Comamain

From Gnuffy

"comamain" is a script that acts as a "brainless package maintainer" and got its name from its method to provide packages to the pkglist:

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

Any src-archive it tries and that actually completes these three steps with success and actually fill $DESTDIR with something, is offered as a PKGBUILD from repository "comamain".

comamain also has some automatic methods to find updates for packages, so if a package actually works well with the standard way of building packages using autoconf, comamain will probably do a good job as a "maintainer", since it will probably detect updates early.

comamain packages are not human revised, they followed a standard building rule only and therefore we do not really need to download a PKGBUILD for them. Instead spaceman creates a standard PKGBUILD as seen with spaceman --newpkgbuild $URL when you select a PKGBUILD from comamain.

This can be dumb, comamain does not really test if the package works, all it does is trying to build it and checking if there is something as a result. If you have the choice between comamain and a human revised package from another repository, most often it would be wise to select the human revised build instead of comamain.

comamain is supported by spaceman starting with version 0.5.6.alpha.2254