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## PrawnOS Packaging
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All programs, themes, etc that are not part of upstream debian are built as packages
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this allows PrawnOS the following benefits:
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- the PrawnOS apt repo is not a build dependency
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- test builds don't require any special steps-- just make the change locally and rebuild the filesystem
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- a user doesn't have to trust the PrawnOS apt repo to build their own image
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- the PrawnOS apt repo requires less bandwidth, as only package updates will be gotten from it
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Note that some packages that are available upstream, but only in unstable or testing repos or have
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fixes only in the unstable or testing repos are packaged as part of PrawnOS
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### Updating Packages
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By using packages for all parts of PrawnOS, updates are more straightforward.
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When an existing PrawnOS install has out of date packages, the user can then either
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build the new version themselves or get the update from the repo using the standard "apt upgrade"
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### Package folder structure
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Packages are stored under component of the final PrawnOS image they belong to
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Inside the package folder there are the following items:
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- `makefile`
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- source folder called `src`
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- a `.orig.tar.gz*` containing the package source.
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- a `.gitignore` to avoid commiting build artifacts, or unnecessary source files
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The contents of the `src` are the following:
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- a `debian` folder
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- the source files if the package is not packages upstream (by debian)
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- the patched source files if there are any PrawnOS specific patches. This is to keep the changes tracked by git.
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If the source is from an upstream package, and no PrawnOS specific patches are carried then only the `debian` folder is in the `src` folder
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### Building packages
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Most packages are built in a host architecture agnostic fashion using pbuilder.
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The only notable exceptions to this are font packages, which are not architecture dependent and
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the kernel package, which handles cross compilation manually without a chroot.
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To build any package, navigate to that packages folder and run
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```
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make clean
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make
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```
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the resulting .deb will be in that same folder when the build is complete
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### Uploading packages
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New packages, and package updates can upload to `deb.prawnos.com` by maintainers
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first by building and then running
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```
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make upload
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```
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