This repository contains all of the recipes required to build Serpent OS from source.
boulder
and moss
rely on so-called subuid
and subgid
support.
If you do not already have this set up for your user in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subuid
, run this:
$ sudo touch /etc/sub{uid,gid}
$ sudo usermod --add-subuids 1000000-1065535 --add-subgids 1000000-1065535 root
$ sudo usermod --add-subuids 1065536-1131071 --add-subgids 1065536-1131071 "$USER"
If you are not building on Serpent OS, you're going to have to install boulder
first.
See its readme for instructions.
Our justfile
defaults to local-x86_64
profile with boulder. While we traditionally shipped this pre-enabled configuration, we figured that mandating
root
-user and world-accessible directories was generally a Bad Move.
Create an empty local repository
The path you use for this doesn't matter much, as long as the user account you want to use
to run boulder
has read/write access to it.
# Set up an XDG compliant local_repo w/explicit architecture
$ mkdir -pv ~/.cache/local_repo/x86_64/
$ moss index ~/.cache/local_repo/x86_64/
Add the local repository to the repositories known to moss
If you're on Serpent OS, you will want to make the local repository available for package installation.
To do so, run the following command:
$ sudo moss repo add local file://${HOME}/.cache/local_repo/x86_64/stone.index -p 10
Create a boulder build profile
We'll add the (unversioned) volatile repository¹ at the bottom layer, and elevate our local repository priority to take precedence.
$ boulder profile add local-x86_64 --repo name=volatile,uri=https://dev.serpentos.com/volatile/x86_64/stone.index,priority=0 --repo name=local,uri=file://${HOME}/.cache/local_repo/x86_64/stone.index,priority=10
¹ the current one and only official online repository that you usually get all your packages from
Specifying just
default variables in the .env
file
Create a .env
file in the root of the recipes/
directory, next to the supplied justfile
.
Example .env
file:
# All installs need a default local repository set up for convenience
# If you're awkward and want to use a different path than the default,
# uncomment and change it below:
# LOCAL_REPO="${HOME}/.cache/local_repo/x86_64"
The justfile
is set up so you can also choose to specify either of the above environment variables on a command-line invocation of just
:
Example:
BOULDER_ARGS="--data-dir=${HOME}/.local/share/boulder" just build
Overriding default boulder arguments
If you are not building on Serpent OS using the os-supplied boulder package, or if you want to specify custom arguments
to the boulder invocation when using the just
targets, you might benefit from adding some or all of the following options
to your .env
file in recipes/ root next to the justfile
:
# Uncomment this if you want to use a different boulder than the one in /usr/bin
# BOULDER="${HOME}/.local/bin/boulder"
# Uncomment this if you want to explicitly override the shipped boulder configuration
# BOULDER_ARGS="--data-dir=${HOME}/.local/share/boulder --config-dir=${HOME}/.config/boulder --moss-root=${HOME}/.cache/boulder"
Well, actually Rust.. Anyway, quickly try to pushd m/m4/ && just build
or pushd n/nano && just build
for a quick and easy confirmation that everything works OK.
To keep git summaries readable, serpent-os requires the following git summary format
name: Add at v<version>
name: Update to v<version>
name: Fix <...>
name: [NFC] <description of no functional change>
The use of the Initial inclusion
verbiage is strongly discouraged.
jq
We provide .jsonc
(JSON with comments) manifest files, the popular jq
tool doesn't currently support .jsonc
files; however, you can use the C preprocessor to strip any comments before passing to jq
e.g.
cpp -P -E manifest.x86_64.jsonc | jq .packages
Packaging focus should be on bringing up the GNOME Desktop + associated stack
Other areas of focus:
The aim for our desktop right now is to ship the following:
Unless otherwise specified, all packaging recipes are available under the terms of the MPL-2.0 license.
The Serpent OS Developers reserve the right to reject recipe contributions which are not licensed to the Serpent OS Developer collective under the MPL-2.0 license
Individual software releases are available under the terms specified
upstream, collected in each stone.yaml
recipe. Any patches against
a software package is under the relevant license for each upstream.
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