MesaLock Linux Packages

June 14, 2018 ยท View on GitHub

Build Status

To ensure the safty and security of the user space environment, unlike other Linux distributions, packages in MesaLock Linux are written in memory-safe language (e.g., Rust and Go). We select packages based on three metrics: quality, functionality and security. Please read the MesaLock Linux documentation to learn more.

Categories

There are four categories of all packages:

  • core: core packages to bootstrap the system
  • community: packages from community
  • core-testing: new core packages or new version for trying and testing
  • community-testing: new community packages or new version for trying and testing

Basically, core packages are essential packages to bootstrap the system and have the basic function. community packages are other nice-to-have packages written in Rust/Go. And core-testing and community-testing will aggressively use latest version or newer version code for testing.

Contributing new packages

A package consists of a build.yml script and related files and patches. It is very simple to include a new package in MesaLock Linux. The build.yml is a YAML file and should contain two parts: metadata and building functions.

The build tool (mkpkg) will make a package in following steps:

  1. downloading source code and/or extract it into $builddir directory
  2. build: building sources
  3. check: testing and checking functions
  4. install: zip the output as a package

There are several pre-defined variables which mkpkg will look for:

  • name, version, description, url, skip_check and license: package related metadata
  • build, check, install: script to build/check/install the package

Here are several pre-defined environment variables you can use in the script

  • name, version: package metadata information
  • builddir: directory for building package
  • pkgdir: directory to install compiled code

You can find more details in the mkpkg project: https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mkpkg

Example

Here is an example of build.yml script for ripgrep, a Rust grep tool.

package:
  name: ripgrep
  version: 0.8.0
  description: ripgrep combines the usability of The Silver Searcher with the raw speed of grep
  license: [MIT, Unlicense]
  url: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
  skip_check: true

  source:
    - git+https://github.com/BurntSushi/$name.git

  prepare:
    - cd "$name".git && git checkout -B 0.8.0

  build:
    - cd "$name".git && cargo build --release
    - cd "$name".git && cargo test

  install:
    - cd "$name".git && install -D -m744 target/release/rg -t "$pkgdir"/bin/

Maintainer

  • Mingshen Sun <mssun@mesalock-linux.org> @mssun

License

The MesaLock Linux Packages project is provided under the BSD license.