DEVTOOLS(7)   DEVTOOLS(7)

devtools - Developer tools for the Arch Linux distribution

Devtools contains tools for package maintenance in Arch Linux. It comes with a unified command-line frontend called pkgctl that aids to conveniently interact with all the different tools this collection provides.

The toolset varies from tools for building packages in a clean chroot (mkarchroot, archbuild, ...), packaging related tools (sogrep, diffpkg, lddd) and tools for repository management such as (pkgrepo).

The list below gives a short overview; see the respective documentation for details.

pkgctl(1) Unified command-line frontend for devtools

archbuild(1) Build an Arch Linux package inside a clean chroot

arch-nspawn(1) Run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container

checkpkg(1) Compare the current build package with the repository version

diffpkg(1) Compare package files using different modes

export-pkgbuild-keys(1) Export valid source signing keys from a PKGBUILD

find-libdeps(1) Find soname dependencies for a package

find-libprovides(1) Find soname’s which are provided by a package

lddd(1) Find broken library links on your system

mkarchroot(1) Creates an arch chroot in a specified location with a specified set of packages

makechrootpkg(1) Build a PKGBUILD in a given chroot environment

makerepropkg(1) Rebuild a package to see if it is reproducible

offload-build(1) Build a PKGBUILD on a remote server using makechrootpkg

sogrep(1) Find packages using a linked to a given shared library

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools

Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs.

02/14/2024