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#1 2010-09-16 02:41:48
- onamattuphere
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[SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
Howdy.
This is my first attempt at installing AUR - wasn't as intimidating as I first thought and Exfalso working fine.
I would like to know if I can safely remove the build directory with all its files in order to maintain tidyness in my "/home"-dir?
Thank you.
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#2 2010-09-16 02:43:16
- codycarey
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Re: [SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
Yes you can, but I tend to create a directory just for custom packages and place the package directories there in case I need them later on.
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#3 2010-09-16 02:44:47
- warenoso
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Re: [SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
it is ok.
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#4 2010-09-16 04:50:26
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Re: [SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
makepkg has a -c option to do this automatically for you. I commonly like to use makepkg -sic:
-s = install dependencies
-i = install after (successful) build
-c = cleanup
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#5 2010-09-16 06:15:09
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Re: [SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
Thanks for great replies.
codycarey: Will it suffice to just store the pkg.tar.xz-file if I want to keep the package for future offline re-installs?
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#6 2010-09-16 06:22:50
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Re: [SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
Thanks for great replies.
codycarey: Will it suffice to just store the pkg.tar.xz-file if I want to keep the package for future offline re-installs?
Yeah, if you pacman -R the package and then want the exact same thing later on you can just pacman -U the *.tar.gz again.
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#7 2010-09-16 08:36:48
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Re: [SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
onamattuphere wrote:Thanks for great replies.
codycarey: Will it suffice to just store the pkg.tar.xz-file if I want to keep the package for future offline re-installs?
Yeah, if you pacman -R the package and then want the exact same thing later on you can just pacman -U the *.tar.gz again.
However if that's later on and your system has updated some libs the package depends on you may not be able to get it to work. Perhaps better (depending on the package) to keep a copy of the source, because some packages need recompiling to work (for example, the nvidia-beta drivers once a kernel updates need to be re-'compiled'.
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#8 2010-09-16 11:50:55
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Re: [SOLVED] OK to remove build directory after installing AUR package?
codycarey: Will it suffice to just store the pkg.tar.xz-file if I want to keep the package for future offline re-installs?
You might like to look at PKGDEST and SRCDEST in /etc/makepkg.conf to have makepkg store all your built packages in a common location for you.
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