Packaging Cahute#

Cahute is constituted of a static library, a set of utilities, and a set of udev rules. Due to the last element having to be installed for both, only the following package organisations are available:

  • Having one package for both the static library and utilities.

  • Having one package for the static library, either a package for all utilities or a package for each utility, and a package for installing the udev rules, of which all previous package depend.

For more about the rationale behind this document, consult the Archlinux CMake packaging guidelines.

Preparing the dependencies#

Cahute depends on the following, build-only dependencies:

It also depends on the following build and runtime dependencies:

Producing the distribution directory#

You first need to retrieve the source directory, named “cahute-0.2”, using one of the following methods:

  • You can download the latest source package at https://ftp.cahuteproject.org/releases:

    curl -o cahute-0.2.tar.gz https://ftp.cahuteproject.org/releases/cahute-0.2.tar.gz
tar xvaf cahute-0.2.tar.gz

  • You can clone the repository and checkout the tag corresponding to the release:

    git clone https://gitlab.com/cahuteproject/cahute.git cahute-0.2
(cd cahute-0.2 && git checkout -f 0.2)

Now that you have the source directory, you can build it using the following commands:

cmake -B build -S cahute-0.2 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
cmake --build build

Once this is done, you can produce the distribution directory dist/ using the following command:

DESTDIR=./dist cmake --install build

Your distribution directory is ready; from there, the instructions are specific to your distribution.

Getting informed when a new version is released#

Maintaining a package is a long-term process, and you need to stay informed when Cahute is updated so that you can update your package. Fortunately, there is a way to do just this!

As described in Release process, when a new release is created, a new entry is created on the Releases page of the Gitlab repository. You can subscribe to such events by creating a Gitlab.com account, and following the steps in Get notified when a release is created.

Note

You can check your notification settings at any time in Notifications.