IPKGBUILD - A package build system for IPKG similar to RPM

IPKGBUILD was written to provide a standard way for building IPKG packages while using a well-known build system like RPM. Existing RPM package specs require only minimal changes to be used with IPKGBUILD.

Samples of IPKGBUILD packages can be found here.

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• Prerequisites
• License
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• Installation
• Development

• Creates standard IPKG packages.
• Calculates package dependencies automatically.
• Full support for building sub-packages.
• Supports user defined and commonly used RPM macros.
• Full support for %setup, %patch and %configure macros.
• Full support for %attr, %config and %doc filespec macros.
• Converts %attr macro into IPKG postinstall scripts automatically.
• Converts %config macro into IPKG conffiles spec automatically.

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• GNU bash.
• GNU make.
• GNU tar.
• Coreutils (awk, cat, grep, sed, sort, tr).

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IPKGBUILD is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

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The latest stable version of IPKGBUILD is 0.8.0 (16-Apr-2009).

The source distribution:
ipkgbuild-0.8.0.tar.gz [PGP] [NEWS] [ChangeLog]

Previous versions of IPKGBUILD can be found here.

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The IPKGBUILD source distribution use the GNU autotools for configuration, so compilation and installation follows the familiar command sequence of "./configure; make; make install". For detailed installation instructions see the INSTALL file in the root directory of the source distribution.

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The latest IPKGBUILD sources can always be obtained from the TLA Archive. Since no build scripts are included in the TLA archive, it is necessary to bootstrap the source tree after checkout using the bootstrap script "tools/bootstrap.sh" from the source tree. This requires recent build tools:

• GNU autoconf ≥ 2.59
• GNU automake ≥ 1.9

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