confpkg

confpkg is a utility and a collection of bash-scripts to configure, build, and create txz-packages for Slackware Linux. It's designed to be run by an ordinary user with the help of fakeroot.

Usage

tar xf package-1.2.3.tar.gz    # unzip a source package
confpkg all package-1.2.3      # configure, make and create binary package-1.2.3.txz
confpkg installpkg package-1.2.3.txz # if $USER in group wheel and group wheel in /etc/sudoers

Installation

1. install fakeroot from source

   # source
   wget https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.31.orig.tar.gz
   tar xf fakeroot_1.31.orig.tar.gz    # fakeroot-1.31/
   cd fakeroot-1.31
   # patches
   wget https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.31-1.2.debian.tar.xz
   tar xf fakeroot_1.31-1.2.debian.tar.xz  # debian/
   while IFS= read -r patch; do
       patch -p1 <debian/patches/"$patch"
   done < <(cat debian/patches/series)
   # compile and install
   ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
       --mandir=/usr/man --docdir=/usr/doc/fakeroot-1.31 \
       --disable-static &&
       make && sudo make install
   # check
   fakeroot bash -c 'whoami'   # root

2. install confpkg

   mkdir -p ~/apps/confpkg
   git clone https://github.com/shamilbi/confpkg ~/apps/confpkg
   
   ln -sfn ~/apps/confpkg/confpkg ~/bin/   # if ~/bin in your PATH
   # or
   ln -sfn ~/apps/confpkg/confpkg ~/.local/bin/   # if ~/.local/bin in your PATH

Differences with pkgtools

1. All scripts are written for bash version 5 or higher, utilizing arrays and [[...]] blocks whenever possible.

2. The txz file includes an additional file located at /var/lib/pkgtools/ldd/<package>, which contains the output of running ldd (actually, objdump -p) on all binary files within the package (executed by a regular user, not root). This information is useful for tracking dependencies.

3. installpkg: The txz file is extracted to a temporary directory (/var/lib/pkgtools/setup/tmp/XXXXXX) rather than directly to the root directory (/). From this temporary location, all files except for links are copied to the root directory, followed by the copying of the links. Finally, the install/doinst.sh script is executed in the root directory, similar to the process in pkgtools.

   The file /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/<package> contains ALL files from the package, including links.

   To avoid being deleted by slackpkg, package names in /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/ must be different from the standard Slackware package names. For example:

   • Slackware: fmt-11.1.1-x86_64-1
   • confpkg: fmt-11.1.1