On 31-01-2023 10:10, Polarian wrote:

Hello,

I have two questions, I merged it into one post to prevent people complaining about Polarian Notifications (aka me popping up on their email every 5 mins).

Does anyone have a good reference I can use to properly make a multi-package PKGBUILD, I have no experience doing this and I want to stick to conventions, and the PKGBUILD ArchWiki page does not seem to cover it.

Secondly, is it possible to create PKG groups within the AUR, I would like to group a few packages together, but I am unsure if I am allowed, or able to do this, unless it is added to an official repository.

Thanks,

Hi,

Those are 2 questions that have very little in common . I'll focus on the multi-package part.

Split / multi-package PKGBUILDs are a solution to a problem.

Any PKGBUILD with one package function (singular) can be transformed into a split package.

However if the singular PKGBUILD has no problems, there's no need to do that.

Incase a split package can not be transformed back into a singular PKGBUILD, that package should probably not be written as a split package but  as separate multiple packages.

One example :

Programs using llvm as compiler need all of it at compiletime, but at runtime they only need a small part of it to function .

Upstream didn't distinguish beteen compiletime & runtime parts, archlinux devs decided to split the runtime parts off to a separate package.

look up llvm & llvm-libs in [extra].

LW