AUR-builder

A simple docker receipt to build AUR packages.

How

Prerequisites

You'll need just:

• docker
• GNU make
• git (to clone this repo).

Build

Clone this repo and run make:

git clone https://github.com/leophys/AUR-builder
cd AUR-builder
make compile
sudo make install

If you want to use the go package for the juicy stuff you'll need also go installed and you may eventually run:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/leophys/AUR-builder
cd AUR-builder
make TECH=go compile
sudo make install

Now look for the name of your sought AUR package (it should resolve to an existing https://aur.archlinux.org/the_package.git). Then build it:

aurbuilder the_package

If everything went smooth, you should find your build in /tmp/aurbuilder/the_package/the_package.x.y.z.pkg.tar.xz.

In case you are nasty, and chose the go path, you'll be given some more subcommands. Just ask for help:

aurbuilder --help

Why

I used to love pacaur. It is a great piece of software. Unfortunately it has been discontinued. Other AUR helpers wasn't as satisfactory as pacaur (I used bauerbill and pikaur, that are nice anyway, but they broke badly sometimes). Moreover I wanted ad environment to build packages that did not conflict with some other sistem-wide installed package (my case is the conflict between nodejs and nodejs-lts-carbon that is needed to build code).

Licence

I enjoyed very much GLWTS_Public_Licence. I'll stick to that (see LICENCE for details).