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huygens

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Registered: 2007-11-06

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Get Pacman to know the Sources I want to install!?

Hi Folks!
I just managed to set up my Archlinux after some weeks of trial'n'error. Now its running quite well and I have some time to freak around with it.
I hope i will spend a nice time here in this forum, as i already did in the Ubuntu-Community. Linux-user seem to be a kind of generous, nice people who (most often) tell you anything you need to know
But now something about my Problem:

I'm interested in installing the newest version of tor (1.2.18), but pacman only knows about the .17-version. I thought ABS would be the right thing to get the most recent version, but a

makepkg

loads the 1.2.17-Sources, too.
How can I install the recent version (from the sources!?), but keep able to delete it using pacman?
Becaus if I do ./configure && make && make install pacman won't know anything about to, won't it?

thank you!

greetings
huygens

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Get Pacman to know the Sources I want to install!?

After you run ABS, you have to modify the PKGBUILD to grab the new sources before you do makepkg. (usually just by changing the pkgver variable)

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-11-06 19:15:31)

huygens

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Re: Get Pacman to know the Sources I want to install!?

I already tried this, but as it seems the tor-ftps are down. There was trouble with the connection.
Is there a possibility to download the source manually and extract to it where it is needed?

Cerebral

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Re: Get Pacman to know the Sources I want to install!?

If you download the source manually, just stick it in the same dir as the PKGBUILD - makepkg will pick it up automatically.

huygens

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Re: Get Pacman to know the Sources I want to install!?

What a pity....
There's no 1.2.18 available on the net. All downloads stuck.
BTW why isn't the new version of tor included in the pacman paketlists?
I thought there would always be the newest version in the repos.

Thanks for your help
huygens

Cerebral

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Re: Get Pacman to know the Sources I want to install!?

BTW why isn't the new version of tor included in the pacman paketlists?
I thought there would always be the newest version in the repos.

We do our best, but we can't personally keep track of every app in our repos - sometimes we depend on the users to flag applications as out-of-date, so we're notified.  Since you knew tor was an older version, you could have searched for it on the front-page, and clicked the "flag out-of-date" on that package's page to let us know.

I didn't see any announcement of the new release, and I also didn't see any change in the release notes on Tor's homepage - this was a pretty silent version, and I guess we didn't realize it was there.  *shrug*

mykey

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Registered: 2007-03-02

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Re: Get Pacman to know the Sources I want to install!?

The update was announced on the mailing list - you can download sources here:
http://www.torproject.org/dist/tor-0.1.2.18.tar.gz
Figure out the checksum of the new package - adjust the PKGBUILD and 'makepkg' will supply you with a working package for archlinux - no sweat