Pacman.conf NoUpgrade Wildcard

does pacman.conf 's NoUpgrade directive honor Wildcards ? IE: NoUpgrade = etc/packagename/*
I'm not willing to test this, as I just lost a large number of config files to a botched upgrade.
I reiterate, I am NOT WILLING to test this myself, as I don't have time to handle further data loss.
a simple yes or no answer and how you know is all I can use

Thank you for the concise response, Allan. I may just do that, djszapi. for now I have to finish cleaning up the mess I made

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Has Pacman3 dropped support for the NoUpgrade Lines in pacman.conf?

I just upgraded to Pacman 3. When I upgraded I quickly saw some output on my sceen saying it was doing a one time "reset" and I believe it said I could delete the NoUpgrade lines in pacman.conf.
I noticed that pacman.conf.pacnew does not have any NoUpgrade lines.
Should I delete all the NoUpgrade lines from my pacman.conf file?
Is the NoUpgrade line no longer supported in pacman3?
If so, how can I protect some of my config files from being overwritten during upgrades?
Rob

They're still supported, there just aren't any by default anymore. They were redundant.
You can/should remove any that are listed in the "backup" list for the packages they come from (pacman -Qii package). Those are all handled as if they were in NoUpgrade anyway.

/etc/pacman.conf question..

This may have been asked before, but I could not find it...
<yes, I did use the search on the forums... >
I was wondering if the NoUpgrade option in pacman.conf uses shell-like wildcard expansion...
Does the following work?
NoUpgrade = etc/host*
shell expansion should expand this to
/etc/host.conf
/etc/hosts
/etc/hosts.allow
/ec/hosts.deny
will pacman do the same?

No, but it would be nice to have something like that (or perhaps better with regexp)
BTW, regexp support for targets was already in pacman wishlist.
I've added noupgrade/ignorepkg options to it.
To be continued...

Pacman.conf kinda confused

Hello i am just trying out Arch Linux and just did a fresh install. And i trying to enable the repositories and i seem to keep running into an error
everytime i type pacman or anything related it get this error
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 65: directive 'Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first' not recognized.
I know you have to add your own mirrors and such which i did, but still getting errors here is my etc/pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
here is the pacman.conf
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#NoPassiveFtp
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# Testing is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[localmirror]
Server = http://www.pollicina.org/arch/localmirror
core
Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archl … po/os/i686
Include = /etc/pacman.d/core
extra
Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Server = http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/arch/extra/os/i686
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
community
Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Server = http://shlunix.org/archlinux/repo/os/i686
Include = /etc/pacman.d/community
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
Here is the /etc/mirrorlist
# Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
# Generated on 2009-06-16
United States
Server = http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archli … po/os/i686
Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archl … po/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/di … po/os/i686
Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/d … po/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio … po/os/i686
Server = http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis … po/os/i686
Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://schlunix.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.sourceshare.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.umflint.edu/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.umoss.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
# Venezuela
#Server = http://mirror2.archlinux.com.ve/$repo/os/i686
# Vietnam
#Server = ftp://202.78.230.5/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
#Server = ftp://ftp.indochinalinux.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
#Server = ftp://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/archli … po/os/i686
#Server = http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/archl … po/os/i686
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply appreciate it.
And i think i understand it alittle bit better here is a link to my changed pacman.conf and mirrorlist
Im still receiving errors about the mirrors
pacman.conf link
http://pastebin.ca/1576914
mirrorlist
http://pastebin.ca/1576916

[Solved]Add kernel26 to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf. Not ignored.

Using kdemod4.3(32bit). I re-installed kernel26-2.6.30.5-1-i686(earliest in pacman pkg cache) and added kernel26 and kernel-headers to /etc/pacman.conf IgnorePkg but # "pacman -Syu" still asks to upgrade kernel to 2.30.6-1-i686. What do I add to that IgnorePkg to avoid kernel upgrade? Tried kernel, kernel26 and kernel26*. Adding nvidia,nvidia-utils and xorg-server to Ignorepkg give me that thee aren't upgraded(desirred result). Thanx.
Last edited by lestoil (2009-10-08 18:08:14)

# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
IgnorePkg = nvidia nvidia-utils xorg-server
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# Testing is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#KDEmod4
[kdemod-core]
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/kdemod/core/i686
#KDEmod4
[kdemod-extragear]
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/kdemod/extragear/i686
[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#Yaourt
[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
Here is complete /etc/pacman.conf. file without the "kernel" or "kernel26" entry which doesn't work.

Pacman.conf.pacsave etc?

I recently upgraded my system to the newer packages and I noticed some messages when I did this. The pacman.conf.save as well as rc.local.pacsave and a few others were listed as being created. What wasn't clear was what I am supposed to do with these multiple files.
I noticed that the pacman.conf file was actually different than my original as the IGNOREPKG line was commented whereas I had mine commented out.
So, can this be clarified? Perhaps even a list of the files that typically get replaced and what users are supposed to do with them.
Thanks in advance.

Anything with a .pacsave extension is a configuration file that has been backed up. Your previous pacman.conf file was moved to /etc/pacman.conf.pacsave and the new file from the new package was placed in as /etc/pacman.conf.
To prevent that from happening, add etc/pacman.conf to one of the NoUpgrade lines in pacman.conf. Then the next time pacman is upgraded, your original config will be preserved and the new file will be saved as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew.

Hi accidentally overwrote new pacman.conf with /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew

Hi
I accidentally overwrote etc/pacman.conf with the old /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew.
Pacman now appears to work but disregards the signing of packages.
Is there an copy of the pacman.conf from the upgrade around so I can merge
the two files. perhaps pacman.conf~, but no I think this is overwritten too.
Regardz
El Zorro

Hi Trilby,
it may be the mouldy oldy one as there is no reference to "SigLevel = Never" it does not seem to exist only "Architecture = auto"
Here is the current /etc/pacman.conf
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
#CheckSpace
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
Trilby wrote:
The pacnew version includes everything for package signing. All you will have lost is any personal changes you have made.
The package signing lines are, however, commented out except for the "SigLevel = Never" line. Just read the instructions within the comments and uncomment the appropriate SigLevel line (and comment the "Never" line).
Last edited by elzorro (2012-01-21 06:31:50)

A perfect /etc/pacman.conf ??

Hello guys,
can someone please post a good working /etc/pacman.conf with uptodate servers ??
I somehow broke mine...:/:/
Thanks in advance and regards from Berlin
Chris

Here's mine with testing,community and unstable uncommented.
# /etc/pacman.conf
# NOTE: If you find a mirror that is geographically close to you, please
# move it to the top of the server list, so pacman will choose it
# first.
# To re-sort your mirror lists by ping/traceroute results, use the
# /usr/bin/sortmirrors script. It requires the "netselect" package.
# See the pacman manpage for option directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
NoUpgrade = etc/passwd etc/group etc/shadow etc/sudoers
NoUpgrade = etc/fstab etc/raidtab etc/ld.so.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/rc.conf etc/rc.local
NoUpgrade = etc/modprobe.conf etc/modules.conf
NoUpgrade = etc/lilo.conf boot/grub/menu.lst
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here.
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
[testing]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/testing/os/i686
[current]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/current
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
[unstable]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/unstable
[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/community
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

Pacman.conf problem [solved]

Hi im having a problem with yaourt, and packer and i cant also install any package form Aur for example:
packer -S opencascade
grep: /etc/pacman.conf: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
Aur Targets (1): opencascade
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
Dependencies for `opencascade' are not met, not building..
i have the same problem with yaourt
if i try to install from a tarball for example i get this
makepkg -s
==> Making package: plank-bzr 820-1 (Fri Jun 7 13:06:26 ART 2013)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
==> ERROR: 'pacman' returned a fatal error (1):
[dam2@dam1d plank-bzr]$
i installed arch linux again yesterday and i copy the pacman.conf file that i have in my older arch linux to my new one
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
#UseDelta = 0.7
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#TotalDownload
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required
# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.
#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
modedit: added code tags /Xyne
Last edited by adcdam (2013-06-07 19:28:32)

grep: /etc/pacman.conf: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf could not be read: Permission denied
This tells you that you have incorrectly configured permissions when you copied the file. Fix that with
chmod 644 /etc/pacman.conf
Also note that I have added code tags ([code]) to your post. Please use them in the future when you post command output or file contents.

Feature request: extra Include directive in default pacman.conf

Since arch's move to systemd, cluster administration requires less and less use of sed. In particular, systemctl, timedatectl, /etc/sysctl.d, /etc/modules-load.d, /etc/hostname, /etc/vconsole.conf, etc. make scripting configuration changes both simpler more robust than the old approach of editing multi-purpose files such as /etc/rc.conf.
An exception to this trend is pacman.conf, which has non-trivial default contents that almost certainly needs to be customized (e.g., to enable multilib and local repositories). These changes would be much simpler if the default pacman.conf included a line such as:
Include = /etc/pacman.d/conf/*.conf
Currently my scripts use sed to insert this line at the end of the [options] section. (Unfortunately "Include = /etc/pacman.d/*.conf" doesn't work because there's sometimes a gpg.conf file in /etc/pacman.d, but maybe that could be fixed.)
I don't know if the forum is the right place for feature requests, but I wanted to get people's reactions. If people think it's a good idea I can add it as a feature request to the bug tracker.
There are several other pieces of low-hanging fruit where I'd like to see arch decrease the complexity scripting configuration (e.g., an unattended pacman-key --populate and easier customization of mkinitcpio.conf), but I figured I'd start with the simplest and gauge people's reactions.

aweb wrote:I don't know if the forum is the right place for feature requests, but I wanted to get people's reactions. If people think it's a good idea I can add it as a feature request to the bug tracker.
It isn't... best to place the feedback in flyspray so it will be sure to get to the peeps that need to see it. Welcome to Arch.

Pacman looking for pacman.conf in the wrong place?

When using yaourt, I had been getting an error message to do with pacman.conf not being found. I fixed this by creating my own and saving it in
/usr/local/etc/pacman.conf
(it's the only file in /usr/local/etc)
I then got the error message:
failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or read directory)
After some googling and learning about the find command, I found the following files:
/usr/lib/libalpm.so
/usr/lib/libalpm.so.8
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libalpm.pc
/usr/lib/libalpm.so.8.0.2
So I'm guessing that I do have the alpm library, but pacman (or Yaourt?) isn't finding it.
Further use of 'find' found the following versions of pacman:
/usr/local/etc/pacman.conf
/etc/pacman.conf
Which then lead me to believe that I have the necessary files but they are in the wrong place or there is a config file (or something) that I need to alter.
Any ideas what I've done wrong and how to correct it?
Thanks, James

I've just tried
pacman -S man-pages
as a test, and it worked ok.
So, Bug Wrangler is probably right. Any ideas how I fix it, or is the solution to start again? If I need to start again, is there an easy way to remove yaourt?
Last edited by james13 (2014-10-05 18:57:00)

Pacman.conf file syntax highlighting for nano

Hi, here is pacman.conf file syntax highlighting for nano. It may be useful for those who edit their pacman.conf regularly.
Just put this lines in the end of your /etc/nanorc or ~/.nanorc file:
# syntax highlithing in pacman.conf
syntax "pacman.conf" "pacman\.conf$"
color brightwhite start="\[" end="\]"
color brightyellow ".*="
color brightred "=.*"
color white "="
color brightblue "\[|\]"
color brightcyan start="/|http|ftp" end=".*"
color green "#.*"
In this thread you can find rc.conf file syntax highlighting.

thank you! i always accidentally open up nano, find out text is practically unreadable with its default colours, close it and then wait the horrific 4 seconds it takes for emacs to spring to life.

Can't write to pacman.conf -- Read only file

Hello everybody,
I'm a complete noob when it comes to installing (arch) linux. I just installed (a part of) arch linux to my old computer, but I'm stuck now.
I used the Arch Linux beginners guide and now I'm at the part where I need to configure pacman.
But once I'm trying to adjust something in pacman.conf the computer tells me it's a read only file.
I also can't udate the system when I use pacman -Syu I get: error: failed to update core/extra/community (unable to lock database)
Btw I installed syslinux and I'm logged in as root.
I hope you can help me with this and that i'm not asking a really dumb question.
Thanks in advance!

Pimmmo wrote:
I can only take pictures, because my arch linux is on an other computer.
here is my fstab (btw it's read only as well)
And here is my mount output
That's not even the full /etc/fstab. It's horrible.
Add a tmpfs like in the fstab wiki entry. It's probably because you used one ">" when using genfstab (my bad, sorry).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab
PS: Which bootloader do you use? Syslinux? Don't remove "ro" then. Keep it, just like in the examples.
Last edited by DSpider (2012-09-18 13:22:25)

Pacman.conf NEED tips for totally offline install with DVD repository

OBJECTIVE: after a base install with ARCHBOOT be able to install from DVD repository which contains repo-add database.
My DVD contains the folder from /var/cache/pacman/pkg.
ON the DVD I have the folder 'pkg' at the dvd root level and another folder which has my already built packages fro AUR.
The database called 'custom.db.tar.gz' created with repo-add exists IN the pkg folder on the DVD.
The built AUR packages are in a seperate folder called '_built' at the dvd's root level as well and they are not included in the repo-add database.
I am able to mount the dvd, cd to the pkg folder and use pacman -Ud to install them though this requires that I type in the full name of the package and I get dependence issues and '*.so' type files not found.
IF I copy all the files from the DVD to the var/cache/pacman/pkg folder I am able to add my local repository to pacman.conf and MUCH more efficient install. I can use pacman -S xorg for example, and I think it finds dependencies even. Can't recall exactly at the moment.
SO: do I need to alter pacman.conf cache location line and the other lines?
Would I change the 2nd and 3rd lines to get max pacman ability when using DVD repository???
Pointing them to my DVD folder after mounting the dvd
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
I really would like to have as much power and flexibility when using the DVD as the repo.
Can anyone tell me what I should alter in pacman.conf for this.
I am fine if I have to alter the cache location line temporarily if it will give me additional pacman ability.
I have read all the wiki stuff for sure though I'm still a bit in the dark and wanted to ask without typing the many many options.
One big one for me is I don't yet know how to set the SERVER = in pacman.com to look at the mounted DVD and the pkg folder specifically.
I do mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
So what would I put as the SERVER for this in pacman.conf
SERVER = /dev/sr0 ????? or /dev/cdrom ???? or /mnt/cdrom I think ????
dunno!
AND I really probably DO have to temporarily alter the pacman.conf cache location line to get pacman to do dependency installs and let me type short lines instead of the full package name.
THANKS! this one is BIG for me!!!!! :---)
Last edited by yvonney (2009-06-18 20:27:14)

COMMENT WRITTEN LAST: I was about to delete a lot of stuff here though thought to just say sorry for not taking the brain-time to slim it. The bold and white boxed part is the main related quest-ion.
you might find a few useful tools on my site (in my sig), e.g. pkgd if you want to save bandwidth on a LAN --- pbget if you want to easily get PKGBUILDs etc from the AUR and official repos, etc.
WOW Xyne !!!! thanks. pbget etc. sound very cool.
I used yaourt until very recently. Then went ....hmmmm... should learn about manual building and local repo. Where I'm at now is trying to do as much manually as possible. I think I kinda know what packages I want and there will only be some changes from that in the future. There's maybe 20 packages from AUR for me. [PLUS their dependencies]
Of course: I am doing the repo-add local repositories thing for speed, learning, and as part of my whole 'best practices' growth. Plus it will come in very handy when helping other decide quickly if a barbones mainly wm/ncurses lightweight system is for them.
You certainly spark a question or two!
[AUR and dependencies via yaourt affecting my plans to now go manually]
As these have all ALREADY been installed via yaourt my BIG concern is that I've never found much of a yaourt/cache folder. You see, as you'd know many many times upon installing vai yaourt there's some dependency that may, or I guess, may not be in the standard repos.
After installing these packages via yaourt do the dependencies go into /var/cache/pacman.pkg and is pacman aware of it when I do a repo-add for thecustom database. If so, then all if fairly cool for my plans. I bet there's a few idiosyncrasies about AUR and dependencies maybe.
-AUR dependency resolution-
Using a custom repo will not really work for general use because you would need to manually populate the database with the dependencies anyway.
I'm fine with manually doing dependencies - though need to know if my yaourt usage ALREADY put the latest dependencies in the pacman cache for AUR unsupported packages AND is there a way with the whole repo-add, local repositry, pacman and aur concpt I'm planning to fine tune to have the dependencies update when I go back to the online repositries? I don't think so based on my usage with yaourt, though can't quite recall.
As I will be enjoying makepkg building the group of packages I nee to get from AUR for the forseeable future (that are not in the main 3 repos of course)
I'm still wondering about the inter-relationships. So: I already have installed and/or built the packages for everything I expect to need mostly. I never became beyone mediocre with yaourt. and that fine, though I now have to consider that in a new install I DO have the latest AUR built packages, though will there be the right dependencies ALREADY in my /var/cache/pacman/pkg ?
There's a few things that I'd love to really understand about this. Even if it ends up that dependencies for the AUR packages is always a bit trickier.
QUESTION: right now I am uable to try custom repo from flash stick as it's read only. I'll be googling this one out and am really looking forward to having a flash stick with ARCHBOOT and I gues ONE repo pkg folder and database on it.
NOTE: I will put the custom repo above the stock ones in pacman.conf. I just commented out the others as I was doing all this offline.
I've dumped the dvd as a repo and have switched to a flash stick. I've extracted the archboot out to a 4 gig flash stick.
dd if=/root/Desktop/archlinux-2009.05-2-archboot.iso of=/dev/sdb Its read-only at the moment and no matter what I've tried it stays that way. Maybe I need to use the HPutil on it. It definitely isn't writeable so I won't ponder or note observations here save to say that 'm stumped as to how to get files copied to it.
And now what may be the way I'd like to work: Keep my folder for building packages from aur which is /root/aur. Then after doing the fun makepkg --asroot or even makepg -i as root to install. Though I'll probably after the build THEN just copy the built packages from my /root/aur to /var/cache/pacman/pkg and install from there as I DO plan to use the online repos.
I will ALSO copy the file to my USB stick or maybe just sync to it and do a the repo-add thing in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and keep the stick as both backup and 'in the ready' reinstaller.
Um, now could spend an hour editing down the above!!!
wondrous thanks!
Last edited by yvonney (2009-06-19 07:38:25)

Cannot enable wget in pacman.conf(solved)

Pacman does not recognize wget in /etc/pacman.conf....
[root@n6re ~]# pacman -Scc
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 19: directive 'xferCommand' noted.
[root@n6re ~]#
Attempting to eliminate pacman's filling of my /root partition during full system download I attempted to use wget to aid in downloading. The result is noted above.
My root partition is filled...used
pacman -Scc
once but the problem repeated. Some users use wget to solve the problem so I tried that .
Attempted to use:
pacman -Q |less
The same error concerning wget occured again and no display of installed packages ensued.
So for the present cannot state which pacman version I have installed.
Will restore /etc/pacman.conf to original condition and report further on this problem.
Last edited by lilsirecho (2009-10-10 06:19:32)

Thanks for the sharp eye.
Reset my modem, re-installed pacman and corrected the pacman.conf entry for wget.
All is well again....

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