alien

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PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: isaacangello <isaacangello@inf.ufpell.edu.br>
    
      2#
    
      3# This is the fork of alien with native Arch Linux pacman (.pkg.tar.zst)
    
      4# package format support, including --to-pacman, --pkg-name and --name.
    
      5#
    
      6# Note: alien Package.pm uses the Perl module namespace Alien::*
    
      7# but it is NOT related to the Alien::* CPAN distro for building
    
      8# external library dependencies.
    
      9
    
      10pkgname=alien
    
      11pkgver=8.95.9
    
      12pkgrel=1
    
      13pkgdesc='Convert between package formats: deb, rpm, tgz, slp, pkg, lsb, and pacman (.pkg.tar.zst)'
    
      14arch=('any')
    
      15url='https://github.com/isaacangello/alien'
    
      16license=('GPL-2.0-or-later')
    
      17depends=('perl')
    
      18optdepends=(
    
      19  'rpm-tools: for RPM package conversion'
    
      20  'dpkg: for Debian package operations'
    
      21  'fakeroot: for building packages without root'
    
      22  'libarchive: bsdtar for pacman package handling'
    
      23  'zstd: for .pkg.tar.zst compression'
    
      24)
    
      25conflicts=('alien_package_converter')
    
      26provides=('alien_package_converter')
    
      27source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/isaacangello/alien/archive/refs/tags/v${pkgver}-pacman1.tar.gz")
    
      28sha256sums=('ed234fcb447d26aa1c9a4174a685c06a0bfc8c2f46ec45d9bffcc01e70060665')
    
      29
    
      30build() {
    
      31  cd "$srcdir/alien-$pkgver-pacman1"
    
      32
    
      33  # INSTALLDIRS=vendor: install Perl modules to /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
    
      34  # INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT=/usr/bin: install the alien binary to /usr/bin (works with sudo)
    
      35  # The man pages are placed in the standard Arch locations.
    
      36  # The upstream Makefile.PL does not regenerate the 'alien' script as
    
      37  # part of the default target, so build it explicitly first.
    
      38  perl Makefile.PL \
    
      39    INSTALLDIRS=vendor \
    
      40    INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT=/usr/bin \
    
      41    INSTALLMAN1DIR=/usr/share/man/man1 \
    
      42    INSTALLMAN3DIR=/usr/share/man/man3
    
      43
    
      44  make alien
    
      45  make
    
      46}
    
      47
    
      48package() {
    
      49  cd "$srcdir/alien-$pkgver-pacman1"
    
      50  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
    
      51
    
      52  # Remove MakeMaker artifacts: pacman tracks files itself, so .packlist
    
      53  # and perllocal.pod are unnecessary. Removing them here (rather than
    
      54  # letting makepkg's purge do it) prevents leftover empty directories.
    
      55  find "$pkgdir" -name '.packlist' -delete
    
      56  find "$pkgdir" -name 'perllocal.pod' -delete
    
      57
    
      58  # Remove now-empty directories (MakeMaker artifacts under /usr/lib/perl5)
    
      59  find "$pkgdir" -type d -empty -delete
    
      60}
    
      61

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