Hi Polarian,
Thanks for the quick response, and yes, I am looking to host binaries
that pacman can pull. I'm interested in learning what pacman expects
when it comes to file layout -- i.e the developer or reference
documentation.
Thanks for the pointers -- downloaded the community.db from Archlinux,
and am busy poking it now. I'll also checkout your mirror.
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On the wiki pages -- happy to know I'm not just horribly stupid, I am
very surprised honestly, as I've found Archlinux's wiki pages impeccable
when it comes to information about the distro in the past.
Kind Regards,
Paul Stemmet
On 31/12/2022 22:37, Polarian wrote:
Hello,
Can I please clarify what you are asking.
So you would like to host a repo to distribute binaries in which
pacman can pull?
If so you can check the format of a mirror such as mine:
https://archmirror.polarian.dev
I do not remember the documentation page but from my memory in
/etc/pacman.conf at the bottom you see the list of repositories, you
can add your own:
[repo name]
Server = http(s)://url.tld/
All you got to do is serve binaries using a web server such as pacman.
You will need a package list, this I am not too sure about, what I
know about it is it is a .tar.gz named as <reponame>.db but is not
actually a database (inspected using the file command utility).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman
Might be useful to check the link above, but I am not sure it is here.
I remember finding this referenced in a few of the arch wiki pages,
but I am sorry I can't remember which they were (I have read a lot of
the arch wiki pages).
I will take a look and hopefully reply to this later on with a better
reply (if someone else doesn't get there before me).
Hope this helps in some way,
Polarian
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~Paul Stemmet
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