Pocket --- a compact package build system

Pocket provides a compact package building environment with non-privileged user access. It uses hasher-priv for environment isolation.

Architecture

All mainline procedures are implemented in one Pocketfile written in the GNU Make language. The Pocketfile is generated from a template which is modified based on the user configuration and given customization parameters. The resulting Pocketfile encapsulates the code, a particular configuration and inline documentation and can be used without pocket-special utils, requiring only make, UNIX core utils and hasher-priv for environment isolation. The only exception is the initial network bootstrap procedure which requires some additional utils, such as debootstrap for Debian chroot.

Pocketfile templates are selected based on the environment "flavour". Currently there is only one flavour --- "debian", --- providing a minimal Debian system for building .deb packages.

Useful utilities

pocket-build

Powerful script that performs:

• pocket preparing
• optional pocket cleaning
• a package build

It is the core of build process.

Options and arguments

$ pocket-build [options]

Available options:

• -h, --help Print help and exit
• -v, --verbose Print more useful information during work
• --dry-run Check input and print information about
• -r, --repos Set comma separated repository names list to use during build
• -m, --mount Overwrite comma separated list of host system mountpoints assigned in pocket configuration
• -C, --clean Full clear of chroot before build (for clean build)
• -c, Clear only all previously installed build depends before build
• --crepo, Additionaly clear internal repo before build
• --upg, Upgrade packages before build
• -d Set debian distribution name to build for (default:debian:jessie)
• -A, --all Build only arch independed packages (arch==all)
• -B, --any Build only arch depended packages (arch==any)
• -b, --bin Build only binary packages (arch==any|all)
• -S, --src Build only source packages
• -g, --allsrc Build only source & arch independed packages
• -G, --anysrc Build only source & arch depended packages
• -i, --indir Use this directory as source/input directory (default:.)
• -o, --outdir Use this directory as packages/output directory
• -P Overwrite pocket directory assigned in pocket configuration
• -j Limit number of CPU cores to use during build

Example of arches: armhf, i386, amd64

Local using

It is well when the scripts are installed in system from .deb package. But if you want to execute them without installation just call

    $ . pocket/local.env

Now you can call the scripts from any place.

Getting info

• pocket(1) and pocket-init(1) manpages;
• help and doc Pocketfile actions.

See also

• http://en.altlinux.org/Hasher