On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:12:11AM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > clear on: > > Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is > simply a directory where the package will be made or "built" and can > be any directory. Examples of commonly used directories are: > > ~/builds > > Now when I create the "~/builds" directory, does it matter if I do > this in a regular user's home directory or in 'roots'? It is not very > clear and I don't want to break anything or improperly build a package > from AUR. Safer to do it in a place that regular users can write to, and to do all your makepkg-ing as a non-root user. You only need root privileges for the actual install step. You could do a makepkg followed by a sudo pacman -U packageyoumade-1.0.0-1-arch.pkg.tar.gz. Or you could do "makepkg -i" in the first place, then makepkg will try to install the package if it manages to build it successfully. (I think it will prompt you for a sudo password at the end for the actual installation. Though perhaps this is only in the makepkg wrapper I wrote on my own machines.) -- Jim Pryor profjim@xxxxxxxxxxxx
