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#1 2009-03-03 20:03:02
- graysky
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creating pacman package under another distro (debian)?
Can someone point me to a guide that teaches how one can make a pacman package/PKGBUILD under a non-Arch distro such as debian? Is this possible?
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#2 2009-03-03 21:16:08
- mcmillan
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Re: creating pacman package under another distro (debian)?
Making the PKGBUILD is no different than writing it in Arch, it's just a text file that contains all the instructions for builidng. If you need more info, the wiki is helpful.
As for building it, it looks like makepkg is a bash script. I haven't had a chance to look it over very carefully, but the simplest case would be if it works just copying the makepkg script and the configuration in /etc/makepkg.conf over to your other system.
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#3 2009-03-03 21:18:32
- Allan
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Re: creating pacman package under another distro (debian)?
As for building it, it looks like makepkg is a bash script. I haven't had a chance to look it over very carefully, but the simplest case would be if it works just copying the makepkg script and the configuration in /etc/makepkg.conf over to your other system.
Correct, except makepkg uses pacman for dependancy checking. I guess you could run "makepkg -d" to ignore it and then "should" be fine...
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#4 2009-03-03 21:45:32
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Re: creating pacman package under another distro (debian)?
Cool thanks for the info
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