Crux
The Linux distribution of my choice is Crux,
a wonderful simple and effective, source based system. It requires some experience, however,
or at least the willingness to deal with configuration problems.
pkgmk
The central part of the Crux package management is the script pkgmk. As
I missed some features in the official script, I wrote an own version which supplies
the following additions:
- If a source URL (an element of the array
source) contains a query string,
i.e. a suffix starting with ?, the last path component before the question
mark is used as the local filename. The official version includes the query string
into the filename.
- If an array
filename is defined in Pkgfile, the elements if this
array will be used as local filenames after download.
Example (rox):
In the original version the file would be named download. This way the frequent
problems with Sourceforge downloads can be solved, and also
URL that doesn't point to the file itself, but to a php script or similar, may be used.
- Additional option:
-nu or --no-unpack. The source archive
will not be unpacked, but the package will be created in an existing work
directory. This can be useful while testing a new package.
- Additional option:
-da or --download-always. The source
will always be downloaded. Can be used when the remote source
file changes frequently, but keeps the same name.
- Additional option:
-bp param or
--build-param param. The parameter
param will be supplied to the (originally parameterless) function
build. This allows creating different variants of a package without
changing Pkgfile.
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