lfs.ports

What’s this ?

Ports package build collection for LFS / linux distro in general. It’s a collection of recipe to build package. Using Makefile and bsd.port.mk-like (I call it as lfs.port.mk). If you’re familiar with ports from openbsd & freebsd, you would easily recognize it. There are 4 build types, make, cmake, meson and custom.

How to use it ?

You could easily use it, but before that, you should have these requirements :

• wget, to download source code. You could change it with your tool downloader.
• build tools, like compiler (I use gcc mainly), make, meson, cmake.
• tar, to create tar.gz package archive.
• graft, to do grafting.
• text editor.
• patch, to do patching (if needed)

After you have those requirements, let’s build our package !

1. Copy lfs.port.mk to /usr/share/mk directory.

2. Pick a template package, for example iceauth.

3. Run these commands :

   	$ make download
   	$ make extract
   	$ make prepare
   	$ make build
   	$ make package
   

   Explanation :

   • make download, download source code.
   • make extract, extract source code.
   • make prepare, prepare build, like patching (if needed), edit the source code, etc.
   • make build, build package.
   • make package, create tar.gz package.

4. Once the package’s created, we can install it using mk package manager.

   	$ sudo /path/to/mk a P=1 PKG=iceauth-1.0.10-0@xapps.tar.gz
   

note : For more info about mk, you could read its documentation here.

Main repository & mirrors

Main repository : Github.

Mirrors :

• GitLab.
• Github.
• Github alternative.
• darcs.
• darcs alternative.
• codeberg.org.