[arch-general] custom repo guide?

[Arvid Picciani]

Aaron Griffin wrote:

> You know, I tried making a script to do this and it ended up going no
> where. The intent was to use makechrootpkg (from devtools) to build
> packages in a chroot and consequently install the package to the
> chroot when completed. The only stipulation was that you needed to
> manually specify the build order and do the dep stuff manually.
> 
> I'd suggest making a dumb script to just call makechrootpkg
> repeatedly. If you're doing deps, then order matters, if not, then a
> simple loop like so would work:
> for pkg in pkgbuilds/*; do
>    pushd "$pkg"
>    makechrootpkg -c /path/to/chroot #or whatever
>    popd
> done


Nice.  mkchrootpkg appears to be exactly what i need.
I'm going to do that, thanks.
I guess i have it a little easier with the dependencies,
since i can pull almost all of them from upstream binaries.


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Arvid
Asgaard Technologies