pkgbuild-actions

A series of GitHub Actions useful for building Arch Linux's PKGBUILD files in GitHub Action.

Important

pkgbuild-actions is deprecated due to its complexity. If you are looking for an alternative, you can check makepkg-action. But it requires manual migration.

CI status

Features

• Multi-arch support

  You can handle x86_64 and aarch64 packages with those actions.

  How to use:

  Set runs-on with proper value like ubuntu-24.04 or ubuntu-24.04-arm. The latter will only available for public repository. You can also run the docker image directly with --platform argument to specify which architecture you want to run.

• No yay/paru

  Everything is built with a minimal archlinux/archlinuxarm system with base-devel, base and other dependencies listed in PKGBUILD installed. Not-in-official-repository dependencies will be installed from a custom repository so pacman can find it directly.

  This means you have to prepare a custom pacman repository yourself to storage those dependencies. You can use update-pacman-repo action in this github repository to achieve that.

Actions

• build

  Build PKGBUILD in container.

• bump-pkgver

  Bump $pkgver by running pkgver() in PKGBUILD.

• download-sources

  Download files defined in $sources array.

• fetch-pgp-keys

  Fetch GnuPG keys defiled in $validpgpkeys array.

• get-global-variable

  Get top-level variables defined in PKGBUILD.

• update-pacman-repo

  Scan *.pkg.tar.* in directory and generate a pacman repository.

Usage

See README.md in each action's folder.