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graysky

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From: :wq

Registered: 2008-12-01

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pacman and makepkg to manage /home/facade/public as a system root

Seems like an odd question but here goes: how can I use pacman and makepkg to manage packages to /home/facade/public rather than to the live system root?  In short, I want to keep newer versions of some software in that location specifically as the system root and I want to have pacman manage the files and makepkg do the building.

I can manually build things by throwing in the following:

make DESTDIR=/home/facade/public install

but again, pacman will not help me keep book on files that get installed by the native make install step.  I hope my question makes sense.

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,459

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Re: pacman and makepkg to manage /home/facade/public as a system root

Do you want a full chroot'able system at /home/facade/public, or just the select package files?  The former would certainly be reasonably easy; the latter I'm not so sure.

If the latter, a follow-up question: assuming there was a way for pacman to install something there, would you want the package file to be cached at /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ or /home/facade/public/var/pacman/pkg/ ?

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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,089

Re: pacman and makepkg to manage /home/facade/public as a system root

graysky,

have you looked at using the RootDir= option of pacman ?

you should also look up DBPath and LogFile options.

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Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.

clean chroot building not flexible enough ?
Try clean chroot manager by graysky