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b0g

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Registered: 2011-02-18

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building an entire package (group?) from source

is there a way to install an entire package group from source,
for example if i want to recompile everything that gets installed while doing
pacman -S gnome,
doing
yaourt -Sb gnome
reinstall all binary packages and doesn't compile the abs packages,

thanks..

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: building an entire package (group?) from source

Not with pacman. In fact I don't know if any wrapper will allow you to install from source.

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milomouse

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Registered: 2009-03-24

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Re: building an entire package (group?) from source

if i understand correctly, you may want `bauerbill --abs -S gnome', which can download source of each package (or group) specified and build according to your prompted PKGBUILD edits.

$ bauerbill --abs -S gnome
:: group gnome (including ignored packages):
   [extra]
     epiphany gnome-applets gnome-backgrounds gnome-control-center gnome-desktop gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring
     gnome-media gnome-mime-data gnome-panel gnome-screensaver gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon gnome-terminal
     gnome-themes gnome2-user-docs metacity nautilus notification-daemon yelp
:: Install whole content? [Y/n] y
:: ABS Repo Packages:
   [extra]
     epiphany gnome-applets gnome-backgrounds gnome-control-center gnome-desktop gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring
     gnome-media gnome-mime-data gnome-panel gnome-screensaver gnome-session gnome-settings-daemon gnome-terminal
     gnome-themes gnome2-user-docs metacity nautilus notification-daemon yelp
:: Build all? [Y/n] y
--> Loading ABS taurball data...
--> Checking for abs archive updates for the following repos: [extra]
WARNING: about to source /howl/make/extra/gnome-settings-daemon/PKGBUILD
view [v]  backup [b]  edit [e]  continue [ok]  skip [s]  abort [x]  

etc for each package.