Convert rpm/deb to .pkg.tar.gz

I use checkinstall to prevent junk files ruining my system while installing a program from source. But checkinstall can only generate Slackware/rpm/deb packages. Is there any convenient way to directly convert rpm/deb to .pkg.tar.gz, which can be installed using pacman -U?
Note. By directly I mean no need to manually generate a PKGBUILD. The package information should be extracted from rpm/deb package automatically.
Thanks.

> Slackware/rpm/deb
IIRC Slackware uses plain tarballs, but this means no dep checks.
> Note. By directly I mean no need to manually generate a PKGBUILD.
PKGBUILDs are necessary only when you create sth from source. deb / rpm packages are already compiled.
Edit: spec2arch from pkgtools pacakge can create PKGBUILDs from .spec files, but I don't know if it's of any help.
Last edited by karol (2010-07-18 18:31:13)

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RPM to pkg.tar.gz and Pacman

Hello,
Is there any easy way to convert rpm packages into Pacman compatible ones?
I'm not interested in installing rpm's in Arch Linux (and if it is possible to do that, I don't even know how to do it). My problem is that I need/want to install the OpenOffice suite in my native language: portuguese from Portugal (in the Arch repository there are only packages of the Brazilian portuguese localization). And, when I unpack the OOo_2.1.0_LinuxIntel_install_pt.tar.gz file I've downloaded from the OpenOffice official site, the only thing I get is rpm's. Once I used Alien in Ubuntu to convert rpm's into deb's and It works very well.
How can I do something similar in Arch?

DERA wrote:Hello,
Is there any easy way to convert rpm packages into Pacman compatible ones?
I'm not interested in installing rpm's in Arch Linux (and if it is possible to do that, I don't even know how to do it). My problem is that I need/want to install the OpenOffice suite in my native language: portuguese from Portugal (in the Arch repository there are only packages of the Brazilian portuguese localization). And, when I unpack the OOo_2.1.0_LinuxIntel_install_pt.tar.gz file I've downloaded from the OpenOffice official site, the only thing I get is rpm's. Once I used Alien in Ubuntu to convert rpm's into deb's and It works very well.
How can I do something similar in Arch?
Why don't you take the PKGBUILD of one of these files and modify it accordingly to build your locale?

Convert .pkg folder to .pkg.tar.gz?

I just build a package gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz from PKGBUILD, I unpack the gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz and create a folder gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg, after changing some .png files in this folder, I compress the gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg folder back to gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, however it can not be installed with command pacman -U, I try to search wiki, but get no clues, thanks for help.
$ sudo pacman -U gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Password:
loading package data...
error: missing package metadata in gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
error: 'gmchess-0.20-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package

Xyne wrote:
Open up the PKGBUILD and replace the names of the old png files with the names of the new ones in the "source" array, e.g.:
source=(old_img_1.png old_img_2.png old_img_3.png)
source=(new_img_1.png new_img_2.png new_img_3.png)
Then run "makepkg -g" to generate the new md5sum array. Open the PKGBUILD again and replace the old md5sum array with the new one.
Thanks for your detailed reply, here is PKGBUILD, there is no source array about png, can I just put in the source array for new pngs?
=================================================================================================
# Contributor: yetist <[email protected]>
pkgname=gmchess
pkgver=0.20
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Chinese chess game"
arch=("i686" "x86_64")
url="http://code.google.com/p/gmchess/"
license=('GPL2')
depends=("gtkmm" "libglademm")
source=("http://gmchess.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2")
md5sums=('14ac37609c2fd6f0611001ed4508d688')
build() {
cd "$startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver"
./configure --prefix=/usr || return 1
make || return 1
make DESTDIR="$startdir/pkg" install || return 1

Why not using delta pkg.tar.gz?

hello everybody,
im new archlinux user, so i have question.
why archlinux dont using delta pkg.tar.gz packages? opensuse provides updates in delta rpm binary form.
instead re-downloading all new packages, it would be nice to download (update) delta packages only, which is smaller in size. bcoz not every people have unlimited bandwidth and quota.
thanks,
ps: sorry for my poor english

@Allan .. Is it in usable state? I read the md5sums problem was blocking this.
Is there a way to try that out? If devs can set up a small repository (may be only with core packages), I will be glad to test/bug fix/( or code ). I have a pretty slow connection (75 kbps ....yes it is a small "b" [Dont laugh ]..though 24/7 unlimited.. ) and this is one of the features that i want badly to be implemented in arch.
PS: Just like sva_h4cky0 this was one of my first questions on BBS. And thanks to Shining for all the work he has put into this.

Missing update package xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

today's updates include a buttload of updates. one of which is xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, even though its not in the official repos. which is still stuck at 7.0.13, am i missing somehting? or did this package sliped?
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:: Synchronizing package databases...
--2008-11-30 14:45:07-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/core/os/i686/core.db.tar.gz
=> `/var/lib/pacman/core.db.tar.gz.part'
Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41.144, 209.85.41.145
Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.144|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /core/os/i686 ... done.
==> SIZE core.db.tar.gz ... 32379
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR core.db.tar.gz ... done.
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100%[======================================>] 32,379 35.4K/s in 0.9s
2008-11-30 14:45:10 (35.4 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/core.db.tar.gz.part' saved [32379]
--2008-11-30 14:45:10-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz
=> `/var/lib/pacman/extra.db.tar.gz.part'
Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41.145, 209.85.41.144
Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.
--2008-11-30 14:45:12-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/extra.db.tar.gz
(try: 2) => `/var/lib/pacman/extra.db.tar.gz.part'
Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /extra/os/i686 ... done.
==> SIZE extra.db.tar.gz ... 423025
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR extra.db.tar.gz ... done.
Length: 423025 (413K)
100%[======================================>] 423,025 25.3K/s in 13s
2008-11-30 14:45:27 (31.2 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/extra.db.tar.gz.part' saved [423025]
--2008-11-30 14:45:28-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686/community.db.tar.gz
=> `/var/lib/pacman/community.db.tar.gz.part'
Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41.144, 209.85.41.145
Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.144|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /community/os/i686 ... done.
==> SIZE community.db.tar.gz ... 372576
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR community.db.tar.gz ... done.
Length: 372576 (364K)
100%[======================================>] 372,576 88.6K/s in 4.6s
2008-11-30 14:45:35 (78.4 KB/s) - `/var/lib/pacman/community.db.tar.gz.part' saved [372576]
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace synaptics with extra/xf86-input-synaptics? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Remove (1): synaptics-0.14.6.99-2
Total Removed Size: 0.07 MB
Targets (19): xf86-input-synaptics-0.99.1-1 gstreamer0.10-bad-0.10.9-1
gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins-0.10.9-1
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg-0.10.6-1 gstreamer0.10-ugly-0.10.10-1
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins-0.10.10-1 libdrm-2.3.1-2
libgl-7.2-1 intel-dri-7.2-1 mesa-7.2-1 orca-2.24.2-1
policykit-0.9-7 libpciaccess-0.10.5-1 xf86-video-intel-2.4.3-1
xf86-video-vesa-2.0.0-2 xkeyboard-config-1.4-1
xf86-input-evdev-2.0.7-1 xorg-server-1.5.3-2 xproto-7.0.14-1
Total Download Size: 0.08 MB
Total Installed Size: 47.08 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
--2008-11-30 14:46:14-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
=> `/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz.part'
Resolving ftp.archlinux.org... 209.85.41.145, 209.85.41.144
Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.
--2008-11-30 14:46:15-- ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
(try: 2) => `/var/cache/pacman/pkg/xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz.part'
Connecting to ftp.archlinux.org|209.85.41.145|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /extra/os/i686 ... done.
==> SIZE xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz ...
No such file `xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz'.
--2008-11-30 14:46:19-- http://archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br/extra/os/i686/xproto-7.0.14-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
Resolving archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br... 200.17.202.1, 200.236.31.1
Connecting to archlinux.c3sl.ufpr.br|200.17.202.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2008-11-30 14:46:20 ERROR 404: Not Found.
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
anyone experiencing these?

Yes, but here the package here continue to be not present
It's only present in x86_64 repo.
Last edited by Babets (2008-11-30 17:45:59)

Metainfo in .pkg.tar.gz

I recently had cause to manually tweak a package after I had made it. I realized that I needed a script in /etc/profile.d/ that I didn't include. I didn't want to remake the whole thing because it's an svn install and I do try to keep the source clean by copying it into a new folder and building from there. So I referenced the wiki and the forums for how to manually edit a package and didn't find much (maybe I'm not looking hard enough/well enough).
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In fact, it is no more than a gzipped tar archive or 'tarball' which contains:
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* .FILELIST: lists all the files of the archive. It's used in order to uninstall the software or to check for file conflicts.
* .INSTALL: a file used to execute commands after the install/upgrade/remove stage. (This file is present only if specified in the PKGBUILD.)
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majiq wrote:
Well, the makepkg -R doesn't touch the build() function, though, and really what I would've needed to do was skip most of the build() function until the end. I think there are some cases that might merit it. I could think it handy to modify an internal configuration file here or there without having to build the beast (the one-and-a-half-hour-to-compile beast in my case).
Why is it not recommended? Is it because there's no solid record of what was done, then?
exactly.
afaik, if you use separated build() and package() function, you can simply edit the package() function and run makepkg -R

[SOLVED] Does .pkg.tar.gz contain all dependencies ?

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Last edited by prateek.bvcoe (2014-01-05 07:55:22)

No, makepkg -s installs the dependencies prior to build / install. That is just the single package you are referring to. If you do pacman -U it won't say installing x,y, and z it will only say install x.
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Hey all,
I've been trying to install transcode on arch 0.6.
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Last edited by JohnColeman (2014-11-18 15:58:51)

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