APGBuild

Package build system for NurOS Linux.

About

APGBuild is a tool for creating and managing APGv2 packages. It provides CRC32 checksums for file integrity verification and secure archive handling.

Features

• APGv2 package creation and extraction
• CRC32 checksums (replaces deprecated MD5)
• Interactive metadata.json wizard
• Path traversal protection
• tar.xz compression

Requirements

• Go 1.21 or later
• Meson (for building)
• Ninja

Building

Using Meson

meson setup build
meson compile -C build
sudo meson install -C build

Using Go

go build -o apgbuild ./cmd/apgbuild

Usage

apgbuild [command] [options]

Commands:
  build, -b <dir> [-o <output>]  Build package from directory
  extract, -x <pkg> [dest]       Extract package
  list, -l <pkg>                 List package contents
  meta, -m [output]              Create metadata.json
  sums <dir> [output]            Generate CRC32 checksums
  verify <sums> [basedir]        Verify checksums
  version, -v                    Show version
  help, -h                       Show help

Examples

# Build package
apgbuild build ./mypackage -o mypackage.apg

# Extract package
apgbuild extract package.apg ./output

# Create metadata
apgbuild meta

# Generate checksums
apgbuild sums ./data crc32sums

Package Structure

package.apg
├── metadata.json
├── crc32sums
├── data/
├── scripts/
│   ├── pre-install
│   └── post-install
└── home/

License

GPL-3.0

Author

AnmiTaliDev anmitali198@gmail.com