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Snoop05

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[Solved] Source-based Arch Linux? (ABS)

Hello, i tried Gentoo, because under certain conditions, building everything from source has advantage over generic binaries. But Gentoo was pain. Documentation was uncomplete and outdated (as well as most important packages).

Is there some way that can get arch sources for all installed packages and rebuild whole system from source with user specified compilation flags? I was looking at ABS, but i still not found an "emerge -e world" equivalent.

Some official archlinux tool will be awesome or is there any 3rd party portage clone for archlinux that is compatible with pacman?

Thanks for help

Last edited by Snoop05 (2015-08-15 11:44:38)

karol

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Re: [Solved] Source-based Arch Linux? (ABS)

Try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacbuilder
Why do you want to do this?

Edit: Please read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … ow_to_post

Last edited by karol (2015-08-15 11:36:00)

Snoop05

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Re: [Solved] Source-based Arch Linux? (ABS)

Why i want to do it? Build optimization makes real difference on small, not so powerful systems, also i can use all instructions that are offered by specific CPU.

You can't imagine how much thankful i am.

Sorry for that, i will check the forum etiquette

karol

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Re: [Solved] Source-based Arch Linux? (ABS)

There's also https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=srcpac

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] Source-based Arch Linux? (ABS)

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...

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Snoop05

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Re: [Solved] Source-based Arch Linux? (ABS)

Which one do you prefer? Taking in mind compatibility with current version of pacman

Last srcpac is 15 months old, pacbuilder seems more updated

karol

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Re: [Solved] Source-based Arch Linux? (ABS)

I've only tried srcpac - 2 years ago - and it was a bit broken back then, but it may have been fixed since: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36140