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#1 2009-10-09 18:04:44
- StanIsTheMan
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Creating Pacman groups
I am new with Arch .... And I have a set of PKBUILD's, and I would like to create a custom group.... So when I build the packages, I would like to be able to install all of them as a group. I must be missing a wiki page, or overlooked something....
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#2 2009-10-09 18:18:56
- ataraxia
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Re: Creating Pacman groups
You just need to set the "groups" array in the PKGBUILDs. The group is "created" as soon as a package is installed that uses it, that's all there is to it. A package group isn't a real object that exists outside of its members.
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#3 2009-10-09 18:28:01
- StanIsTheMan
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Re: Creating Pacman groups
So ... if I "pacman -U" my package, will it pull all of the others within the group..? ... Is it dynamic this way...? Do all of my packages need to be in the same directory...?
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#4 2009-10-09 19:22:36
- Garns
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Re: Creating Pacman groups
-S, --sync
[snip]
In addition to packages, groups can be specified as well. For example, if gnome is a defined package group, then pacman -S gnome will install every package in the gnome group, as well as the dependencies of those packages.
I think you may want to set up a local repo.
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#5 2009-10-09 21:18:52
- ataraxia
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Re: Creating Pacman groups
Garns is right, package groups are not useful for installing packages unless they are in a repo.
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#6 2009-10-09 21:33:43
- shining
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Re: Creating Pacman groups
But Garns is always right ! 
pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))
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#7 2009-10-09 22:37:12
- Garns
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Re: Creating Pacman groups
But Garns is always right !
How the ... did you get that impression? 
Would be nice if it was true .
PS: If I am always right, what will happen when I say that I am not always right?
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#8 2009-10-10 03:20:18
- StanIsTheMan
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Re: Creating Pacman groups
Thanks ... I'll look into the local repo. I was suspecting something like this, but wasn't sure.
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