Re: [aur-general] Building a package from a currently installed program

25 Nov 2012

      The day was 25/11/12 21:15 when , Storm Dragon had this to say......:
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Hi,
I have searched for this and not found anything, but it seems like it should be possible. Is there a way to package a currently installed program? I have a friend who is having trouble with a new Arch install getting Orca working. I know for sure my version of Orca is working, so I wanted to package it for him, send it to him, and let him instal with pacman. I'm just not sure how to do it. Of course, if my version of Orca works on his install that means there is a bug somewhere, but he needs it to be working in order to access information to file a bug lol,  kind of a catch 22.
Thanks
Storm
I found this a while ago, I haven't tried it for a while though so I'm 
not sure if it still works with the newer Pacman
Simon

#!/bin/bash
#
#   bacman: recreate a package from a running system
#   This script rebuilds an already installed package using metadata
#   stored into the pacman database and system files
#
#   (c) 2008 - locci 
#
#   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#   (at your option) any later version.
#
#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#   GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#   along with this program.  If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
#

shopt -s extglob
shopt -s nullglob

readonly progname="bacman"
readonly progver="0.2.1"

#
# User Friendliness
#
usage() {
	echo "This program recreates a package using pacman's db and system files"
	echo "Usage:   $progname <installed package name>"
	echo "Example: $progname kernel26"
}

if (( $# != 1 )); then
	usage
	exit 1
fi

if [[ $1 == "--help" || $1 == "-h" ]]; then
	usage
	exit 0
fi

if [[ $1 == "--version" || $1 == "-v" ]]; then
	echo "$progname version $progver"
	echo "Copyright (C) 2008 locci"
	exit 0
fi

#
# Fakeroot support
#
if (( EUID )); then
	if [[ -f /usr/bin/fakeroot ]]; then
		echo "Entering fakeroot environment"
		export INFAKEROOT="1"
		/usr/bin/fakeroot -u -- "$0" "$@"
		exit $?
	else
		echo "WARNING: installing fakeroot or running ${progname} as root is required to"
		echo "         preserve the ownership permissions of files in some packages"
		echo ""
	fi
fi

#
# Setting environmental variables
#
if [[ ! -r /etc/pacman.conf ]]; then
	echo "ERROR: unable to read /etc/pacman.conf"
	exit 1
fi

eval $(awk '/DBPath/ {print $1$2$3}' /etc/pacman.conf)
pac_db="${DBPath:-/var/lib/pacman/}/local"

if [[ ! -r /etc/makepkg.conf ]]; then
	echo "ERROR: unable to read /etc/makepkg.conf"
	exit 1
fi

source "/etc/makepkg.conf"
if [[ -r ~/.makepkg.conf ]]; then
	source ~/.makepkg.conf
fi

pkg_arch=${CARCH:-'unknown'}
pkg_dest="${PKGDEST:-$PWD}"
pkg_pkger=${PACKAGER:-'Unknown Packager'}

pkg_name="$1"
pkg_dir=("$pac_db/$pkg_name"-+([^-])-+([^-]))
pkg_namver=("${pkg_dir[@]##*/}")

#
# Checks everything is in place
#
if [[ ! -d $pac_db ]]; then
	echo "ERROR: pacman database directory ${pac_db} not found"
	exit 1
fi

if (( ${#pkg_dir[@]} != 1 )); then
	printf "ERROR: %d entries for package %s found in pacman database\n" \
		${#pkg_dir[@]} "${pkg_name}"
	printf "%s\n" "${pkg_dir[@]}"
	exit 1
fi

if [[ ! -d $pkg_dir ]]; then
	printf "ERROR: package %s is found in pacman database,\n" "${pkg_name}"
	printf "       but \`%s' is not a directory\n" "${pkg_dir}"
	exit 1
fi

#
# Begin
#
echo "Package: ${pkg_namver}"
work_dir=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir bacman.XXXXXXXXXX)
cd "$work_dir" || exit 1

#
# File copying
#
echo "Copying package files..."

cat "$pkg_dir"/files |
while read i; do
	if [[ -z $i ]]; then
		continue
	fi

	if [[ $i == %+([A-Z])% ]]; then
		current=$i
		continue
	fi

	case "$current" in
		%FILES%)
			ret=0
			if [[ -e /$i ]]; then
				bsdtar -cnf - "/$i" 2> /dev/null | bsdtar -xpf -

				# Workaround to bsdtar not reporting a missing file as an error
				if ! [[ -e $work_dir/$i || -L $work_dir/$i ]]; then
					echo ""
					echo "ERROR: unable to add /$i to the package"
					echo "       If your user does not have permssion to read this file then"
					echo "       you will need to run $progname as root"
					rm -rf "$work_dir"
					exit 1
				fi
			else
				echo ""
				echo "WARNING: package file /$i is missing"
				echo ""
			fi
			;;
	esac
done

ret=$?
if (( ret )); then
	rm -rf "$work_dir"
	exit 1
fi

pkg_size=$(du -sk | awk '{print $1 * 1024}')

#
# .PKGINFO stuff
# TODO adopt makepkg's write_pkginfo() into this or scripts/library
#
echo Generating .PKGINFO metadata...
echo "# Generated by $progname $progver"    > .PKGINFO
if [[ $INFAKEROOT == "1" ]]; then
	echo "# Using $(fakeroot -v)"    >> .PKGINFO
fi
echo "# $(LC_ALL=C date)"            >> .PKGINFO
echo "#"                    >> .PKGINFO

cat "$pkg_dir"/{desc,files} |
while read i; do
	if [[ -z $i ]]; then
		continue;
	fi

	if [[ $i == %+([A-Z])% ]]; then
		current=$i
		continue
	fi

	case "$current" in
		# desc
		%NAME%)
			echo "pkgname = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%VERSION%)
			echo "pkgver = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%DESC%)
			echo "pkgdesc = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%URL%)
			echo "url = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%LICENSE%)
			echo "license = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%ARCH%)
			echo "arch = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%BUILDDATE%)
			echo "builddate = $(date -u "+%s")"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%PACKAGER%)
			echo "packager = $pkg_pkger"        >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%SIZE%)
			echo "size = $pkg_size"        >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%GROUPS%)
			echo "group = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%REPLACES%)
			echo "replaces = $i"    >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%DEPENDS%)
			echo "depend = $i"   >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%OPTDEPENDS%)
			echo "optdepend = $i" >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%CONFLICTS%)
			echo "conflict = $i" >> .PKGINFO
			;;
		%PROVIDES%)
			echo "provides = $i"  >> .PKGINFO
			;;

		# files
		%BACKUP%)
			# strip the md5sum after the tab
			echo "backup = ${i%%$'\t'*}"   >> .PKGINFO
			;;
	esac
done

comp_files=".PKGINFO"

if [[ -f $pkg_dir/install ]]; then
	cp "$pkg_dir/install" "$work_dir/.INSTALL"
	comp_files+=" .INSTALL"
fi
if [[ -f $pkg_dir/changelog ]]; then
	cp "$pkg_dir/changelog" "$work_dir/.CHANGELOG"
	comp_files+=" .CHANGELOG"
fi

#
# Fixes owner:group and permissions for .PKGINFO, .CHANGELOG, .INSTALL
#
chown root:root "$work_dir"/{.PKGINFO,.CHANGELOG,.INSTALL} 2> /dev/null
chmod 644 "$work_dir"/{.PKGINFO,.CHANGELOG,.INSTALL} 2> /dev/null

#
# Generate the package
#
echo "Generating the package..."

pkg_file="$pkg_dest/$pkg_namver-$pkg_arch${PKGEXT}"
ret=0

# TODO: Maybe this can be set globally for robustness
shopt -s -o pipefail
bsdtar -cf - $comp_files * |
case "$PKGEXT" in
	*tar.gz)  gzip -c -f -n ;;
	*tar.bz2) bzip2 -c -f ;;
	*tar.xz)  xz -c -z - ;;
	*tar.Z)   compress -c -f ;;
	*tar)     cat ;;
	*) echo "WARNING: '%s' is not a valid archive extension." \
	"$PKGEXT" >&2; cat ;;
esac > "${pkg_file}"; ret=$?

if (( ret )); then
	echo "ERROR: unable to write package to $pkg_dest"
	echo "       Maybe the disk is full or you do not have write access"
	rm -rf "$work_dir"
	exit 1
fi

rm -rf "$work_dir"

echo Done

exit 0

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Re: [aur-general] Building a package from a currently installed program

Simon Stoakley