[SOLVED] Rebuilding all installed AUR packages

broken pipe · 2011-12-26 17:08:10

Hi guys,

before starting to hack some dirty script on my own i would like to know if there's already any program/script which looks up the list of packages, which were installed from aur: pacman -Qqm, and rebuilds/exports them?

the reason why i ask: i have several machines running on arch64 and i need 50+ built packages to serve them in the intranet.

best regards

Last edited by broken pipe (2011-12-26 20:25:12)

karol · 2011-12-26 17:14:02

Not sure what you mean by 'rebuilding', you can update the packages any way you want and share in a number of ways e.g. http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pacserve/
You can create a local repo and add it to pacman.conf on these machines.

broken pipe · 2011-12-26 18:33:05

thx karol, i'm already using pacserve to avoid downloading packages for each machine in the network.

what i want to do is: read the output of 'pacman -Qqm' and rebuild + export the pkgs

i did a little bash script to achieve this. but i have to admit i'm not good at scripting but i gave my best improvements are welcomed

#/bin/bash

pkglist=/tmp/pkglist
builddir=/dev/shm/$(date +%F)/
exportdir=~/aurpkgbuilds

# Create builddir
if [ ! -d "$builddir" ];then mkdir $builddir
fi

# Create exportdir
if [ ! -d "$exportdir" ];then mkdir $exportdir
fi

#	Getting the list of pkgs which were installed from AUR
pacman -Qqm > $pkglist

#	Edit the list?
read -p "Would you like to edit the list? (y/N) " edit
if test "$edit" = "y"; 	then
	$EDITOR	$pkglist
fi

for i in $(cat $pkglist); do
	cd $builddir
	wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/${i}/${i}.tar.gz
	tar xvfz ${i}.tar.gz
	cd ${i}
	makepkg -f
	mv *.pkg.tar.xz "$exportdir"
done


# Clean up
read -p "Would you like to remove the builddir? (y/N) " rmbuilddir
if test "$rmbuilddir" = "y"; then
	rm -rf $builddir
fi

exit 0

karol · 2011-12-26 18:57:51

What about dependencies? You have to build stuff in the correct order.

I still don't know why do you want to rebuild all the packages.

Proofrific · 2011-12-26 19:10:04

Your packages may still be in your pacman cache: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/. Then, you don't have to rebuild them. There's also the Arch Rollback Machine, which has old packages.

karol · 2011-12-26 19:12:34

@Proofrific
OP is talking about packages from the AUR.

broken pipe · 2011-12-26 19:52:58

thx for your responses!

rebuilding because i need them as pkg.tar.xz to redistribute them to 5 other machines running in the local network. needed pkgs will be added to a list, built and then added to a local repo

karol · 2011-12-26 19:57:12

But you have them already installed so why not use bacman from pacman-contrib?

broken pipe · 2011-12-26 20:24:48

ok thanks! never heard of it before ... rebuilding is imho cleaner than gathering sth up and repacking but this is more or less what i was looking for

karol · 2011-12-26 20:35:47

You can use makepkg's BUILDDIR and PKGDEST variables if you want.

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[SOLVED] Rebuilding all installed AUR packages

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