[aur-general] Building a package from a currently installed program
Hi, I have searched for this and not found anything, but it seems like it should be possible. Is there a way to package a currently installed program? I have a friend who is having trouble with a new Arch install getting Orca working. I know for sure my version of Orca is working, so I wanted to package it for him, send it to him, and let him instal with pacman. I'm just not sure how to do it. Of course, if my version of Orca works on his install that means there is a bug somewhere, but he needs it to be working in order to access information to file a bug lol, kind of a catch 22. Thanks Storm -- Registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ Do you get paid for tweeting? I do: http://spn.tw/r11uj "The sound of evil laughter falls around the world tonight." DragonForce - through the Fire and Flames
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 04:15:05PM -0500, Storm Dragon wrote:
Hi, I have searched for this and not found anything, but it seems like it should be possible. Is there a way to package a currently installed program? I have a friend who is having trouble with a new Arch install getting Orca working. I know for sure my version of Orca is working, so I wanted to package it for him, send it to him, and let him instal with pacman. I'm just not sure how to do it. Of course, if my version of Orca works on his install that means there is a bug somewhere, but he needs it to be working in order to access information to file a bug lol, kind of a catch 22. Thanks Storm -- Registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ Do you get paid for tweeting? I do: http://spn.tw/r11uj "The sound of evil laughter falls around the world tonight." DragonForce - through the Fire and Flames
pacman-contrib has bacman which attempts to recreate a package from the installed files.
The day was 25/11/12 21:15 when , Storm Dragon had this to say......:
Hi, I have searched for this and not found anything, but it seems like it should be possible. Is there a way to package a currently installed program? I have a friend who is having trouble with a new Arch install getting Orca working. I know for sure my version of Orca is working, so I wanted to package it for him, send it to him, and let him instal with pacman. I'm just not sure how to do it. Of course, if my version of Orca works on his install that means there is a bug somewhere, but he needs it to be working in order to access information to file a bug lol, kind of a catch 22. Thanks Storm
I found this a while ago, I haven't tried it for a while though so I'm
not sure if it still works with the newer Pacman
Simon
#!/bin/bash
#
# bacman: recreate a package from a running system
# This script rebuilds an already installed package using metadata
# stored into the pacman database and system files
#
# (c) 2008 - locci
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:15:05 -0500
Storm Dragon
Hi, I have searched for this and not found anything, but it seems like it should be possible. Is there a way to package a currently installed program? I have a friend who is having trouble with a new Arch install getting Orca working. I know for sure my version of Orca is working, so I wanted to package it for him, send it to him, and let him instal with pacman. I'm just not sure how to do it. Of course, if my version of Orca works on his install that means there is a bug somewhere, but he needs it to be working in order to access information to file a bug lol, kind of a catch 22. Thanks Storm
Hi, if the current version from the abs doesn't fit get the version that fits from the packages.git repo: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/or... -- Jabber: atsutane@freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4
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