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gabriel135

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Registered: 2024-03-29

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Package manager for Github

Hello everyone,
I'd like to know if there is something like a package manager for repos cloned from github. Like, it takes care of the packages I have downloaded (and maybe even builds them?), updates them if there is a new version or something. I would really appreciate one, because I download a lot from github, and things tend to get messy over time, not knowing what and when I downloaded stuff, where did I store the build, residual files, problems after a system update etc. If there is such a thing somewhere out there, I would be glad to know about it.

WorMzy

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Re: Package manager for Github

Could you elaborate? A cloned repo is not a package. Do you mean you're manually running e.g. './configure; make; make install'? Don't do that, write a PKGBUILD and have that pull the sources and build a package for you.

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gabriel135

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Registered: 2024-03-29

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Re: Package manager for Github

So the best would be to turn the cloned repo in a package? Can I then just add it to pacman, like some sort of local package?

loqs

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Re: Package manager for Github

You use a PKGBUILD to build a package from the repo.  pacman only manages packages.