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Cew27

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Registered: 2008-06-16

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abs and aur questions?

when i download a package from pacman is it compiling source or fetching a binary?, also is this the same with yaourt and the aur?
what is abs used for?

bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: abs and aur questions?

pacman: binaries from official repos
abs: to build official repos packages from source with PKGBUILDs+makepkg
aur: unofficial PKGBUILDs

further info: man pages+wiki

Cew27

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Registered: 2008-06-16

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Re: abs and aur questions?

what binaries does arch use? i am only aware or rpm packages and debian

Stythys

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Re: abs and aur questions?

pacman is a unique package system...it doesn't use anyone else's package format.

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pressh

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Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: abs and aur questions?

what binaries does arch use? i am only aware or rpm packages and debian

arch uses its own .pkg.tar.gz binaries, which are basically just tar.gz archives.

Cew27

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Re: abs and aur questions?

ok thanks