[SOLVED] An easy way to manage custom repos inside pacman.conf ?

buttcake · 2017-05-18 14:03:09

Is there an easy way to manipulate repos inside /etc/pacman.conf without manually editing the file ? Should I just use sed and friends and make myself a script ?

Last edited by buttcake (2017-05-20 16:10:02)

Alad · 2017-05-18 14:07:19

Include = /etc/pacman.d/custom

pacconf --repo=foo --repo=bar (...) > /etc/pacman.d/custom

buttcake · 2017-05-18 15:28:31

Ohh, sorry for not being more explicit. I was thinking more along the lines of adding and deleting unnoficial repos.

Scimmia · 2017-05-18 15:37:19

"without manually editing the file"

Full stop. If something changed pacman.conf automatically, I would be pretty unhappy.

ewaller · 2017-05-18 16:00:12

Scimmia wrote:

"If something changed pacman.conf automatically, I would be pretty unhappy.

Copy that.

Alad · 2017-05-18 19:47:57

buttcake wrote:

Ohh, sorry for not being more explicit. I was thinking more along the lines of adding and deleting unnoficial repos.

Put all of them in some separate file you point pacconf to, then redirect the output to the include file. But this sounds like an xy problem, so tell us why you're actually trying to do this.

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Trilby · 2017-05-18 20:09:53

Definitely an XY Problem. Why is "manually editting" a file of 1-2 dozen lines a problem? Instead of just opening it in $EDITOR, you'd rather write some script to edit it for you? Why??

buttcake · 2017-05-20 11:28:14

I'm trying to make a post install script which I can run to configure and install most of the stuff I use on a daily basis.
I need vim-tiny from the herecura repo and qt development packages from kde-unstable so at the end I'd have to have [kde-unstable],[herecura-testing],[testing],[herecura],[core],[extra],[community-testing] and [community] enabled in that order.

Trilby · 2017-05-20 11:31:33

So just copy a pacman.conf over to the new system. Or use a heredocument and just overwrite the existing conf.

buttcake · 2017-05-20 11:58:23

Yeah but pacman.conf defaults change over time don't they ? Wouldn't it be safer to automatically modify a new one instead of overwriting with an old copy ?

fsckd · 2017-05-20 12:06:59

They usually do not change. Here is the history: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … ges/pacman

Slithery · 2017-05-20 12:16:32

You could use awk to delete 3 (or comment 2) lines every time it finds a line beginning with [ (to remove all existing active repos) and then append your repo list to the end of the file.

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Trilby · 2017-05-20 12:40:26

Or just delete all repos, and add back whatever you want in watever order

sed -i '/^\[c/,$d' /etc/pacman.conf
cat <<EOF >> /etc/pacman.conf
[myrepo1]
Server = https://whate.ver/repo

[core]
Include = ...
EOF

luceph · 2017-05-20 13:37:32

What other option could you possibly be looking for other than having scripts to add or remove lines from the file? And if you know that answer, then problem solves

buttcake · 2017-05-20 16:09:22

Sorry for making this confusing for everyone. I was just wondering if there's a streamlined tool or an option available in one of the tools available for arch. I will go the sed way, probably the way Trilby suggested. Thank you for the help.

Alad · 2017-05-20 16:31:41

Yes, there is... as I indicated already in post #2/6. But nothing prevents you from taking the hard way.

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