Advanced package options

The following outlines more advanced configuration options available for packages.

LIBFOO_BUILD_SUBDIR

Sub-directory where a package’s extracted sources holds its buildable content. Sources for a package may be nested inside one or more directories. A package can specify the sub-directory where the configuration, build and installation processes are invoked from.

LIBFOO_BUILD_SUBDIR = 'subdir'

LIBFOO_DEVMODE_IGNORE_CACHE

Flag value to indicate that a package should ignore any generated cache file when operating in development mode. In most cases, users want to take advantage of cached sources to prevent having to re-fetch the same content again between builds. However, some packages may be configured in a way where their request for a package’s contents varies from a fresh stage. For example, when pulling from a branch, releng-tool will not attempt to re-fetch from a site since a cached content has already been fetched. If a developer configures a package to use a revision value with dynamic content, they may wish to use this option to have a user always force fetching new content from a clean state.

LIBFOO_DEVMODE_IGNORE_CACHE = True

By default, this option is not defined and results can vary based off the site type being fetched. In most cases, fetch operations will treat the default case of this option as disabled (False). DVCS site types may elect to enable this option by default (True) if the target revision is a branch.

LIBFOO_DEVMODE_REVISION

Specifies a development revision for a package. When a project is being built in development mode, the development revision is used over the configured LIBFOO_REVISION value. If a development revision is not defined for a project, a package will still use the configured LIBFOO_REVISION while in development mode.

LIBFOO_DEVMODE_REVISION = 'feature/alpha'

See also LIBFOO_REVISION and LIBFOO_VERSION.

LIBFOO_EXTENSION

Specifies a filename extension for the package. A package may be cached inside the download directory to be used when the extraction phase is invoked. releng-tool attempts to determine the most ideal extension for this cache file; however some cases the detected extension may be incorrect. To deal with this situation, a developer can explicitly specify the extension value using this option.

LIBFOO_EXTENSION = 'tgz'

LIBFOO_EXTERNAL

Flag value to indicate that a package is an external package. External packages will generate warnings if hashes, an ASCII-armor or licenses are missing. By default, packages are considered external unless explicitly configured to be internal.

LIBFOO_EXTERNAL = True

See also internal and external packages.

LIBFOO_EXTOPT

Specifies extension-specific options. Packages wishing to take advantage of extension-specific capabilities can forward options to extensions by defining a dictionary of values.

LIBFOO_EXTOPT = {
    'option-a': True,
    'option-b': 'value',
}

LIBFOO_EXTRACT_TYPE

Specifies a custom extraction type for a package. If a configured extension supports a custom extraction capability, the registered extraction type can be explicitly registered in this option.

LIBFOO_EXTRACT_TYPE = 'ext-custom-extract'

LIBFOO_FETCH_OPTS

Provides a means to pass command line options into the fetch process. This option can be defined as a dictionary of string pairs or a list with strings – either way defined will generate argument values which may be included in a fetch event. This field is optional. Not all site types may support this option.

LIBFOO_FETCH_OPTS = {
    # adds "--option value" to the command
    '--option': 'value',
}

# (or)

LIBFOO_FETCH_OPTS = [
    # adds "--some-option" to the command
    '--some-option',
]

LIBFOO_FIXED_JOBS

Explicitly configure the total number of jobs a package can use. The primary use case for this option is to help limit the total number of jobs for a package that cannot support a large or any parallel build environment.

LIBFOO_FIXED_JOBS = 1

LIBFOO_GIT_CONFIG

Apply additional repository-specific Git configuration settings (git config) after a Git repository cache has been initialized. By default, no repository-specific configurations are introduced (i.e. all Git calls will use the global configuration set).

LIBFOO_GIT_CONFIG = {
    'core.example': 'value',
}

LIBFOO_GIT_DEPTH

Limit fetching for a Git-based source to the specified number of commits. The value provided will be used with the --depth argument. By default, the depth will be set to a value of 1. If a developer wishes use fetch all commits from all refspecs, a developer can specify a value of 0.

While the default depth is a value of 1, an exception is made when the depth is not explicitly set and the LIBFOO_REVISION value defined is a hash. For this case, if the revision is not found with the implicitly-defined shallow depth of 1, the entire history of the repository will be fetched.

LIBFOO_GIT_DEPTH = 0

See also LIBFOO_GIT_REFSPECS and configuration quirks.

LIBFOO_GIT_REFSPECS

List of addition refspecs to fetch when using a git VCS type. By default, a Git fetch request will acquire all heads and tags refspecs. If a developer wishes use revisions from different refspecs (for example, a pull request), a developer can specify the additional refspecs to acquire when fetching.

LIBFOO_GIT_REFSPECS = ['pull/*']

LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES

Flag value to indicate whether a package’s Git submodules should be fetched/extracted during a package’s own fetch/extraction stages. By default, submodules are not fetched. Ideally, any dependencies for a package are recommended to be defined in their own individual package; however, this may not be ideal for all environments. When configured, submodules will be cached in the same fashion as other Git-based packages. Note that submodule caching is specific to the repository being processed (i.e. they cannot be “shared” between other packages). If multiple packages have the same dependency defined through a submodule, it is recommended to create a new package and reference its contents instead.

LIBFOO_GIT_SUBMODULES = True

LIBFOO_GIT_VERIFY_REVISION

Flag value to indicate whether the target revision is required to be signed before it can be used. When this value is set, the configured revision for a repository will not be extracted unless the GPG signature is verified. This includes if the public key for the author is not registered in the local system or if the target revision is not signed.

LIBFOO_GIT_VERIFY_REVISION = True

LIBFOO_HOST_PROVIDES

Hints at what host tools this package may be providing. A project may have a series of prerequisites, which are checked at the start of a run. This is to help ensure required host tools are available before attempting to build a project. If a package is designed to provide a host package (e.g. when using LIBFOO_INSTALL_TYPE with the host option), these packages can provide tools other packages may rely on. However, prerequisites checks will occur before these packages may be built, preventing a build from running. This option allows a developer to hint at what tools a host package may provide. By specifying the name of a tool in this option, an initial prerequisites check will not fail if a tool is not available at the start of a run.

LIBFOO_HOST_PROVIDES = 'some-tool'

# (or)

LIBFOO_HOST_PROVIDES = [
    'tool-a',
    'tool-b',
    'tool-c',
]

See also LIBFOO_INSTALL_TYPE.

LIBFOO_INTERNAL

Flag value to indicate that a package is an internal package. Internal packages will not generate warnings if hashes, an ASCII-armor or licenses are missing. When configured in local-sources mode, package sources are searched for in the local directory opposed to site fetched sources. By default, packages are considered external unless explicitly configured to be internal.

LIBFOO_INTERNAL = True

See also internal and external packages.

LIBFOO_NO_EXTRACTION

Warning

If LIBFOO_NO_EXTRACTION is configured for a package, the package cannot define additional hashes, configure an ASCII-armor, define a list of LIBFOO_LICENSE_FILES to manage or expect to support various actions (such as building, since no sources are available).

Flag value to indicate that a package should not extract the package contents. This feature is primarily used when using releng-tool to fetch content for one or more packages (into DL_DIR) to be used by another package the releng-tool project defines.

LIBFOO_NO_EXTRACTION = True

Limitations exist when using the LIBFOO_NO_EXTRACTION option. Since releng-tool will not be used to extract a package’s archive (if any), hash entries for files found inside the archive cannot be checked against. If any files other than the archive itself is listed, releng-tool will stop processing due to a hash check failure. In addition, since releng-tool does not have the extracted contents of an archive, it is unable to acquire a copy of the project’s license file. Specifying LIBFOO_LICENSE_FILES for projects with the no-extraction flag enabled will result in a warning. By default, this option is disabled with a value of False.

LIBFOO_PATCH_SUBDIR

Sub-directory where any package patches should be applied to. By default, patches are applied to the root of the extracted sources for a package. This option can be useful for packages which utilize LIBFOO_BUILD_SUBDIR to work in a container directory for sources which contain multiple modules, but has prepared patches tailored for the specific module being targeted.

LIBFOO_PATCH_SUBDIR = 'subdir'

See also LIBFOO_BUILD_SUBDIR.

LIBFOO_PREFIX

Specifies the sysroot prefix value to use for the package. An explicitly provided prefix value will override the project-defined or default sysroot prefix value.

LIBFOO_PREFIX = '/usr'

See also sysroot_prefix.

LIBFOO_REVISION

Specifies a revision value for a package. When a package fetches content using source management tools, the revision value is used to determine which sources should be acquired (e.g. a tag). If a revision is not defined package, a package will use the configured LIBFOO_VERSION.

LIBFOO_REVISION = 'libfoo-v2.1'

For users planning to take advantage of development mode capabilities, multiple revisions can be configured based off the mode:

LIBFOO_REVISION = {
    DEFAULT_REVISION: 'libfoo-v2.1',
    'develop': 'main',
}

See also LIBFOO_DEVMODE_REVISION and LIBFOO_VERSION.

LIBFOO_SKIP_REMOTE_CONFIG

Flag value to indicate that a package should not attempt to load any package configurations which may be defined in the package’s source. A package, by default, has the ability to load configuration information from a package’s source. If the package includes a .releng-tool file at the root of their sources, supported configuration options that have not been populated will be registered into the package before invoking a package’s configuration stage.

LIBFOO_SKIP_REMOTE_CONFIG = True

See also configuration quirks.

LIBFOO_SKIP_REMOTE_SCRIPTS

Flag value to indicate that a package should not attempt to load any package scripts which may be defined in the package’s source. Typically, a script-based package will load configuration, build, etc. scripts from its package definition folder. If a script-based package is missing a stage script to invoke and finds an associated script in the package’s source, the detected script will be invoked. For example, if libfoo package may attempt to load a libfoo-configure script for a configuration stage. In the event that the script cannot be found and remote scripting is permitted for a package, the script (if exists) releng-configure will be loaded from the root of the package’s contents.

LIBFOO_SKIP_REMOTE_CONFIG = True

See also configuration quirks.

LIBFOO_STRIP_COUNT

Specifies the strip count to use when attempting to extract sources from an archive. By default, the extraction process will strip a single directory from an archive (value: 1). If a package’s archive has no container directory, a strip count of zero can be set; likewise if an archive contains multiple container directories, a higher strip count can be set.

LIBFOO_STRIP_COUNT = 1

LIBFOO_VCS_TYPE

Explicitly sets the version control system type to use when acquiring sources. releng-tool attempts to automatically determine the VCS type of a package based off a LIBFOO_SITE value. In some scenarios, a site value may be unable to specify a desired prefix/postfix. A developer can instead explicitly set the VCS type to be used no matter what the site value is configured as.

Supported types are as follows:

• bzr (Bazaar)

• cvs (CVS)

• git (Git)

• hg (Mercurial)

• local (no VCS; local interim-development package)

• none (no VCS; virtual package)

• perforce (Perforce)

• rsync (rsync)

• scp (SCP)

• svn (SVN)

• url (URL)

LIBFOO_VCS_TYPE = 'git'

If a project registers a custom extension which provides a custom VCS type, the extension type can be set in this option.

For users planning to take advantage of development mode capabilities with mode-specific sites, users can provide an explicit VCS type based off a configured mode:

LIBFOO_VCS_TYPE = {
    DEFAULT_REVISION: 'git',
    'legacy': 'cvs',
}

Using a specific type will create a dependency for a project that the respective host tool is installed on the host system. For example, if a Git VCS-type is set, the host system will need to have git installed on the system.

The use of the local type is designed to be a special/development-helper type only. When set, this option allows placing the sources of a package directly inside a local folder inside the definition folder. For example, a package libfoo configured with a local type would be structured as follows:

└── my-releng-tool-project/
    ├── package/
    │   └── libfoo/
    │       └── local/                <----
    │       │   └── src/
    │       │   |   └── ...
    │       │   └── Makefile
    │       └── libfoo
    ...

This approach is similar to using local-sources mode, where it avoids the need to have the module content located in a site to be fetched – specifically, for initial development/testing/training scenarios. It is never recommended to store the package’s “main content” inside a releng-tool project, thus using the local type will always generate a warning message.