Hi Ralf, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Thank you Gaetan, thank you William, > > currently I have to manage 62 AUR packages, so using pacman only doesn't > provide what I need. I noticed that yaourt is a script, so I could take > a look at it, learn and include what I need to a wrapper for pacman, but > I don't like to do it that way. > > You seem to have reasons not to like yaourt that much. Is one of the > other helpers listed at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers > better? > > FWIW I want to have a cache for AUR packages, like there is for the > official packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg, linux-rt packages should be > stored to another directory. > Take a look at SRCDEST, PKGDEST, and SRCPKGDEST in /etc/makepkg.conf. If you want a different folder for specific packages, you can use an environment variable to override the default. So you can do something like this in the directory with the PKGBUILD: $ PKGDEST=~/aur/cache/linux-rt/ makepkg > I want to install linux and linux-rt headers first, because I need VBox > modules. > This is the only thing you might have to do manually or write a script for. > I want to add a history of what I've done when using pacman (and what > I've done using something to manage AUR packages, e.g. yaourt). > makepkg has a build log flag (-L or --log) and you can set LOGDEST in /etc/makepkg.conf. When your package is installed it will show up in pacman's logs because the only way to properly install it on your system is to call pacman -U /path/to/your/package. > That's all, perhaps an app already does provide this? > > Regards, > Ralf Best, Chirantan
