Metapax: create your own metapackages or reconstruct installed pkgs

Xyne · 2008-08-20 07:40:40

I've moved the metapax info here: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/info/metapax

Last edited by Xyne (2008-11-13 07:18:20)

vkumar · 2008-11-06 23:48:27

nice

Xyne · 2008-11-07 00:43:25

*blows some dust off this thread*

Thanks vkumar. I thought this had gone completely unnoticed.

fflarex · 2008-11-07 02:49:41

Didn't comment here before because I haven't used it yet, but I bookmarked this thread for when I put together a new system (in a month or two). I think it will probably come in handy. Nice work.

Last edited by fflarex (2008-11-07 02:50:10)

DonVla · 2008-11-07 11:41:43

that's really nice.
i heard gentoo's portage supports this by default (i mean sort your packages in meta-groups for easier re-install).
good to have smth like that for arch.
thanks xyne

vlad

edenxavier · 2008-11-27 10:59:48

I've noticed while trying to do a system snapshot (metapax --system-snapshot), metapax would complain about not being able to reconstruct aur packages because it couldn't find /var/lib/pacman/local/abs/files. I think the files its trying to look for are actually in /var/lib/pacman/local/abs. Is there a way to specify a different directory for this action?

Xyne · 2008-11-27 15:38:09

@edenxavier

The problem was actually that the reconstruction subroutine was looking for "pkg" instead of "pkg-ver". I also found a second bug too, both of which should have been noticed a while ago.

Anyway, the problem should be fixed in the latest version.

ibendiben · 2009-01-11 23:51:06

This is a good idea, something for pacman contrib?

Xyne · 2009-01-12 00:05:47

Thanks ibendiben.

I want to see where my optdepends suggestion goes before this is considered for anything even pseudo-official.

Allan · 2009-01-12 00:59:51

We already have bacman to reconstruct packages in pacman-contrib but the metapkg idea might well be usable.

fijam · 2009-08-05 16:41:01

I encountered a bug in metapax. Since I do not know perl or regexp, I was unable to fix it.

./metapax --reconstruct autofs
Use of uninitialized value $pkg in concatenation (.) or string at ./metapax line 425, <GEN1> line 556.
Unable to open /var/lib/pacman/local/autofs-4.1.4-4-/files:No such file or directory

Notice the extra hyphen after 4.1.4-4.

I ended up using bacman.

Xyne · 2009-08-08 23:51:37

This should be fixed now.

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