Hi,

Hi everyone!

 

Our group is thinking of maintaining a subset of the msys2 repo to be used internally. I am wondering if there is documentation on the Arch Linux side on what tools you are currently using to automatically build the packages in the officially supported repos.

Almost none, we mostly build by hand. We have http://rebuilds.foutrelis.com/ for huge rebuilds though. Automation of rebuilds is somewhere on the agenda (but we would prefer to have reproducible builds first I guess).

I believe there must be some kind of dependency management as well, since official repos are never cursed by soname bump issues.

When a package has a soname dump (something we can detect with checkpkg for instance), we generate a todo list (https://www.archlinux.org/todo/) of depending packages to rebuild (using a script called sogrep).

Is there documentation on this as well? Specifically, is there a tool similar to apt-mirror?

I don’t know the specifics about mirrors/repos, but I think it’s pretty easy to setup.

Regards,
Bruno