mrtnvgr / build-aur-packages

Github Action to build AUR packages (https://aur.archlinux.org/)

build-aur-packages

Github Action that builds AUR packages and provides the built packages as package repository in the github workspace. From there, other actions can use the package repository to install packages or upload the repository to some share or ...

See here for a real world example.

Usage:

jobs:
  build_repository:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Build Packages
      uses: mrtnvgr/build-aur-packages@main
      with:
        packages: |
          azure-cli
          kwallet-git
          micronucleus-git
        missing_pacman_dependencies: |
          libusb-compat

This example will build packages

          azure-cli
          kwallet-git
          micronucleus-git

Since the package micronucleus-git has the dependencies not properly declared, you can force pacman to install the missing dependency by passing it to missing_pacman_dependencies. If a dependency from AUR is missing, you can pass this to missing_aur_dependencies.

The resulting repository information will be copied to the github workspace.

Development

To build a package and create the corresponding repository files, build the docker image

docker build -t builder .

then run it, passing the packages as environment variables. The names of the variables are derived from the action.yaml.

mkdir workspace
docker run --rm -it \
    -v $(pwd)/workspace:/workspace \
    -e "GITHUB_WORKSPACE=/workspace" -e "INPUT_PACKAGES=go-do" \
    builder