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Welcome

Welcome, and here is a brief introduction to AOSC OS packaging using our Autobuild3 package manager abstraction toolkit, and ABBS, or AutoBuild Build Service to maintain Autobuild3 build configurations/manifests in a tree-like manner.

Table of Content

Introduction

• Preparing a build environment
  • What is BuildKit?
  • Getting BuildKit
  • Deploying BuildKit
    • Chroot
    • systemd-nspawn
    • Docker
• Grab the tools
  • Autobuild3
  • ABBS

Autobuild3

• Introduction
• Installing and deploying
• General structure
  • The "defines" file
  • Build Types
    • autotools
    • cmake
    • waf
    • plainmake
    • haskell
    • perl
    • python
    • qtproj
    • ruby
  • The "prepare" file
  • The "patches" directory
  • The "patch" file
  • The "build" file
  • The "beyond" file
  • The "overrides" directory
• Architectural manipulation
• Quirks
• Scriptlets
• File filters/manipulators
• Package manager
• Variable dictionary
• Tips and tricks

ABBS

• Trees?
• Management
  • Planting a tree
  • Building from a tree
  • Maintaining a tree
• The AOSC OS tree
  • Rationale
  • Importance
  • Routines and protocols
  • Contributing
    • Conventions
    • Regulations

Practices