On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:37:20 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: >On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf ><ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >FWIW I'm using yaourt and usually it doesn't fail. There's just one >> >issue I encounter from time to time, but that also happens when >> >using makepkg. By default I set up makepkg to build in tmpfs and it >> >sometimes is too small. One time building a kernel failed, but >> >usually building default Arch kernels works with around 2 GiB >> >tmpfs. If I build a bloated web browser, such as e.g. firefox, the >> >around 2 GiB tmpfs don't provide the needed space. IMO building in >> >tmpfs isn't really faster, but I like it, because I don't need to >> >tidy up tmpfs ;). Btw. makepkg is set up to save the packages not >> >in the tmpfs, but in a cache to archive packages. >> >> My apologies. Just for fun I read the "Clean build" entry. >> >> That's correct! The setting to build in tmpfs is for yaourt, I just >> tend to run makepkg in tmpfs too. However, indeed, if it fails I >> build outside tmpfs using makepkg. >> > >I don't see your first email... I noticed it to, it's not in the archive, but since I quoted the mail, I guess there's no need to resent it. By accident I send the mail using the wrong account. >Anyway, if I were you I'd do something like: > >TMPDIR=/var/aur-build/ yaourt -S some-package >Package will be built in: /var/aur-build/yaourt-tmp-$USER/ >instead of in: /tmp/yaourt-tmp-$USER/ > >yaourt helpfully includes useful environment variables for exactly this >purpose. :) Thank you, that's a good idea. There are likely several features provided by yaourt I should use. Until now I used the abs command and copied from the abs directory to a build location and then used makepkg. Now I noticed that yaourt provides the -G option. Regards, Ralf
