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otacon

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Porting Packages

I would like to know more of what makes an archlinux package just that... archlinux. I figure the best way is to just jump in and try to port a program into archlinux to find the differences between linux programs.

My question is if I have the source code of a program that was made for an OS like debian and CentOS.. how would I even start my path to making it compatible with Arch?

Last edited by otacon (2011-04-06 01:00:08)

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ngoonee

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Re: Porting Packages

You would start by searching for information rather than simply asking a question here. The words you're looking for are PKGBUILD and makepkg.

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ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: Porting Packages

You would start by searching for information rather than simply asking a question here. The words you're looking for are PKGBUILD and makepkg.

Let me embellish -- don't search just this forum, search the wiki. 

Do a sudo pacman -S abs

It will pull down the PKGBUILDs for the entire tree and put them in /var/abs 
You can use them to build anything available in pacman on your own.  Start by standing on the shoulders or giants -- study any of the PKGBUILDs in abs

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