apk-tools

The package filename. This will specify the package name and version. The filename consist of four logical subsections:

pkg-ver{_suf{#}}{-r#}.apk

The brackets ({}) delineate optional fields. # represents any non-zero positive integer.

The first subsection, pkg, is the package name, which should only contain lowercase letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single hyphen (-), underscore (_) or plus (+) characters.

The second subsection, ver, is the version of the package, which should normally be same as the version on the main source tarball. The version is normally made up of two or three (or more) numbers separated by periods, such as 1.2 or 4.5.2, and may have a single letter immediately following the last digit; e.g., 1.4b or 2.6h. The package version is joined to the package name with a hyphen. For example: foo-1.0, bar-2.4.6.

The third subsection, {_suf{#}}, is optional may contain one of these predefined suffixes, listed in least-recent to most-recent order:

Any of these suffixes may be immediately followed by a non-zero positive integer, e.g., foo-2.4.0_pre10.

The fourth subsection of the package name is the distro specific revision number ({-r#}). # is a non-zero positive integer; e.g., package-4.5.3-r3.

Fetch package “architechture” from file arch or, if preceded by +, the argument itself.

Fetch package “one line description” from file desc or, if preceded by +, the argument itself.

Use fakeroot when creating package. apk_create will set root:root as owner on all files before creation. This option will allow creation of packages without root permissions.

Show help and exit.

Set iscript to be the pre-install shell script for the package. It will be invoked automatically when the package is later installed. It will be passed the package's name as the first argument.

Set piscript to be the post-install shell script for the package. It will be invoked automatically when the package is later installed. It will be passed the package's name as the first argument.

Set dscript to be the pre-deinstall shell script for the package. It will be invoked automatically when the package is later (if ever) de-installed. It will be passed the package's name as the first argument.

Set pdscript to be the post-deinstall shell script for the package. It will be invoked automatically when the package is later (if ever) de-installed. It will be passed the package's name as the first argument.

Fetch package “license” from file license or, if preceded by +, the argument itself.

Use all metafiles found in metadir.

Set owners to be the OWNERS list for the package.

The OWNERS file sets the user and group ownership for files in the package. The format is:

user [:group] [@]relative/path/to/file

Where user and group are either numeric or named UID/GIDs. If the pathspec begins with the literal "@", then chown is run with the -R (recursive) option to set ownership of the entire subtree.

Use package as source instead of srcdir. (See -s.) The package has to be either a .tar.gz or a .tar.bz2 file.

Set the initial package dependency list to pkgs. This is assumed to be a whitespace separated list of package names without version numbers.

Set srcdir as the source directory from where to select files for the package. If this option is not specified, the current directory is used.

Strip all ELF files with sstrip.

Include files that are listed in the file includefile or stdin if includefile is a - (dash).

Set uscript to be the pre-update shell script for the package. It will be invoked automatically when the package is later (if ever) updated. It will be passed the package's name as the first argument.

Set puscript to be the post-update shell script for the package. It will be invoked automatically when the package is later (if ever) updated. It will be passed the package's name as the first argument.

Turn on verbose mode.

Fetch package hompage from file uri or, if preceded by +, the argument itself.

Exclude files that matches excludepattern.

Exclude files that are listed in the file excludefile or stdin if excludefile is a - (dash).

Directory where apk_create stores temporary files. Default is /tmp.

Default location for temporary files and directories.