[arch-general] Building packages, and their dependencies

[Ray Rashif]

2010/10/16 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 14:24 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:06, Ray Rashif <schiv at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> > On 15 October 2010 18:37, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> >> I have a tree of packages, organised similarly to ABS, i.e. directory
>> >> names match package name, and in each directory is a PKGBUILD (and
>> >> what else is needed).  Something like this:
>> >>
>> >> my-packages/
>> >>  foo/
>> >>    PKGBUILD
>> >>  bar/
>> >>    PKGBUILD
>> >>    bar.install
>> >>  baz/
>> >>    PKGBUILD
>> >>  ...
>> >>
>> >> Is there some tool that would allow me to move into one of these
>> >> directories, build the package including any dependencies?  (Basically
>> >> an ABS helper that handles dependencies.)
>> >
>> > makeworld
>>
>> Excellent, but is it possible to pass it a specific package that I
>> want to build, and only build its dependencies?
>>
>> /M
>>
> Try bauerbill out. It can be set to 'build all from abs'. Not sure about
> including the dependencies though, but a bit of sed-magic may help
> there.

Oh right, sorry, then makeworld is not the right tool. It builds what
is passed to it in an ABS-like hierarchy - it does not know about
dependencies. Looks like I misread the subject.

Anyway, Bauerbill looks like it can do that. Take a look at the examples:

http://www.xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/bauerbill/#quick-feature-overview