[arch-general] PKGBUILD help

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 10:47 -0500, Taylor Hedberg wrote:
> Either use `makepkg -i` to install automatically after building, or
> `pacman -U foo.pkg.tar.xz` to manually install the built package.

FWIW makepkg -i requires sudo. I don't set up sudo for my user.

IMO there are good wikis about building packages, anyway, when I started
I was thankful that somebody on the list explained me, how to build
dummy packages.

IMO using ABS is very pleasant. I used it for Qtractor from svn and btw.
I excluded the checksum.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System

- Ralf