Download the whole AUR repo

Alexvader · 2009-09-14 20:25:47

Hi Forum

I will have unlimited broadband access for the next month or so... but I am not sure I will still have fast internet access shortly after that...

I have already downloaded the core community and extra repos, since i plan to install an ArchLinux system.

Is it possible to fetch the whole of the AUR packages for the x86_64 architecture...?

Some sort of wget -r -p http://whatever... ?

Thanks in advance

Alex

wonder · 2009-09-14 20:28:40

AUR is not a binary repo. you will end up downloading PKGBUILDs

Alexvader · 2009-09-14 20:43:39

Hi Wonder

Thx for your reply,...

You mean that dowloading AUR would ammont to the same as performing make fetch-recursive in a BSD system ( filling all the ports tree with the source files prior to compilation ) ?

What are PKGBUILDS... ? forgive my ignorance but I am only familiarized with the rpm systm from RHEL/Fedora/Suse/CentOS/Scientific Linux the deb system from Ubuntu/Debian and the ports from BSDs...

I am a N00b in ArchLinux, started long ago with RHEL 4.0 and "transited" to Debian and FreeBSD ( the best ones I have seen so far...) I am now trying Arch... seems like a very clean/fast system... although not very n00b friendly.... :-)

Are PKGBUILDS some sort of ports... ( source code...) for Arch...?

Would it ammount to a lot of disk space downloading AUR...? I ask this because i have the whole debian lenny distro... 5 DVDs, as well as the whole Hardy Ubuntu... 6 DVDs... but they only ship binaries in their *.debs... the only source code is shipped in their *.dev packages ( library headers... )

Would it take too much in HDD?

Is it some sort of ports tree...?

Thanks in advance

Alex

wonder · 2009-09-14 20:50:30

PKGBUILD is a file that pacman/makepkg use for compiling binary packages, like spec is to rpm.
Personally i wouldn't download all AUR because you don't need it at all. I suggest to search for a package that you need(and is not in the official repositories) and download the tarball(where PKGBUILD is). Not to mention that in AUR are unsupported packages.

tomk · 2009-09-14 21:01:10

Nothing to do with the testing repo, moving to Newbie Corner.

Alexvader, please read the relevant pages in the wiki, and then decide what you want to do. All the details you require are there.

some-guy94 · 2009-09-14 22:53:07

Install aur-sync

fukawi2 · 2009-09-14 23:04:36

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

Downloading the AUR won't save you any bandwidth since:
1) you'll still have to download source tarballs when you come to compiling a package from the AUR that you want.
2) PKGBUILD's are text files only a couple of KB each. The biggest PKGBUILD I have is 3.7Kb so with 16,672 packages currently in the AUR, that's only about 60mb. By the time you include install files, rc-scripts etc my best estimate is the AUR is less than 250mb. But you're unlikely to install even 1% of the available AUR packages and see point #1 above.

Last edited by fukawi2 (2009-09-14 23:05:22)

xduugu · 2009-09-14 23:48:43

Your first guess was not that bad, fukawi2.

$ du -bsh aur
68M aur
$ du -sh aur
120M aur

But this directory contains tarballs, not uncompressed files.

Beini · 2009-09-14 23:54:34

fukawi2 wrote:

Downloading the AUR won't save you any bandwidth since:
1) you'll still have to download source tarballs when you come to compiling a package from the AUR that you want.

Well, he could use something like recursive makepkg --allsource

But I'm not saying he should...

fukawi2 · 2009-09-15 00:04:24

xduugu wrote:

Your first guess was not that bad, fukawi2.
$ du -bsh aur
68M aur
$ du -sh aur
120M aur
But this directory contains tarballs, not uncompressed files.

Well I was only working off the dozen or so packages I look after and taking them as being "average"

find aur -name \*.tar.gz -exec gunzip {} \;
du -sh aur

Beini wrote:

Well, he could use something like recursive makepkg --allsource
But I'm not saying he should...

*insert link to "those dumb computing mistakes" thread*

xduugu · 2009-09-15 08:42:21

fukawi2 wrote:

xduugu wrote:
Your first guess was not that bad, fukawi2.
$ du -bsh aur
68M aur
$ du -sh aur
120M aur
But this directory contains tarballs, not uncompressed files.
Well I was only working off the dozen or so packages I look after and taking them as being "average"
find aur -name \*.tar.gz -exec gunzip {} \;
du -sh aur

$ du -sh aur
288M aur
$ du -bsh aur
193M aur

Alexvader · 2009-09-15 17:55:49

Hi Ppl

Thanks for all the answers... :-)

I think I am begining to undestand the way to to things in Arch...

It is a mix between Linux and BSD...

I'll be around for the difficulties that come up...

I have installed a new machine with LVM encrypted fs, It will be holding the "sensible" stuff like engineering project specs and stuff...

Once more , thkz.

Alex

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