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| author |   Patrick J Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com> | 2009-08-26 10:00:38 -0500 |
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| committer |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2018-05-31 22:41:17 +0200 |
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Slackware 13.0slackware-13.0
Wed Aug 26 10:00:38 CDT 2009
Slackware 13.0 x86_64 is released as stable! Thanks to everyone who
helped make this release possible -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for the
credits. The ISOs are off to the replicator. This time it will be a
6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We're taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com. Please consider
picking up a copy to help support the project. Once again, thanks to
the entire Slackware community for all the help testing and fixing
things and offering suggestions during this development cycle.
As always, have fun and enjoy! -P.
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diff --git a/slackbook/html/package-management-making-packages.html b/slackbook/html/package-management-making-packages.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f58127753 --- /dev/null +++ b/slackbook/html/package-management-making-packages.html @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> +<head> +<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org" /> +<title>Making Packages</title> +<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7" /> +<link rel="HOME" title="Slackware Linux Essentials" href="index.html" /> +<link rel="UP" title="Slackware Package Management" href="package-management.html" /> +<link rel="PREVIOUS" title="Package Utilities" +href="package-management-package-utilities.html" /> +<link rel="NEXT" title="Making Tags and Tagfiles (for setup)" +href="package-management-making-tags-and-tagfiles.html" /> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="docbook.css" /> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> +</head> +<body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" +alink="#0000FF"> +<div class="NAVHEADER"> +<table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<th colspan="3" align="center">Slackware Linux Essentials</th> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a +href="package-management-package-utilities.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 18 Slackware Package +Management</td> +<td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a +href="package-management-making-tags-and-tagfiles.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +</div> + +<div class="SECT1"> +<h1 class="SECT1"><a id="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-MAKING-PACKAGES" +name="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-MAKING-PACKAGES">18.3 Making Packages</a></h1> + +<p>Making Slackware packages can be either easy or difficult. There is no specific method +for building a package. The only requirement is that the package be a tar gzipped file +and if there is a postinstallation script, it must be <tt +class="FILENAME">/install/doinst.sh</tt>.</p> + +<p>If you are interested in making packages for your system or for a network that you +manage, you should have a look at the various build scripts in the Slackware source tree. +There are several methods we use for making packages.</p> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<h2 class="SECT2"><a id="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-EXPLODEPKG" +name="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-EXPLODEPKG">18.3.1 <tt class="COMMAND">explodepkg</tt></a></h2> + +<p><tt class="COMMAND">explodepkg</tt>(8) will do the same thing that <tt +class="COMMAND">installpkg</tt> does to extract the package, but it doesn't actually +install it and it doesn't record it in the packages database. It simply extracts it to +the current directory.</p> + +<p>If you look at the Slackware source tree, you will see how we use this command for +“framework” packages. These packages contain a skeleton of what the final +package will look like. They hold all the necessary filenames (zero-length), permissions, +and ownerships. The build script will cat the package contents from the source directory +to the package build directory.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<h2 class="SECT2"><a id="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-MAKEPKG" +name="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-MAKEPKG">18.3.2 <tt class="COMMAND">makepkg</tt></a></h2> + +<p><tt class="COMMAND">makepkg</tt>(8) will package up the current directory into a valid +Slackware package. It will search the tree for any symbolic links and add a creation +block to the postinstallation script for creating them during the package install. It +also warns of any zero-length files in the package tree.</p> + +<p>This command is typically run after you have created your package tree.</p> +</div> + +<div class="SECT2"> +<h2 class="SECT2"><a id="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-SLACKBUILD-SCRIPTS" +name="PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT-SLACKBUILD-SCRIPTS">18.3.3 SlackBuild Scripts</a></h2> + +<p>Slackware packages are built in many different ways by necessity. Not all software +packages are written by their programmers to compile the same way. Many have compile time +options that are not all included in the packages Slackware uses. Perhaps you need some +of this functionality; you'll need to compile your own package then. Fortunately for many +Slackware packages, you can find SlackBuild scripts in the package's source code.</p> + +<p>So what is a SlackBuild script? SlackBuild scripts are executable shell scripts that +you run as <tt class="USERNAME">root</tt> to configure, compile, and create Slackware +packages. You can freely modify these scripts in the source directory and run them to +create your own versions of the default Slackware packages.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<div class="NAVFOOTER"> +<hr align="LEFT" width="100%" /> +<table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" +cellspacing="0"> +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a +href="package-management-package-utilities.html" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="index.html" +accesskey="H">Home</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a +href="package-management-making-tags-and-tagfiles.html" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">Package Utilities</td> +<td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href="package-management.html" +accesskey="U">Up</a></td> +<td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Making Tags and Tagfiles (for setup)</td> +</tr> +</table> +</div> +</body> +</html> + |