Arch Build System
ABS is a system that automates the building of packages from source code; it uses makepkg to build packages based on information in PKGBUILD, and pacman to install them.
Install
Install asp to use ABS.
sudo pacman -S asp
Usage (kernel build)
The following is an example of how to build a kernel. Create build/ as a working directory.
mkdir build
cd build
Download the PKGBUILD for the Linux kernel.
asp update linux
asp export linux
Modify PKGBUILD to rename the package and prevent it from generating documentation.
cd linux
vim PKGBUILD
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< pkgbase=linux
---
> pkgbase=linux-custom
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< make htmldocs
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< pkgname=("$pkgbase" "$pkgbase-headers" "$pkgbase-docs")
---
> pkgname=("$pkgbase" "$pkgbase-headers")
Use the following command to download the source code.
makepkg -so
.
├── archlinux-linux
│ ├── branches
│ ├── config
│ ├── description
│ ├── FETCH_HEAD
│ ├── HEAD
│ ├── hooks
│ ├── info
│ ├── objects
│ ├── packed-refs
│ └── refs
├── config
├── PKGBUILD
├── sphinx-workaround.patch
└── src
├── archlinux-linux <- Kernel source code here
├── config -> /home/mori/kernelbuild/linux/config
└── sphinx-workaround.patch -> /home/mori/kernelbuild/linux/sphinx-workaround.patch
Build kernel package with makepkg as shown below, and install it with pacman.
makepkg -se # Additionally 'f' option needed when overwrite pkg
sudo pacman -U linux-custom-[version].arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst linux-custom-headers-[version].arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst