arch and checkinstall?

lang2 · 2006-03-28 18:38:04

During the days of Slackware, I use checkinstall a lot, the benifit of which is that
you can later on use 'removepkg' to remove it.

Can I do the same for Arch? Or is it not recommended?

Thanks,

mpie · 2006-03-28 18:49:32

man pacman
man makepkg
man abs

wiki.wiki,wiki

lang2 · 2006-03-28 19:20:08

Yes yes. I know. Just in case there *are* software that at not in Arch or ABS, is
it possible?

Thanks,

lang2

elasticdog · 2006-03-28 19:26:21

I think you might be misunderstanding the point of using ABS. Basically it allows you to compile things by hand, but if you do so by putting the commands into a PKGBUILD file with the required format, you are then able to generate a package based off your build instructions that can be managed by Pacman. You do this by issuing the <code>makepkg</code> command in the directory of your PKGBUILD file.

Therefore, if it's not in the official repos, or in the AUR or additional repos, you always have to option of creating a package yourself, and still having it managed by the package management system. Definitely read up on the aspects of Arch that mpie mentioned...those should help you out immensily.

stavrosg · 2006-03-28 19:26:53

there is a script that doeas that, called creapkg. its in AUR itself.

lang2 · 2006-03-28 20:29:03

elasticdog:
Thanks. Actually, the package I want to compile is inside the testing repo (vim7). However, I'd like to use special configuration to compile.

stavrosg:
Thanks too. Is there manual for this tool?

EAD · 2006-03-28 20:35:11

amm ABS and PACMAN are GREAT :!: you really have a lot of power with out doing some nesty things to your OS, the idea behind it is very good, I can compile my own Kernel very easy and even make it so other friends of mine will enjoy it too :idea:

DDspeed · 2006-03-28 21:29:30

Writing PKGBUILDs by hand is very simple job, neer took me more then 5 minutes to create it. And that's basically my way of installing applications not in the repos/aur.

elasticdog · 2006-03-28 23:10:38

lang2 wrote:

elasticdog:
Thanks. Actually, the package I want to compile is inside the testing repo (vim7). However, I'd like to use special configuration to compile.

That shouldn't be a problem, just view the vim-devel CVS entry from the unstable repo (I didn't see it in testing), copy the PKGBUILD and other files to your machine, customize them however you want, run <code>makepkg</code> in the same directory as those files, and install the resulting package with pacman:

# pacman -U vim-devel-7.0228-1.pkg.tar.gz

Also note that if you want to have the unstable PKGBUILDs downloaded automatically for you to the <code>/var/abs/</code> directory like the other repos, all you have to do is update your abs config file: <code>/etc/abs/abs.conf</code> and then run the <code>abs</code> command again to grab them all.

lang2 · 2006-03-29 07:25:42

thanks elasticdog!
That sounds good.

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arch and checkinstall?

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