Arch package building

This is an mr setup that automates certain aspects of arch linux package building.

mr is a tool that lets you perform the same action (say, a git pull) on a collection of directories, and even parallelize it!

These config files add actions to mr to run makepkg on a collection of directories, and update a local pacman repo with the built packages, so they can be installed with pacman -Sy.

Overview

• abs/: packages from arch abs. They are not versioned in this repo.
• aur/: I pull PKGBUILDs from AUR here before building. I use cower for that.
• bin/: some useful scripts.
• devel/: everything I build from git goes here.
• groups/: symlinks to several groups of packages. eg. python, elisp, etc.
• habs/: a git submodule with arch haskell abs.
• misc/: packages not fitting anywere else. binaries, or fonts, or whatever.
• mingw/: mingw cross compiler tools and libs
• mirrors/: mirrorlist file.
• pkgbuild/: some PKGBUILD templates I use.
• mrcommon: the main code for the new mr actions.
• build/: Where packages are build. I symlink this to a temp dir not on the SSD.
• repos/: Where the pacman repos are kept. I also symlink this somewhere else.

In aur, devel and misc, individual packages are kept in its own git repo, this way I can keep track of modifications I make to individual packages.

Configuration

There are some paths to be configured in mrcommon.

• archdir: absolute path to the root of this mr tree
• builddir: absolute path to where we will compile the code (defaults to $archdir/build)
• repodir: absolute path to where we will build the pacman local repos (defaults to $archdir/repos)
• pkgbuilddir: absolute path to where the PKGBUILD templates are (defaults to $archdir/pkgbuild)

mr commands

• build a package if it needs building

    mr build
  

• rebuild a package unconditionally

    mr rebuild
  

• repackage binaries without rebuilding

    mr repackage
  

• add build package to the corresponding pacman repo

    mr repoadd
  

• remove package from the corresponding pacman repo

    mr repodel
  

• install package

    mr install
  

• install dependencies for the package

    mr installdeps
  

• bump pkgrel

    mr bump
  

• build package and update pacman repo

    mr update
  

TODO

• I'd like to publish my misc and devel PKGBUILD's but I also find it useful to keep them separate each one into its own repo. hmm...