Publishing an update of the package in the AUR repository

Create an account on AUR

Download the package you want to update

In our case, we are updating infinitywallet.

AUR (en) - infinitywallet

We download the repository with the command

git clone ssh://[email protected]/infinitywallet.git

It contains three files:

infinitywallet.install  - hooki zakładane na operacje dookoła instalacji
PKGBUILD                - konfiguracja źródeł instalcji
.SRCINFO                - metadane pakietu generowane atuomatycznie

Update “source” in “PKGBUILD”

In the file PKGBUILD

pkgname=infinitywallet
pkgver=1.2.1beta
pkgrel=10
pkgdesc="Digital asset wallet"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://infinitywallet.io"
depends=('gtk3' 'libnotify' 'nss' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'xdg-utils' 'at-spi2-core' 'util-linux-libs' 'libappindicator-gtk3' 'libsecret')
options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
install=${pkgname}.install
source_x86_64=("https://github.com/InfinityWallet/Releases/releases/download/v1.2.1-beta/InfinityWallet_1.2.1-beta.deb")
sha512sums_x86_64=('f36da80cdc3d35bf6d83e573240f92ea115ab03fe7ec3b5acd699bce999df6d5e81a8ab1966ad8977773bbba2710e3fb6fba0229c3195262cd698e938fd864de')

package(){

	# Extract package data
	tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"

	install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/InfinityWallet/resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/LICENSE.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"

}

We have information about the source. This is version 1.2.1 from Ubuntu/Debian.

In the meantime, at the link with releases on Github, we have version 1.4.0

Releases · InfinityWallet/Releases

The version for Debian can be found at

https://github.com/InfinityWallet/Releases/releases/download/v1.4.0-beta/InfinityWallet_1.4.0-beta.deb

After setting this value under the key source_x86_64 in PKGBUILD, we should recalculate the sha512sums_x86_64 checksum. We can use the command line to download the package.

wget https://github.com/InfinityWallet/Releases/releases/download/v1.4.0-beta/InfinityWallet_1.4.0-beta.deb -O /tmp/iw.deb

and calculation of checksum

sha512sum /tmp/iw.deb

we paste it into the PKGBUILD file.

In the end, we change the version description in pkgver and increase the pkgrel by one.

Generating .SRCINFO

We can rebuild the metadata file with the command

makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO

Testing the package installation locally

We can check if the installation is successful by typing

makepkg -si

Sending changes to the repository

Creating a new commit

 git commit -a -m "Release v1.4.0-beta"

and we send changes to the “master” branch

git push origin master

That’s all. Our update is now publicly available.

Key steps in publishing an AUR package:

• your public ssh key must match the one in the AUR account
• the repo must have the address ssh://[email protected]/package.git
• you need to bump both the description and the version number
• use sha512sum to calculate the checksum
• besides PKGBUILD, there is also a .SRCINFO file created by makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO
• locally, you can test the installation with the command makepkg -si
• finally, you push the changes to master

If anyone from you will be uploading packages to AUR and encounters any problems - feel free to ask, I’ll be happy to help.

Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines