Newbie to packaging

[arctic basin]

This weekend (+ half a week) i made my first ever AUR package:
https://github.com/fami-fish/zooc/tree/aur_release

So far i have this, however Im not sure if its correct. Here are my main questions:

• Should the c app copy from /etc/ into your local XDG_CONFIG_HOME? if so, should i define a macro (-Dprefix=$(prefix) in the makefile then somehow pass it in from PKGBUILD?)
• Should GLEW/GL/X11/XRANDR be in my depends on the PKGBUILD? What other relavant packages would i need to depend on (dependencies of gl/x11??)
  Im completely new to packaging and the build process surounding it so some help would be greatly appreciated :D

[stray stratus]

@arctic basin https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CMake_package_guidelines

[arctic basin]

ah so no -03

got it thanks for that

[stray stratus]

you're welcome

@arctic basin did you test install it to see if it works?

in a clean chroot

[arctic basin]

not yet actually, I wasn't exactly done with my build process yet since i still dont know how to pass in the /etc/ (datadir path) all the way from the PKGBUILD into C

for the purposes of copying any files in /etc/ to the local ~/.config/ if they are present

[stray stratus]

@arctic basin don't do that

[stray stratus]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Creating_packages

[arctic basin]

maybe om just not seeing where but i dont think this page mentions anything about /etc. I also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_package_guidelines which mentions that config files should be in /etc/pkg but never says which step of the build process should do this

also, i thought copying configs and files from etc was expected on first startup

[stray stratus]

take a look at this https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/rofi/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads

[zealous gulch]

I believe packages aren't supposed to touch home directories

[stray stratus]

@zealous gulch they are not

[arctic basin]

should the app? or nothing at all period and its the user's responsability to copy them to the local config dir?

[zealous gulch]

Apps can, but packages aren't supposed to as they're supposed to be more generic and not reference things like the current user

If you directly put the config file in the package it can cause issues down the line with multiple users and if a username is changed

[arctic basin]

right

so i should only install to /etc within PKGBUILD (by calling make install with the dest dir), and the app itself should just attempt to read XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mypkg/config.conf, and if thats not found read the default one in /etc?

how will the c app know where /etc is though. a user could install to /.local/etc, and then not have their configs ever read so does the make file need to define a macro for the prefix??

@zealous gulch

[zealous gulch]

I haven't really heard of anyone using .local/etc/

[zealous gulch]

But yeah that's basically how it works normally

[arctic basin]

so im safe to just use /etc/ in the c code?

or should this allow in theory for some other path

[zealous gulch]

I think it's preferred if it can be configured during compilation

Some of it is up to you though

[arctic basin]

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