This repository allows you to build the latest version of software, directly from the upstream repositories. Currently, this repository only has the i3-compatible window manager sway for Wayland (and its dependency wlc).
git clone https://github.com/robotanarchy/void-packages-bleeding-edge/
cd void-packages-bleeding-edge
./overlay.sh sway-git
./xbps-src binary-bootstrap
./xbps-src pkg sway-git
sudo xbps-install --force --repository=binpkgs sway-git# you must be in the void-packages-bleeding-edge folder
./overlay.sh sway-git
./xbps-src pkg wlc-git sway-git
./xbps-src pkg sway-git
sudo xbps-install --repository=binpkgs wlc-git sway-gitxbps-src is not able to set package template versions to the their current git versionsNOTE: Upstream discussion of XBPS overlays is here.
overlay.sh wraps the whole void-packages repository. Whenever you call it, it updates that void-packages repository (inside the cache folder) and merges shlibs (with cache/void-packages/common/shlibs) as well as the srcpkgs folders.
For each package template, git repositories (if you need svn etc, make a pull-request!) can be defined in the sources file. overlay.sh automatically checks out these repos to the cache-folder, updates the repositories, sets the right version in the template files and copies the contents of the cache-folder to masterdir/sources, so the upstream-repositories are available at build time and don't need to be downloaded again.
Go ahead and read the source code of overlay.sh, it is actually very short.
Fork this one and modify it to your needs :smile: You'll need at least the overlay.sh, sources and srcpkgs folder (put your own templates in there). The xbps-src-wrapper is useful, too.
If you have more bleeding edge packages, xlint them and make a pull request, so they can be added here.
Don't forget to add non-bleeding-edge packages to void-packages instead, where it makes sense.