Uncompress .pkg.tar.xz and install result without pacman

Can the pacman packages be untarred and stored ready to install by either pacman or otherwise...probably otherwise?
Purpose, to reduce access time for package installs, which pacman must untar before installing. These untarred packages would be used in a "live" ram system from flash storage devices.
Any way to do this?

file:///media/disk/cache2/untar/avahi-0.6.27-2-x86_64.pkg
This file in flash has three folders, Etc, usr and var. It was extracted from the .pkg.tar.xz.
This is the situation that needs a means to install the .pkg listed above, used as an example.
I assume that it is ready for install since it has been untarred.

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I look at the Apple Store refurbs list on a daily basis.
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Refer to this Apple Support article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25497
There are some (lower-priced) Mac Pros sold with the slower processor option, but they are seldom seen on the refurb list, and sell quickly when do appear. One would certainly sell within minutes of being placed on the list this close to the holidays. (A good alternative at a close price w/o sales tax: eBay 250194178376)
There are others besides Apple selling the older production Macs and advertising that they have Tiger on them, not Leopard. (From a third party, I very recently purchased a Mac Pro NIB with Tiger only.) Those units will be available less and less as each day goes by. I have purchased a Leopard family pack for possible future use.
Don't wait too long to make up your mind, or the choice will no longer be available for you:) A mid-priced Mac Pro might be one of the last G5s, so you might want to look at eBay item 120191603098 (I have no affiliation on either eBay item, just a bystander).
Message was edited by: myhighway
As to the question iMac vs Mac Pro or G5 - do you already have a display for a tower? A big factor in the decision.
Message was edited by: myhighway

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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.
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Password:
loading package data...
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Xyne wrote:
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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]>
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pkgrel=1
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posting my pacman -Syu
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--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.
Length: 32379 (32K)
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]
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=> `/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)

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Since my friend bought the computer along with Lion using his Apple ID, how do I reset and install Lion without having to enter his Apple ID?
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