Recipe

From GoboLinux Knowledge Base

Recipes are directions to Compile on how to configure, make, and install a particular program. The term "Recipe" can refer to either

• A packed tarball, as held in the recipe-store on gobolinux.org. These are named as

Foo--1.0-r1--recipe.tar.bz2.

• The file Foo/1.0-r1/Recipe in such a tarball.

[edit] File Layout

A packed recipe is a tarball such as Program--Version-r1--recipe.tar.bz2. It contains a directory structure

• Program/
  • Version-r1/
    • Recipe - the primary file.
    • Patches, optionally.
    • Resources/
      • Dependencies
      • Description
      • Defaults/ (optionally)
        • Settings/
        • Variable/
      • Tasks/ (optionally)
      • Wrappers/ (optionally)
      • BuildDependencies, BuildInformation, Environment, Hints, PostInstall, Requirements, optionally.
    • Architecture subdirectories, such as arm/, cell/, i686/, ppc/, sh4/, or x86_64/, optionally.

[edit] See

• Writing Recipes
• Recipe Format Specification
• Binary recipes
• How to Commit Recipes
• Scripts:
  • NewVersion - Updates an existing recipe to a new version.
  • MakeRecipe - Creates a recipe template from URL.
  • EditRecipe - Edits an existing recipe.
  • RecipeLint - Makes sure a recipe has no obvious errors.
  • GetRecipe - Fetches a recipe and insert it in your system's Recipes tree.
  • UpdateRecipes - Updates the local recipe list from recipe stores.
  • PackRecipe - Generates a packed recipe tarball from a local Recipe directory, ready for submission.
  • ContributeRecipe - submits the recipe for approval and inclusion in the recipe-store.
• The online Recipe Browser at recipes.gobolinux.org.
• The Recipes mailing list at http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-recipes.