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merc64

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Registered: 2006-12-19

Posts: 8

good first ABS project

I want to compile my own options into my kernel, but the docs are a little confusing and recommend building something else in ABS first.  I've read several ABS docs, but I still can't come up with any good package to build in ABS.  Any recommendations?

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: good first ABS project

make a /var/abs/local dir  and give rw permissions to your user.  go to /var/abs/path/to/the/package/you/want/to/compile/ & copy all the files from there to /var/abs/local/packagename/. then edit the PKGBUILD &(or) the .install file to your needs. run makepkg inside that dir. run pacman -A package

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