aur.md

Arch User Repository Setup to begin contributing

Prepare SSH keys

Open ~/.ssh/config:

nvim ~/.ssh/config

Add the following:

Host aur.archlinux.org
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/aur
  User aur

Generate SSH keys:

cd ~/.ssh/
ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/aur

Go to your AUR profile, "My Account" page and add the public key with the appropriate menu.

Adopt an existing orphaned package

Clone package:

git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/package_name.git

Create a new AUR package from scratch

Clone empty AUR repository, but with your package's desired name:

git -c init.defaultbranch=master clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/package-name.git ./package-name

Add an AUR remote:

cd ./package-name
git remote add label ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/package-name.git

Fetch the remote for AUR initialization:

git fetch package-name

Create PKGBUILD:

sudo cp -v /usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD.proto ./PKGBUILD

Generate .SRCINFO:

makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO

Push first commit:

git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit."
git push origin master

Create package:

makepkg -si

(optional: clean cache with makepkg --clean)

Update package

Make the required modifications to the required files.

Update checksums:

updpkgsums PKGBUILD

Add, commit and push the changes to the AUR (example: godot-voxel-bin):

git add .
git commit -m "Updated for Godot x.x.x and Voxel Tools x.x.x"
git push