Table of Contents

• Fink Packaging Tutorial
  • About
  • So you want to contribute your own packages?
  • Important Links

Fink Packaging Tutorial

About

Fink is a great way to install software on Mac OS X. Basically, it is a port of the Debian Package Manager.

So you want to contribute your own packages?

Since creating Fink package is not that much more effort than compiling the software from source, you can kill to birds with one stone. Below is a Makefile that supports the process:

INFOS = mypackage1.info mypackage2.info

PACKAGES = $(patsubst %.info,%.deb,$(INFOS))

DEBPATH = /sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-*
LOCALDIST = /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/

all: $(PACKAGES)

clean:
	rm -f $(PACKAGES) *~

distclean:
	make $(patsubst %.info,%.CLEAN,$(INFOS))

%.CLEAN: %.info
	fink remove $(patsubst %.info,%,$<)
	sudo rm -f $(DEBPATH)/$(patsubst %.info,%,$<)*.deb
	sudo rm -f $(LOCALDIST)/$<

%.deb: %.info
	echo "Copying files...:"
	sudo install $< $(LOCALDIST)
	sudo install $(patsubst %.info,%.patch,$<) $(LOCALDIST) || true
	echo "Validating $< ..."
	fink -v validate $<
	echo "Trying to build as user nobody"
	fink -m --build-as-nobody rebuild $(patsubst %.info,%,$<)
	echo "Validating $@ ..."
	fink -v validate $(DEBPATH)/$(patsubst %.info,%,$<)*.deb
	echo "Contents of package:"
	dpkg -c $(DEBPATH)/$(patsubst %.info,%,$<)*.deb
	echo "Installing $@ ..."
	fink install $(patsubst %.info,%,$<)
	ln $(DEBPATH)/$(patsubst %.info,%,$<)*.deb $@

Important Links

• Fink Packaging Manual

• Fink Packaging Tutorial

• Other Mac-related topics

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