APORTS_DIR   Directory for remote APorts repository. (default: /home/user/aports)
  PACKAGE_DIR  Directory for APK packages built and stored. (default: /home/user/apkbuilds in chroot)

Features

init

To create an Alpine Linux chroot and initialize aports repository for packaging, simply run:

alpkg init --packager "Your Name <your@email.address>" --aports "https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/<user>/aports"

It is possible to pass options to alpine-chroot-install via environment variables.

Demo

* You need to create an account on https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org and fork the aports repository under your user.

* If you run alpkg init in your $HOME directory, the Alpine working directory will point to $HOME/apkbuilds.

edit

To create a new APKBUILD, you can use the edit command. Note that it uses newapkbuild under the hood so you can pass newapkbuild options to it:

alpkg edit <newapkbuild_opts> <package_name>

For example:

alpkg edit -r -d "A highly customizable changelog generator" -l "GPL-3.0-only" -u "https://github.com/orhun/git-cliff" git-cliff

Or you can generate an empty package with the following command:

alpkg edit testpkg

Demo

If the package already exists, you can also use edit command to edit the contents of the APKBUILD.

Demo

fetch

To fetch existing packages from aports and edit them:

alpkg fetch <package_name>

Demo

update

To commit the changes to the aports repository:

alpkg update <package_name>

Demo

License

This project is licensed under The MIT License.

Copyright

Copyright © 2023, Orhun Parmaksız