Creating a package

See also: Creating and using your own repository

Shoppe stores package information in a file named shoppepkg. This file acts simmilarily to Alpine's APKBUILD or Arch's PKGBUILD - it contains the build and installation instructions, but not the package data itself.

To make a package, make your own local repository (see link at the beggining of this page) for testing.

Next, you have to decide which architecture your package is for.

• If it is architecture independent, or available for all architectures, the architecture will be all.
  • Note: If your package requires separate prebuilt files for each architecture, put archdependent="true" in your shoppepkg.
• If it only works on certain architectures, the architecture will be the same as its name in the uname -m output.
  • Note: 32x (i*86) is automatically set to i686.

Create a folder named just like your package. Then, in your newly created package directory, make the shoppepkg file. Now you have to fill in the important info. Use this file as a template.

Assuming you filled the template properly and you added your repository, you should now be able to install the package.

To create a prebuilt package, pass the +pm switch to Shoppe, then move the prebuilt package to your package directory and rename it to content.tar.gz. (NOTE: There will be an easier way to do this in shoppe-pkgutils, so stay tuned!)

(TODO: shoppe-pkgutils)