apkbuild-lint(1)

apkbuild-lint1

A linter for alpine linux's build files (apkbuild)

Usage

apkbuild-lint <apkbuild ... >

Overview

apkbuild-lint is a linter for packages in aports. It will check the APKBUILD file for violations of policy, superfluous statements, stylistic violations and others. See alint(5) under the apkbuild-lint section for an explanation of each violation that apkbuild-lint checks for.

apkbuild-lint will print the policy violations found and exit 1, if no violations are found then nothing will be printed and it will exit 0.

Environment

The CUSTOM_VALID_OPTIONS variable can be set to a whitespace-separated list of variables that will be considered valid inside the options= variable of an APKBUILD

Output

apkbuild-lint will print to stdout whenever a policy violation is found in the following format

SEVERITYCERTAINITY:[TAG]:PATH::MSG

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SEVERITY refers to how severe a violation is, ranging from S to M.

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CERTAINITY refers to how likely it is not a false positive, ranging from C to P

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TAG refers to the tag of the violation, see alint(5) for more details.

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PATH refers to the path given for apkbuild-lint to check.

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LINE refers to the number of the line where the violation was found.

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MSG is a short message meant for humans to know what is the violation.

Authors

Maintained by Leo <[email protected]>

From atools 20.2.2-5 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.