aur-publish

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Publish voxtype to AUR. Updates PKGBUILD, generates checksums, and pushes to AUR. Use after a GitHub release is published.

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AUR Publish

Update and publish voxtype packages to the Arch User Repository.

Packages

Package	Type	Location
`voxtype`	Source build	`packaging/arch/`
`voxtype-bin`	Pre-built binaries	`packaging/arch-bin/`

Prerequisites

GitHub release already published with binaries
GPG key configured: E79F5BAF8CD51A806AA27DBB7DA2709247D75BC6

Workflow for voxtype-bin

1. Generate SHA256 checksums

Download binaries from GitHub release and generate checksums:

VERSION=0.4.14
cd releases/${VERSION}

sha256sum voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-avx2
sha256sum voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-avx512
sha256sum voxtype-${VERSION}-linux-x86_64-vulkan

2. Update PKGBUILD

Edit packaging/arch-bin/PKGBUILD:

Update pkgver to new version
Reset pkgrel to 1
Update sha256sums array with new checksums

3. Generate .SRCINFO

cd packaging/arch-bin
makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO

4. Test locally

makepkg -si

5. Commit and push to AUR

cd packaging/arch-bin
git add PKGBUILD .SRCINFO
git commit -S -m "Update to ${VERSION}"
git push

Important Rules

Always bump pkgver, never just pkgrel when binaries change.

The download URLs include pkgver:

https://github.com/peteonrails/voxtype/releases/download/v$pkgver/voxtype-$pkgver-linux-x86_64-avx2

If only pkgrel changes, the URL stays the same and AUR helpers cache the old file.

Never re-upload different binaries to an existing GitHub release.

This causes checksum mismatches for users with cached PKGBUILDs.

Checklist

GitHub release exists with correct binaries
Binaries verified (version check, instruction validation)
pkgver updated in PKGBUILD
pkgrel reset to 1
SHA256 checksums updated
.SRCINFO regenerated
Local makepkg -si succeeds
Committed with signed commit
Pushed to AUR