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From: Minneapolis, MN

Registered: 2011-07-08

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Third times a charm: Pacman for OS X

A while ago I went looking for a way to use pacman on my laptop -- which runs OS X. I saw the previous attempts at making it happen, but it looks like those have fizzled out.

I've taken the previous efforts and mangled them to match how I want to use it myself, and I thought I'd make the results available to anybody else that might find it useful.

You can check it out at <http://www.archmac.org>.

At this point, it's just a basic OS X installer package that gets you makepkg and pacman (and the prerequisites) so you can turn your PKGBUILDs into binaries.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Third times a charm: Pacman for OS X

I'm interested in if what patching (if any) you needed to get pacman building and makepkg running.  We can probably get them in the pacman code base.

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toofishes

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Re: Third times a charm: Pacman for OS X

I'm also very interested (Allan and I are both pacman/makepkg developers). Definitely get in touch with us with any problems/issues you run into, especially in the git version if you have tried that out at all. Your input is definitely welcome on the pacman-dev ML.

triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

Posts: 630

Re: Third times a charm: Pacman for OS X

this looks great

being as i only use Arch and OSX - this is definitely up my alley!

thanks for posting, awesomeness

cheerz