[solved] pacman -U saving package

nTia89 · 2010-11-16 18:19:42

hi to all

sometime i install compiled packages by me with "makepkg" and then install it with "pacman -U"
in this way pacman don't save package in its cache.....so if i remove it, i can't install again without "original"

so my question is:
how can i tell to pacman to save the package in the cache ?

thanks

Last edited by nTia89 (2010-11-17 18:02:34)

Kosmonavt · 2010-11-16 19:57:27

You always can write a script which copies package into cache after pacman -U. But cache is thought as storage of packages downloaded from repository, not local ones. It's assumed that user, who built a package by hands, will figure out by himself where to save it.

Script like this (not tested):

#!/bin/sh

# check for PKGBUILD
if[ -e PKGBUILD ]; then
    # building package
    makepkg -i -s
    sudo cp *.xz /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
else
    echo "PKGBUILD not found"
    exit 1
fi

Last edited by Kosmonavt (2010-11-16 20:53:05)

Awebb · 2010-11-16 20:02:26

This might have hints: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ory_HOW-TO

Snowman · 2010-11-17 09:43:23

just set
PKGDEST=/var/cache/pacman/pkg
in your makepkg.conf

Mr. Alex · 2010-11-17 12:52:13

nTia89, why not save it manually in some local dir?

nTia89 · 2010-11-17 18:02:11

Snowman wrote:

just set
PKGDEST=/var/cache/pacman/pkg
in your makepkg.conf

thanks a lot, updated makepkg.conf

tomk · 2010-11-17 18:39:07

Thats a bad workaround IMO. /var/cache is only writable by root, so you'd have to run makepkg as root for it to work - and we all know that makepkg should not be run as root (don't we?).

Set PKGDEST to some dir under your $HOME, so all your locally built packages will be there if you need to reinstall them at any stage.

Allan · 2010-11-17 23:40:03

Or just give yourself permission to write to the cache directory...

But I do agree keeping your own packages separate from the cache is probably a good idea. Especially if you rebuild any of the ones from [core],[extra] etc as you could start getting conflicts.

nTia89 · 2010-11-18 07:55:29

compiled by me packages are very few and for testing some feature not included in archlinux release.....

with this i solve problem to save my compiled in my home and recompile packages when i remove it ....

Snowman · 2010-11-18 10:52:08

Allan wrote:

Or just give yourself permission to write to the cache directory...

I forgot to mention it but I've created on my system a build group that have access to the pacman cache and added my user to it.

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[solved] pacman -U saving package

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