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    <p>So I have created a piece of software which I wanna package and post to Arch Linux User Repositories, AUR, -should note, that I have never packaged anything for any distro before - and I have also got it packaged and installed on my own machine via Arch's package manager Pacman successfully, but now I am wondering how on earth am I gonna structure the folders and files?</p> <p>Normally when I wrote software, I use this structure:</p> <p>build/ | src/ | makefile</p> <p>As a minimum, and in the case of this piece of software, the makefile does nothing more than compile a .cpp file from src/ to build/. To make the Arch package, I also had to create a .rc file, to use the program properly as a daemon and the PKGBUILD file, which is the file that tells the makepkg program how to build the installer-package - these two files, though, are specific to Arch. If I wanna package the program for say debian, I would need another set of files to do this too, but these files only work for debian. Now, I can't just put the .rc file and the PKGBUILD file in to the programs root folder, since that would "be a mess" especially if I also had files to build a package for debian, but where do I put the distro-specific files? I need to have it in the programs root folder -at-least- to be able to keep track of it, and my initial thought was to go with a structure like distro/arch/ for Arch Linux specific files, and then the PKGBUILD file would just run the makefile in the programs root folder and copy the compiled file from build/ to distro/arch/ before it did anything else, but I discovered that I couldnt get PKGBUILD to work that way, and people on #archlinux on Freenode also said it was not a smart idea.</p> <p>So where do I put the distro specific files? If I knew I only had to provide this program for Arch, it would be easy to just structure it only for Makepkg, but I dont like to imprison the softwarelike that, and I could also imagine providing packages for other mayor distros like debian, so how do I achieve this while keeping a sane file structure?</p> <p>Regards, Chris Buchholz</p>
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