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dewid2

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Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

Hi, I was about to build an AUR package (firefox-wayland) with makepkg, but the process took so extremely long that I cancelled. However, there were numerous packages installed by makepkg before actually trying to build the package (maybe 40 if I remember right). Now that I dont need them anymore, I want to uninstall them, but cannot find an easy way on Arch. I looked around and found
pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq)
but it only lists 20 packages. Is there a way to completely revert the installation process of firefox-wayland on Arch?

bangkok_manouel

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Re: Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

 -r, --rmdeps     Remove installed dependencies after a successful build

edit: nvm, that's before you build

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2019-05-04 07:40:13)

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Re: Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

Also consider building in a clean chroot in the future:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … ean_chroot
OT: Nice Denglisch title, by the way.

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dewid2

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Re: Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

ok so all dependencies are installed into the chroot and i can delete them later easily. but if i have build the package, some runtime dependencies are needed still. will pacman resolve those then? with pacman its very easy to uninstall packages and their dependencies with pacman -Rcs and i have used that a few times successfully already.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

runtime dependencies are added at install time by pacman.

Incase you want to build on live system, I've found using makepkg -Crs helps a lot with keeping system clean.

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Re: Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

... packages installed by makepkg before actually trying to build the package (maybe 40 if I remember right)...

pacman -Rsn $(pacman -Qdtq)
but it only lists 20 packages.

Most likely the other ~20 are optional dependencies for packages you already had installed, so they are not listed by -Qdtq.  You could use -Qdttq, but this could have the opposite problem and list a few packages that you would want to keep.  Personally, I ensure optional deps that I actually want are explicitly installed to avoid this situation so it's always safe to remove everything listed by -Qdttq on my system.

To be on the safe side, get the -Qdttq list, then review the list before removing everything on it.

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dewid2

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Re: Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

Thanks for your tips! Now that i know how to build a minimum viable setup for me, i plan on starting again, not repeating some of the mistakes i made i.e.: Installing regular packages as root (killed my efi partition once, but managed to repair it with the live usb again), not adding disk encryption etc.

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Re: Keeping the system clean after building an AUR package mit makepkg

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