[arch-general] Build from source question.

[Allan McRae]

Anton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:28:55 +0600
> Lukáš Jirkovský <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 2008/12/16 Anton <warm at stack.ru>:
>>     
>>> Good day.
>>>
>>> I'm going to compile all needed packages for archlinux. There are many source mirrors at the net not only
>>> URLs from PKGBUILD. Usually it is "distfiles" dir from gentoo or freebsd. It contains sources for their
>>> ports. I want use this sources.
>>>
>>> How can I to make makepkg to look for source in my LAN mirrirs to get it first from there and only then
>>> from PKGBUILD's url ?
>>>
>>> For example in CRUX pkgmk.conf there is PKGMK_SOURCE_MIRRORS=(...) wich point to list of such mirrors. I
>>> looking for the same in archlinux.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Anton [WARM-RIPE]
>>> Stack ltd division head
>>> tel. 8 (3822) 555-797
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Hello,
>> you can use SRCDEST="/path/to/folder" option in makepkg.conf. makepkg
>> looks into this directory first and if there are no sources, it will
>> download them there.
>>     
>
> This is not exactly what I looking for. In this case I should manually download sources to the SRCDEST from
> my local mirrirs but I want automatic try to download the sources to SRCDEST from my list of URLs where source
> can be found or not. If source tar ball can not be found at URLs from the list then source should be
> downloaded from its true home page or location specified in PKGBUILD. CRUX's pkgmk can do this, can makepkg ?
>   

makepkg can not do this.

Allan