OVERVIEW

This directory contains pkgmk, a package management utility that makes a software package.

This distribution is a fork of CRUX' pkgmk utility (which is part of CRUX' pkgutils software) as of commit 9ca0da6 (Sat Nov 17 2018) with the following differences:

• POSIX sh(1p) with "local"s exception instead of bash(1)
• suckless' sbase support
• aria2c(1) downloader support
• manual pages in mdoc(7) format
• new Pkgfile(5) manual page
• bash completion
• removed "-i", "-u", and "-r" command-line options
• removed signify(1) support
• GNU-style options/help/usage
• zstd packages support
• allow renaming downloaded tarballs
• ignore extended attributes when extracting tarballs

See git log for complete/further differences.

The original sources can be downloaded from:

• https://git.crux.nu/tools/pkgutils.git

REQUIREMENTS

Build time

• POSIX sh(1p), make(1p) and "mandatory utilities"

Runtime

• POSIX sh(1p) with "local" support and "mandatory utilities"
• sbase or coreutils
• GNU diffutils
• GNU findutils
• curl(1) or wget(1) or aria2c(1) to download sources
• bsdtar(1) to unpack sources
• pkginfo(1) (from pkgutils) to make/check package footprint

INSTALL

The shell command make install should install this package.

The shell command make install_bashcomp should install bash completion script.

See config.mk for configuration parameters.

LICENSE

pkgmk is licensed through the GNU General Public License v2 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. Read the COPYING file for copying conditions. Read the COPYRIGHT file for copyright notices.