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strake

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Registered: 2011-05-30

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laurel -- fetch, build, install packages, deeply

Since building packages from AUR, Hackage (with cabal2arch), and other such sources can be problematic and awkward, especially when they need other packages not in Arch repos, I wrote a tool to do this automatically: laurel.
laurel on Gitorious
laurel on AUR

laurel is not a full pacman wrapper; rather, it can only fetch, build, and install.
It does so deeply -- i.e, it fetches, builds, and installs the package itself, all those whom it needs, all those whom they need, and so on, and so forth.

This is highly unfinished software. It's yet quite slow (I shall profile as soon as I rebuild and reinstall all the libraries) but it ought to work.

Please tell me any problems, faults, &c. Help is quite welcome!

Edit: P.S. Forgot to mention: ABS module seems yet broken -- not quite sure why.

Last edited by strake (2011-07-07 17:17:51)

tomk

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Re: laurel -- fetch, build, install packages, deeply

I'm not a fan of AUR helpers, but I have to ask - what does "deeply" refer to in your thread title?

strake

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Re: laurel -- fetch, build, install packages, deeply

Deep: the package, those it needs, those they need, &c.

Added clarification to original post.

tomk

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Re: laurel -- fetch, build, install packages, deeply

OK thanks - never heard dependencies described that way before.