Devtools - development tools for Arch Linux

This repository contains tools for the Arch Linux distribution for building and maintaining official repository packages.

Patches

Patches can be send to arch-projects@archlinux.org or via a pull request on Github. When sending patches to the mailing list make sure to set a valid subjectprefix otherwise the email is denied by mailman. Git can be configured as following.

git config format.subjectprefix 'devtools] [PATCH'

Building

When building official distro packages the BUILDTOOLVER needs to be set to the exact label of the release package in order to allow to detect the exactly used devtools version. This is required for reproducible builds to fetch the according files like makepkg.conf.

BUILDTOOLVER="${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-${arch}" make all

Releasing

1. bump the version in the Makefile
2. Commit everything as Version $(date +"%Y%m%d")
3. Create a new tag git tag -s $(date +"%Y%m%d")
4. Push changes
5. Upload the source tarball with make dist upload
6. Update the package

License

Devtools is licensed under the terms of the GPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSE).