.\" $OpenBSD: pkg_create.1,v 1.127 2022/11/09 10:10:53 espie Exp $ .\" .\" Documentation and design originally from FreeBSD. All the code has .\" been rewritten since. We keep the documentation's notice: .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" .\" Jordan K. Hubbard .\" .\" .\" hacked up by John Kohl for NetBSD--fixed a few bugs, extended keywords, .\" added dependency tracking, etc. .\" .\" [jkh] Took John's changes back and made some additional extensions for .\" better integration with FreeBSD's new ports collection. .\" .Dd $Mdocdate: November 9 2022 $ .Dt PKG_CREATE 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm pkg_create .Nd create binary software package for distribution .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm pkg_create .Bk -words .Op Fl mnQqSvx .Op Fl A Ar arches .Op Fl B Ar pkg-destdir .Op Fl D Ar name Ns Op = Ns Ar value .Op Fl L Ar localbase .Op Fl M Ar displayfile .Op Fl P Ar pkgpath : Ns Ar pkgspec : Ns Ar default .Op Fl U Ar undisplayfile .Op Fl u Ar userlist .Op Fl V Ar n .Op Fl W Ar libspec .Fl d Ar desc .Fl D Ar COMMENT Ns = Ns Ar value .Fl D Ar FULLPKGPATH Ns = Ns Ar value .Fl D Ar PORTSDIR Ns = Ns Ar value .Fl f Ar packinglist .Fl p Ar prefix .Ar pkg-name .Ek .Nm pkg_create .Fl f Ar packinglist .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm command is normally used to create a binary package named .Ar pkg-name , for subsequent use with .Xr pkg_add 1 , .Xr pkg_delete 1 and .Xr pkg_info 1 . .Ar pkg-name will traditionally have a .Dq .tgz extension, to denote the underlying binary format. .Ar pkg-name must follow .Xr packages-specs 7 . .Pp Use of the .Xr ports 7 infrastructure instead of manual .Nm invocation is strongly recommended. .Pp .Nm can also be used to recreate a binary package from an existing installation. .Pp During package creation, .Nm replaces too long file names with smaller equivalents .Po see .Xr package 5 .Pc , records extra information in the packing-list, such as the existence of symlinks and hard links, computes and stores file checksums, and verifies that all special objects are properly annotated in the packing-list. .Pp It will also check all required shared libraries for reachability, by looking into all installed dependencies. It may also ask the ports tree for extra dependencies, provided some other dependency refers to the same .Ev BASE_PKGPATH .Po see .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 .Pc . The rationale is that those libraries must already be present for the package to build correctly, and thus be reachable through the subset of dependencies that are not pure .Ev RUN_DEPENDS . .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl A Ar arches Register a list of architectures for which this package should install. .Ar arches is a comma-separated list of architectures. Use .Sq * to mean any architecture (e.g., arch-independent packages). .It Fl B Ar pkg-destdir Set .Ar pkg-destdir as the prefix to prepend to any file to select for the package. .It Fl D Ar name Ns Op = Ns Ar value Define .Ar name to .Ar value (or just define it) for substitution and fragment inclusion purposes. Some specific .Ar names have extra meaning, see .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 and .Xr package 5 for details: .Pp .Bl -tag -width FULLPKGPATH -compact .It Cm CDROM Set to the port's Makefile .Va PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM . .It Cm COMMENT Set package .Dq one line description (mandatory). .It Cm HISTORY_DIR Record checksums of files in permanent location .Pa ${HISTORY_DIR}/${FULLPKGPATH:S,/,./g} . .It Cm FTP Set to the port's Makefile .Va PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP . .It Cm FULLPKGPATH Location in the ports tree, mandatory for updates to work .Po see .Xr pkg_add 1 .Pc . .It Cm HOMEPAGE If defined, appended to the description. .It Cm MAINTAINER If defined, appended to the description. .It Cm NO_TS_IN_PLIST If set, disable the .Cm @ts annotations in the generated package, rely on the normal .Xr tar 1 timestamps instead. .It Cm USE_GROFF Set to 1 to have groff format manpages behind the scenes during package creation. .It Cm REVISION_CHECK , EPOCH_CHECK , FLAVOR_LIST_CHECK Set automatically by .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 to values that help .Nm catch a few errors in package naming. .El .It Fl d Oo Fl Oc Ns Ar desc Fetch long description for package from file .Ar desc or, if preceded by .Sq - , the argument itself. .It Fl f Ar packinglist Fetch .Dq packing-list for package from the file .Ar packinglist . Several packing-lists can be mentioned, in which case they will be concatenated together. .It Fl L Ar localbase Record .Ar localbase as the localbase used in the package .Po By default, .Pa /usr/local .Pc . Packages built with another localbase can only be installed by using the same localbase in .Xr pkg_add 1 , to prevent errors. .It Fl M Ar displayfile Display the file (using .Xr more 1 ) after installing the package. Useful for things like legal notices on almost-free software, etc. .It Fl m Causes .Nm to always display the progress meter in cases it would not do so by default. .It Fl n Don't actually create a package. .It Fl P Ar pkgpath : Ns Ar pkgspec : Ns Ar default Declare a dependency on a package matching .Ar pkgspec .Pq see Xr packages-specs 7 . An appropriate package must be installed before this package may be installed, and that package must be deinstalled before this package is deinstalled. The dependency also contains a .Ar pkgpath .Po see .Xr pkgpath 7 .Pc and a .Ar default package name, in case there is no listing of available packages. .Pp As a special case, .Sq = may be used as a .Ar pkgspec , to match the .Ar default version exactly. .It Fl p Ar prefix Set .Ar prefix as the initial directory .Dq base to start from in selecting files for the package, and to record as the base for installing the package. .It Fl Q Print out the files in the actual packing-list of the package being generated, with explicit typing .Pq e.g. Cm @file , @lib , ... . .It Fl q Print out the actual packing-list of the package being generated (query mode). Most often used in combination with .Fl n . .It Fl S Print the update signature of the package. See .Xr pkg_info 1 . .It Fl U Ar undisplayfile Display the file (using .Xr more 1 ) when deinstalling the package. Useful for reminders about stuff to clean up. .It Fl u Ar userlist Check all .Cm @newuser and .Cm @newgroup statements against a .Ar userlist file .Po usually .Pa ${PORTSDIR}/infrastructure/db/user.list .Pc and error out for entries not registered in that file. Also error out if the file is incoherent. .It Fl V Ar n Adds .Ar n to the .Sq global system version of the package .Po see .Xr package 5 .Pc . The default value of 0 is not recorded, thus packages without .Cm @version have an implicit version of 0. .It Fl v Turn on verbose output. .It Fl W Ar libspec Package needs a shared library to work. .Ar libspec is .Sq name.major.minor or .Sq path/name.major.minor . The package won't be installed unless a library with the same name, the exact same major number and at least the same minor number can be located. A library without path is searched through dependent packages under the same .Ar localbase , then in the system libraries under .Pa /usr/lib and .Pa /usr/X11R6/lib . A library with a path is only searched through dependent packages, that path being relative to .Ar localbase . .It Fl x Disable progress meter. .El .Pp .Nm can also be invoked with only the packing-list from an installed package. It will recreate the corresponding binary package in the current directory from the installation, or error out if any problem is found. For example, the following will recreate a .Pa kdelibs-3.4.3.tgz package: .Bd -literal -offset indent pkg_create -f /var/db/pkg/kdelibs-3.4.3/+CONTENTS .Ed .Sh PACKING-LIST DETAILS The .Dq packing-list format (see .Fl f ) is fairly simple, being basically a list of filenames and directory names to include in the package. .Pp Substitution of variables and inclusion of fragments is documented in the next section. .Pp Directory names are denoted by a trailing slash. .Pp There are some annotations that can be inserted for better control. All these commands start with an .Sq @ . The following annotations can be inserted manually (but commonly .Xr update-plist 1 is used for creating most packing-list contents): .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact .It Cm @ask-update Ar pkgspec message Mechanism to prevent unwanted updates. If the new package is installed as part of an update matching .Ar pkgspec , the .Ar message will be displayed to the user. In non-interactive mode, the update will abort. Otherwise, the user will have a chance to proceed. Automated updates can be done by using .Fl D Ar update_stem , with .Ar stem the stem of the .Ar pkgspec . Classical use case for postgresql: .Bd -literal -offset 3n @ask-update postgresql-server-<8 Make sure your existing database is backed up .Ed .Pp Use very sparingly. Most cases that seem to require manual updates just require a bit more thought. .Pp .It Cm @bin Ar filename Describe the file as an .Ox binary executable (not a script). .Pp .It Cm @comment Ar string Place a comment in the packing-list. Useful in trying to document some particularly hairy sequence that may trip someone up later. Can also be used to comment out elements that update-plist .Pq see Xr bsd.port.mk 5 will insist in inserting in a packing-list. .Pp The special comment .Cm @comment no checksum can be used to tag the next file as special: even though its characteristics will be recorded in the package, it can be altered after installation, and .Xr pkg_delete 1 will still delete it. .Pp The special comment .Cm @comment no debug can be used to tag the next file as special: even though it might be a binary, it has no debug info .Po see .Xr build-debug-info 1 .Pc . .Pp .It Cm @conflict Ar pkgspec Declare a conflict with packages matching .Ar pkgspec .Pq see Xr packages-specs 7 . The .Ar pkgname package can .Em not be installed if a package matching .Ar pkgspec has been installed because they install the same files and thus conflict. .Pp .It Cm @cwd Ar pathname Set the package current directory. All subsequent filenames will be assumed relative to .Ar pathname . .Pp .It Cm @dir Ar directoryname Create directory .Ar directoryname at .Xr pkg_add 1 time, taking .Cm @mode , .Cm @group , and .Cm @owner into account, and remove it during .Xr pkg_delete 1 . Directories to remove can be shared between packages. If .Ar name does not begin with an @, same as .Dl name/ .Pp .It Cm @define-tag Ar tag mode params Define a tag of name .Ar tag . Tags define actions to be performed at specific time during .Xr pkg_add 1 and .Xr pkg_delete 1 . A given tag may be defined several times with additional properties. Currently, the following modes are defined: .Bl -tag -width abc -compact .It Ar at-end if the tag occurs in any dependency, the given command .Ar params is executed at the end, similar to .Cm @exec commands. .Pp The .Cm "\&%D" escape sequence stands for localbase. .Pp Actual tags may themselves contain parameters, so the .Ar params list recognizes two additional escape sequences: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm "\&%l" list of tag parameters, in a random order, with duplicates removed. .It Cm "\&%u" execute the command once for each distinct tag parameter. .El .Pp As a special case, deleting the package that contains the .Cm @define-tag will work differently: If that .Cm @tag is present in the same package as the .Cm @define-tag , then it will be run when encountered, presumably before the command itself has been deleted. If that .Cm @tag is not present, the command won't be run at all, since the package has been deleted from the file system, and usually cleaning up only requires removing index files. .Pp .It Ar supersedes If the given tag is found in dependencies, it supersedes the other tag given in the same line. For instance: .Bd -literal -offset indent @define-tag mktexlsr at-end mktexlsr @define-tag mktexlsr-local at-end mktexlsr texmf-local @define-tag mktexlsr supersedes mktexlsr-local .Ed .Pp Here, the tag .Ar mktexlsr rebuilds every texmf directory index, whereas .Ar mktexlsr-local only rebuilds the local texmf directory index, so if both tags are seen, only the global command will be run. .El .Pp .It Cm @exec Ar command Execute .Ar command during .Xr pkg_add 1 . Note that .Cm @exec commands are executed relative to their location in the packing-list, so they can rely on any data that have already been extracted, but not on anything that is listed after them. Some special elements, such as new users and new groups, are always created first, so that .Cm @exec can rely on them. .Pp .Xr pkg_add 1 and .Xr pkg_delete 1 set the .Ev PATH to a predictable value: .Bd -literal -offset indent /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:${LOCALBASE}/bin:${LOCALBASE}/sbin .Ed .Pp during execution. .Pp If .Ar command contains any of the following sequences somewhere in it, they will be expanded inline. For the following examples, assume that .Cm @cwd is set to .Pa /usr/local and the last extracted file was .Pa bin/emacs . .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm "\&%B" Expands to the .Dq basename of the fully qualified filename, that is the current directory prefix, plus the last filespec, minus the trailing filename. In the example case, that would be .Pa /usr/local/bin . .It Cm "\&%D" Expands to the current directory prefix, as set with .Cm @cwd ; in the example case .Pa /usr/local . .It Cm "\&%F" Expands to the last filename extracted (as specified); in the example case, .Pa bin/emacs . .It Cm "\&%f" Expands to the .Dq filename part of the fully qualified name, or the converse of .Cm \&%B ; in the example case, .Pa emacs . .El .Pp .It Cm @exec-always Ar command Synonym of .Cm @exec . .Pp .It Cm @exec-add Ar command Similar to .Cm @exec , except it only gets executed during new installations, and not during updates. .Pp .It Cm @exec-update Ar command Similar to .Cm @exec , except it only gets executed during updates, and not during new installations. .Pp .It Cm @extra Ar filename Declare extra file .Ar filename to be deleted at deinstall time, if user sets the .Fl c option. Those files are extra configuration files that are normally not deleted. .Ar filename can be an absolute path. If .Ar filename ends with a slash, it is a directory. .Pp .It Cm @extraunexec Ar command Extra .Ar command to execute when removing extra files. .Pp .It Cm @file Ar filename Default annotation, to use if .Ar filename begins with @. .Ar filename is always a relative path, relative to the current .Cm @cwd . .Pp .It Cm @fontdir Ar directoryname Specialized version of .Cm @dir , to handle font directories: create .Pa font.alias from .Pa font.alias-* fragments, execute .Xr mkfontdir 1 , .Xr mkfontscale 1 and .Xr fc-cache 1 when needed. Delete extra files at .Xr pkg_delete 1 time. .Pp .It Cm @group Ar group Set default group ownership for all subsequently extracted files to .Ar group . Use without an arg to set back to default (extraction) group ownership. .Pp .It Cm @info Ar filename Specialized version of .Cm @file , to handle GNU info files. Automatically grab .Ar filename Ns -* chapter files, run .Xr install-info 1 as needed. .Pp .It Cm @lib Ar filename Specialized version of .Cm @file , to handle shared libraries. Satisfy LIB_DEPENDS and WANTLIB, run .Xr ldconfig 8 as needed. See .Sq VARIABLE SUBSTITUTION AND FRAGMENT INCLUSION for some details. .Pp .It Cm @man Ar filename Specialized version of .Cm @file , to handle manual pages. .Pp .It Cm @mandir Ar directoryname Specialized version of .Cm @dir , to handle manual directories: instruct user to add/remove the directory to .Xr man.conf 5 , remove .Xr apropos 1 database when needed. .Pp .It Cm @mode Ar mode Set default permission for all subsequently extracted files to .Ar mode . Format is the same as that used by the .Xr chmod 1 command. Use without an arg to set back to default (extraction) permissions. .Pp .It Cm @newgroup Ar name : Ns Ar gid During .Xr pkg_add 1 , create a new group, using .Xr groupadd 8 . Happens before file and user creations. .Ar gid can be prefixed with a .Sq !\& to ensure group has the correct GID. During .Xr pkg_delete 1 , groups will be deleted if extra clean-up has been requested, and if other installed packages don't list the same group. .Pp .It Xo .Cm @newuser .Sm off .Ar name : .Ar uid : .Ar group : .Ar loginclass : .Ar comment : .Ar home : .Ar shell .Sm on .Xc During .Xr pkg_add 1 , create a new user. Happens before any file creation. All fields correspond to .Xr useradd 8 parameters. Some fields are optional and can be left empty. If the user already exists, no action is taken. Individual fields can be prefixed by a .Sq !\& to make sure an existing user matches. For instance, the directive .Li @newuser foo:!42 will make sure user foo has UID 42. During .Xr pkg_delete 1 , users will be deleted if extra clean-up has been requested, and if other installed packages don't list the same user. .Pp .It Cm @option Ar name Effects vary depending on .Ar name . These are the user settable options .Bl -tag -width indent .It Cm always-update By default, .Xr pkg_add 1 uses some simplified information to decide whether an installed package needs updating. With this option, the package will be updated whenever anything changes. .Pp This is meant to be used by packages containing information relating to the whole ports tree, like sqlports, quirks, pkglocatedb. .It Cm is-branch Annotate the few rare ports where several branches are present in the ports tree (such as autoconf), to help .Xr pkg_info 1 produce .Ar stem Ns % Ns Ar branch annotations when needed. .It Cm no-default-conflict By default, a package conflicts with other versions of the same package. With this option, the older package version will still be noticed, but the installation will proceed anyway. .El .Pp .It Cm @owner Ar user Set default ownership for all subsequently extracted files to .Ar user . Use without an arg to set back to default (extraction) ownership. .Pp .It Cm @pkgpath Ar pkgpath Declare a secondary .Ar pkgpath for the package. This is used for updates: .Nm pkg_add .Fl u normally checks that the .Ar pkgpath embedded in the package corresponds to the old package, to solve ambiguities when packages with similar names are involved. When ports get renamed, or flavors change, extra .Cm @pkgpath annotations can help .Nm pkg_add get a sense of continuity. Note that these .Ar pkgpath can take extra optional components, to allow the matching of several flavors at once, and are order independent. For instance, .Bd -literal -offset indent @pkgpath some/dir,f1,f2 .Ed .Pp and .Bd -literal -offset indent @pkgpath some/dir,f2,f2,f1 .Ed .Pp are equivalent. .Bd -literal -offset indent @pkgpath some/dir,f1[,f2,f3][,f4] .Ed .Pp will match all pkgpaths to some/dir with flavor f1, and optionally f4, and optionally both f2 and f3, e.g., .Ar some/dir,f1,f4 , .Ar some/dir,f1,f2,f3 , .Ar some/dir,f1,f2,f3,f4 , .Ar some/dir,f1 would match, but .Ar some/dir,f1,f5 , .Ar some/dir,f2,f3 , .Ar some/dir,f1,f2,f4 would not. .Pp Each binary package contains a set of pkgpaths: the primary pkgpath that was used to build the package, recorded as .Cm @comment Ar pkgpath=some/path , and secondary pkgpaths as recorded through .Cm @pkgpath . .Pp In order for two packages to match, their primary pkgpaths must match, or a secondary pkgpath must match the other package's primary pkgpath. .Pp .It Cm @rcscript Ar filename Script for the .Pa /etc/rc.d framework. Contrary to .Cm @file , absolute paths are okay, e.g., .Bd -literal -offset indent @rcscript ${RCDIR}/ballsd .Ed .Pp In this case, performs an implicit .Cm @cwd to .Pa ${RCDIR} . .Pp .It Cm @sample Ar filename Last preceding .Cm @file item is a sample configuration file, to be copied to .Ar filename at .Xr pkg_add 1 time and to be removed at .Xr pkg_delete 1 time. During installation, existing configuration files are untouched. During deinstallation, configuration files are only removed if unchanged. .Ar filename can be an absolute path. If .Ar filename ends with a slash, it refers to a configuration directory instead. .Pp .It Cm @shell Ar filename Specialized version of .Cm @file , to handle shells. See .Xr shells 5 . .Pp .It Cm @so Ar filename Describe the file as an .Ox shared object. .Pp .It Cm @static-lib Ar filename Describe the file as a .Ox static library. .Pp .It Cm @unexec Ar command Execute .Ar command during .Xr pkg_delete 1 . .Ev PATH and expansion of special .Cm \&% sequences are the same as for .Cm @exec . Note that .Cm @unexec commands are executed relative to their location in the packing-list, so they cannot rely on any data that has already been deleted, thus they should occur before the files they need to function. Some special elements, such as new users and new groups, are always deleted last, so that .Cm @unexec can rely on them. .Pp .It Cm @tag Ar name Op Ar parameter Reference a tag of given .Ar name . The corresponding .Cm @define-tag definition must be accessible through the dependency tree. .Ar parameter is amenable to the same substitutions as .Cm @exec . .Pp .It Cm @unexec-always Ar command Synonym of .Cm @unexec . .Pp .It Cm @unexec-delete Ar command Similar to .Cm @unexec , except it only gets executed during true deletions and not while removing an old package during updates. .Pp .It Cm @unexec-update Ar command Similar to .Cm @unexec , except it only gets executed while removing an old package during updates, and not during true deletions. .El .Pp The .Cm @bin , .Cm @lib , .Cm @so and .Cm @static-lib annotations are used by the debug packages infrastructure to figure out which files may contain debug information. .Pp Some of these annotations define information that are local to each port but global to the package ecosystem in general, and thus make it into the package locate database by default .Po for instance: .Cm @define-tag , .Cm @newuser and .Cm @newgroup .Pc . See .Xr pkg_mklocatedb 1 for details. .Pp See .Xr package 5 for other internal annotations that are automatically added by the package tools. .Sh VARIABLE SUBSTITUTION AND FRAGMENT INCLUSION In packing-lists, installation, deinstallation and requirement scripts, description and message files, constructs like .Li ${VAR} will be replaced with the variable value, according to .Fl D Ar name Ns = Ns Ar value options. .Pp In particular, shared library versions should never be mentioned explicitly in a packing-list. Shared library .Sq foo will take its version number from .Ev LIBfoo_VERSION . The ports framework normally takes care of all details, see .Ev SHARED_LIBS in .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 . .Pp Constructs like .Li %%VAR%% and .Li !%%VAR%% trigger fragment inclusion. If such a line is encountered in a packing-list, the corresponding variable must be defined to 0 or 1. If the variable's value is 1, .Li %%VAR%% will be replaced by the corresponding positive fragment, and .Li !%%VAR%% will be ignored. If the variable's value is 0, .Li %%VAR%% will be ignored, and .Li !%%VAR%% will be replaced by the corresponding positive fragment. .Pp A fragment is an auxiliary packing-list file, whose name is derived from the current packing-list, and the variable name .Va VAR triggering the inclusion: .Pa pkg/PLIST yields a positive fragment .Pa pkg/PFRAG.VAR and a negative fragment .Pa pkg/PFRAG.no-VAR , .Pa pkg/PLIST-FOO yields a positive fragment .Pa pkg/PFRAG.VAR-foo and a negative fragment .Pa pkg/PFRAG.no-VAR-foo . .Pp Fragments can be included inside fragments, so that .Li %%VAR2%% inside .Pa pkg/PFRAG.VAR triggers the inclusion of .Pa pkg/PFRAG.VAR2-VAR and .Li !%%VAR2%% triggers the inclusion of .Pa pkg/PFRAG.no-VAR2-VAR . .Pp If a positive or a negative fragment file does not exist, the corresponding inclusion will be ignored. However, if both the positive and negative fragment files do not exist, .Nm will error out, to make it easier to spot fragment names errors. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pkg_add 1 , .Xr pkg_delete 1 , .Xr pkg_info 1 , .Xr pkg_sign 1 , .Xr tar 1 , .Xr bsd.port.mk 5 , .Xr package 5 , .Xr packages-specs 7 , .Xr pkgpath 7 , .Xr ports 7 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm command first appeared in .Fx . .Sh AUTHORS .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It An Jordan Hubbard initial design .It An Marc Espie complete rewrite. .El