pkgbuild-helper

Helpful guide on how to generate PKGBUILD for Arch Linux distributions

Make sure to read:

Category:Package development, Creating packages, Arch package guidelines, AUR submission guidelines

For license:

Arch package guidelines#licenses

Generate the .SRCINFO

makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO

Checking package sanity

namcap PKGBUILD

namcap pkgname.pkg.tar.zst

First run git needs to set the global username information:

git config --global user.email "you@example.com"

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global init.defaultBranch main # (trunk, development)

To generate new md5sums run the command updpkgsums:

sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib

How to upload to AUR repository

1. Create an account
2. Add your ssh public key
3. git -c init.defaultbranch=master clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase.git
4. cd package-git
5. cp PKGBUILD .SRCINFO (from your package)
6. git add PKGBUILD .SRCINFO
7. git commit -m "Initial version"
8. git push