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Welcome

Welcome, and here is a brief introduction to AOSC OS packaging using our Autobuild3 package manager abstraction toolkit, and ABBS, or AutoBuild Build Service to maintain Autobuild3 build configurations/manifests in a tree-like manner.

Table of Content

Introduction

• Preparing a build environment
  • What is BuildKit?
  • Getting BuildKit
  • Deploying BuildKit
    • Chroot
    • systemd-nspawn
    • Docker
• Grab the tools
  • Autobuild3
  • ABBS

Autobuild3

• Specifications
• General structure
  • The "defines" file
  • Preparing the source
  • Building the source
  • Packaging
  • Extra notes
• Build Types
  • Build types?
  • autotools
  • cmake
  • waf
  • plainmake
  • haskell
  • perl
  • python
  • qtproj
  • ruby
• Architectural manipulation
• Quirks
• Scriptlets
• File filters/manipulators
• Package manager
• Variable dictionary
• Tips and tricks

ABBS

• Trees?
• Management
  • Planting a tree
  • Building from a tree
  • Maintaining a tree
• The AOSC OS tree
  • Rationale
  • Importance
  • Routines and protocols
  • Contributing
    • Conventions
    • Regulations

Practices