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hello...im trying to make a custom cd
im inputting this code...
gensync /var/abs/local/ /home/viper/Desktop/arch/extra.db.tar.gz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
and im getting this
gensync: building database entries, generating md5sums...
gensync: missing package file: /var/cache/pacman/pkg//libebml-0.7.6-1.pkg.tar.gz
i realize that this means that i dont have the package downloaded....but i dont need that package so i have to go into the /var/abs/local/extra/lib/ folder and delete it...
and that would be fine except...i have to do that for every package in the repository....is there anyway i could make a repository out of only the packages that i have..w/o having to download the files or delete the pkgbuild file from the /var/abs/local/extra/lib/ directory...what i want is a repository with kde gnome gnome-extras k3b and libdvdcss, libdvdnav..... thank you for any help or any advise.....im almost 100% sure that im doing alot wrong...im very new to the whole Arch building packaging etc...although from my experience pacman is awsome...
thanx
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Might this link be helpful to you?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cus … nd_gensync
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I added a script in wiki so you can create XXX.db.tar.gz just from a dir of packages.
VERY usefull on creating custom cd.
REALLY.
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yes...i looked at the wiki and couldnt get it working initially then i found out about abs...at first i thought it was some Arch theory...hahaha ya thats me in a nutshell ..lol
I added a script in wiki so you can create XXX.db.tar.gz just from a dir of packages.
VERY usefull on creating custom cd.
REALLY.
WOW! that sounds like exactly what I need..Im gonna go check it out!
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hmm... it sounds like a good script...but...umm well hahah i have no idea how to run it....lol...do i just edit it to use my directory or something...and then just copy it in to gvim and save or ? sry!! im just new to scripts and stuff....(Linux in general but I wanna learn!!! sometime i dont have time and i skim wikis and make mistakes, but still hahaha
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copy, paste in whatever editor you like,
chmod 755 SCRIPT_NAME
./SCRIPT_NAME DIR_NAMEwhere SCRIPT_NAME is whatever you want to call your script, DIR_NAME is path do directory with your packages.
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copy, paste in whatever editor you like,
chmod 755 SCRIPT_NAME ./SCRIPT_NAME DIR_NAMEwhere SCRIPT_NAME is whatever you want to call your script, DIR_NAME is path do directory with your packages.
Thanx so much Ive been trying to do that for 2 weeks now! Could you please add those last two lines to the wiki..for all the other newbies...Thanx so much
EDIT: to burn this to a cd wut do i do? From what i understand Im supposed to create and burn an iso with the an /arch/pkg/ directory and put the custom.db.tar.gz file in the /arch/pkg directory on the cd. Thats what i understood from the wiki but hows pacman supposed to know where to retrive the files?
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Xentac also wrote a patch for gensync that does the samething, we've been using it on arch64 for a while now. it is here http://arch64.org/svn/trunk/current/base/pacman/
just get pacman.patch and pacman2.patch then build a custom pacman package using those 2 patches.
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ummm ya...i got it to where it will add the repository but it is not able to retreive packages from my directory
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Did you add your custom repo to pacman.conf?
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Did you add your custom repo to pacman.conf?
yes..I added it and it could not retrive the packages from the repository so I copied the custom.db.tar.gz into the folder where I put the packages and it was able to retrive the packages then however when i disable all repos except my custom repo and type pacman -S gnome it says it cannot find the packaged gnome. and the same for KDE ...how do i set it up so that it knows that when i say pacman -S gnome that i want the group gnome and not a package called gnome.??? :?:
p.s. i( used the script from the wiki to make the repo..this link is in this thread.)
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I put arch on one of my spare partions and Im testing to see if it works...even coping the packages into the /var/pacman/pkg directory does not help as pacman still asks you to refreash and w/o internet thats difficult...is there anyway around this?
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