toltecmk

toltecmk is a Python tool used to build software packages for the Toltec repository from PKGBUILD-like build recipes. It automates common tasks such as fetching sources, building artifacts in a reproducible environment, and creating Opkg-compatible archives.

Disclaimer: This is beta-quality software. The recipe format may change at any time in future releases. If you use toltecmk in other projects, it is advised to pin to a specific version.

Setup

toltecmk is available as a Python package on PyPI.

pip install toltecmk

There are a few system requirements to use this tool:

• Linux-based operating system
• Python ⩾ 3.11
• Docker

Basic Usage

To build a recipe located in the current directory, simply run:

toltecmk

This will process the recipe in a subfolder called build (which can be adjusted using the --work-dir flag) and generate packages in a subfolder called dist (--dist-dir flag).

Documentation

• Tutorials and resources
  • Guide to writing recipes
  • About ipk packages
• Reference
  • Recipe format reference
  • Details on the build process

Related Projects

Many other build tools exist today for creating software packages, each major distribution having invented its own recipe and package formats. Some important ones are listed below. toltecmk itself uses an Arch Linux-style recipe format to build Debian-style packages.

Name	Used by	Recipe format	Package format
Debian-style
debhelper	Debian, Ubuntu, and others	Source packages (Makefiles)	deb
OpenWrt SDK	OpenWrt, Entware	Source packages (Makefiles)	ipk
Fedora-style
rpmbuild	Fedora, openSUSE, and others	spec (DSL)	rpm
Arch Linux-style
makepkg	Arch Linux and others	PKGBUILD (Bash scripts)	pkg.tar.zst
abuild	Alpine Linux	APKBUILD (Bash scripts)	apk
Others
nix-build	NixOS	Expressions (DSL)	nar
ebuild	Gentoo	ebuild (Bash scripts)	tbz2