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useful commands while building an AUR package
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aurstuff.md

Start a new one

git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/package_name.git

Prototype files are in /usr/share/pacman

Tools

Generate md5sums

updpkgsums

Generate .SRCINFO

makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO

Check package sanity

namcap PKGBUILD

Install the package in chroot

Install devtools first. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot

extra-x86_64-build

test run the package build in order to see failing steps

updpkgsums && makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO && namcap PKGBUILD && makepkg -f

install the package

makepkg -i

Useful links

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