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AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

question about makeworld & pacman -Syu

I'm thinking about a makeworld over my entire distribution. From what I have found here in the forum makeworld just recompiles every package and if I give it the switch it will install the package.

But I have to export all packages to a public repo so everyone can do a "pacman -Syu" to update the packages. I'm not sure if pacman will see the packages are newer because they will have the same pkgrel number.

How is the right way to go?

AndyRTR

Developer

From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: question about makeworld & pacman -Syu

I've written a small script that will increment the pkgrel x to x+0.1 so the new pkg in the repo will be catched by a pacman -Syu for everyone.

#!/bin/bash

DESTDIR=/home/andyrtr/daten/arch64/packages/current
#DESTDIR=/home/andyrtr/daten/arch64/packages/extra
#DESTDIR=/home/andyrtr/daten/arch64/packages/community
#DESTDIR=/home/andyrtr/daten/arch64/packages/testing

REBUILDROOT=/home/andyrtr/daten/arch64/svn/rebuild/trunk/

# set it to what category you want to build
REBUILDDIR=current/lib

cd $REBUILDROOT/$REBUILDDIR

# incementing pkgrel=x to x+0.1
for PACKAGE in `ls -1`; do
    cd $PACKAGE
        PKGREL=`cat PKGBUILD | grep pkgrel | cut -d"=" -f2`
        PKGRELNEW=`echo "$PKGREL+0.1" | bc`
        sed -i "s/pkgrel=$PKGREL/pkgrel=$PKGRELNEW/g" PKGBUILD
    cd ..
done

cd $REBUILDROOT
makeworld $DESTDIR $REBUILDDIR

#makeworld version 2.9.8
#
#Usage: /usr/bin/makeworld [options] <destdir> <category> [category] ...
#
#Options:
#  -b, --builddeps  Build missing dependencies from source
#  -c, --clean      Clean up work files after build
#  -d, --nodeps     Skip all dependency checks
#  -f, --force      Overwrite existing packages
#  -i, --install    Install package after successful build
#  -h, --help       This help
#  -r, --rmdeps     Remove installed dependencies after a successful build
#  -s, --syncdeps   Install missing dependencies with pacman
#
#These options can be passed to pacman:
#
#  --noconfirm      Do not ask for confirmation when resolving dependencies
#  --noprogressbar  Do not show a progress bar when downloading files
#
#Where <category> is one or more directory names under the ABS root
#eg: makeworld -c /packages base lib editors
#
#This should be run from the toplevel directory of ABS (usually /var/abs)

It would be nice if such an option would be added to makeworld in a future pacman release.

AndyRTR