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bbtrb

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Registered: 2010-08-12

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[Solved] pacman testing

Hi all,

I'd like to start/help out testing patches for pacman, more specifically the gpg/signing patches (http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 11431.html).
Before playing around with this I'd like to make sure to not break my system and therefore create an entirely new tree.

So, I'd do the following:
- run pacman as a normal user
- use a different config with RootDir/DBPath/CacheDir/... set to  user readable/writeable directories

Would that be safe or is pacman doing other stuff I'm not aware of? I think about how config files are created/overwritten (?) in user directories (but I guess this only happens when the specific exec is run for the first time ...)
Or should I run a new arch instance in a VM just for this?

Thanks!

Last edited by bbtrb (2010-08-30 22:56:49)

Allan

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Re: [Solved] pacman testing

You are better off asking on the pacman-dev list.

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bbtrb

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Registered: 2010-08-12

Posts: 12

Re: [Solved] pacman testing

For anyone interested: I found that the simplest way is creating a chroot and starting off with a complete new base.

Sometimes it helps to be a gamer Wanted to try dwarf fortress for the first time on my 64bit system and indirectly stumbled upon that way of getting an independent i686 environment.

Last edited by bbtrb (2010-08-30 22:57:43)