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Hello, I'm looking for a way to recompile arch linux (fresh install) for my hardware and compile a select few applications like xorg-server, my desktop environment which is kde, and a few applications here and there with dependency resolution as kde is pretty large and takes an hr or so on my system to compile at least on gentoo anyway.
But I don't need to compile EVERYTHING from source which is why I'm moving away from gentoo, I find the arch linux core system (before you add on to it) to be pretty sane.
I am aware of tools like abs and pacbuilder, but I've had some issues with pacbuilder in the past where it get's into a loop and can't move on without me just using pacman (beats the purpose if you want the package and it's dependencies compiled..)
So I'm looking for the best way to go about basically recompiling arch linux after the installation, and managing dependencies.
Is there a tool I maybe missing?
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ABS and srcpac
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Is srcpac still being developed? The last commits are about 2 years old.. It might not be compatible with the latest upstream arch changes, and gcc 4.8. I could be wrong though.
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Honestly, I haven't actually tried it for anything more than a package or two. But it seems to work at the most pasic of levels still. It is just a bash wrapper, so if it is borked in some way, you could always try to fix it.
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Yes, srcpac works and is one of the best pacman wrappers available, as far as I am concerned. It is also really well written and easily hackable!
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Build package in a clean chroot, using devtools. It'll allow you to compile packages (using ABS) just like the devs do -- in a controlled environment, where the only things installed are the base system, the package's dependencies, and the build-time dependencies (including base-devel). It'll stop you running into problems with "greedy" autodetect configure scripts compiling in unwanted features.
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Yes, srcpac works and is one of the best pacman wrappers available, as far as I am concerned. It is also really well written and easily hackable!
Although this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1279612 has been marked solved by OP, I'd like to know what have I done wrong, because unfortunately srcpac doesn't seem to work for me.
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