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Doctor Drive

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[Solved] Can I somehow set makepkg to not compress the package?

It takes to long to compress big aur's packages. And it is not needed at all because after the install I woun't need tha package file anymore.
Can I somehow set it to make tar archives or somehow lower the compressing level?

Last edited by Doctor Drive (2011-10-07 15:52:33)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [Solved] Can I somehow set makepkg to not compress the package?

[karol@black ~]$ tail /etc/makepkg.conf
#
# WARNING: Do NOT modify these variables unless you know what you are
#          doing.
#
#PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.xz'
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar'
#PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.gz'
SRCEXT='.src.tar.gz'

# vim: set ft=sh ts=2 sw=2 et:

falconindy

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Re: [Solved] Can I somehow set makepkg to not compress the package?

Also note that you can override this on a per package basis by (re)definining PKGEXT right in the PKGBUILD.

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lolilolicon

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Re: [Solved] Can I somehow set makepkg to not compress the package?

I would recommend setting in makepkg.conf something like this:

PKGEXT=${PKGEXT:-'.pkg.tar.xz'}

then when you don't want compression, you just

PKGEXT=.tar makepkg

And if you almost always don't want compression, you can set an alias: alias makepkg='PKGEXT=.tar makepkg' (use \makepkg to skip the alias).

Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-10-07 16:04:05)

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Doctor Drive

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Re: [Solved] Can I somehow set makepkg to not compress the package?

Thanks!