FS#8493 - Use ABS like pacman?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jason Robinson (archuser) - Saturday, 03 November 2007, 09:29 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 03 November 2007, 18:45 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

To be able to use ABS just like pacman so instead of downloading packages from a repo it would download (or copy from local abs tree) the PKGBUILD file, sources, etc and then build the package. Just an automatic way really instead of having to manually make directories, copy the necessary files over and running makepkg.

Pacman way: pacman -S package_1 (downloads pre-built package)

ABS way: abs -S package_1 (builds package from source)

So in essence ABS and Pacman are exactly the same to use.

I suppose this is like Gentoo's portage system but I've never used it.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 03 November 2007, 18:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  there are several community solutions already avaiulable.
Comment by Christopher Stanton (Stanto) - Saturday, 03 November 2007, 12:40 GMT
Like aurbuild? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=1775&O=0&L=0&C=0&K=aurbuild&SB=n&SO=a&PP=25&do_MyPackages=0&do_Orphans=0&SeB=nd
Comment by Scott H (stonecrest) - Saturday, 03 November 2007, 17:13 GMT
yaourt -G does this too, it fetches pkgbuilds (and associated files) from both AUR and official repos.

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