REPOKEEPER.py

is tool that helps you to maintain own local database of packages buid from aur

For Arch Linux only !!!

HOMEPAGE:

https://github.com/tibor95/repokeeper

WIKI:

https://github.com/tibor95/repokeeper/wiki

BASIC SETUP:

You need to edit /etc/repokeeper.conf. Especially you will need two directories - one as building / working directory another one as permanent storage of generated packages.

Anyway, if you run repokeeper.py without any preparation no harm will be done...

HOW IT WORKS:

1. It reads config file to find out what packages you want to have in your repo
2. It checks actual versions of those packages in your repo
3. It sends query to AUR website to find out what are latest version of those packages
4. If AUR contains newer version, it builds the packages and put the into repo dir
5. Unless disabled by CLI switch it checks and builds dependencies including make dependencies if they are found in AUR (since 0.3.8). This is done only for packages that are to be built
6. Regenerates repo db file. Note, it puts there all pkgs located in repo dir, even those that are not in your config file. Repokeeper doesnt delete any packages from repo directory, you have to do it by hand. Afterwards you can re-run repokeeper to rebuild repo db file, to get rid of entries for deleted packages.

ADDING REPOSITORY INTO /etc/pacman.conf:

at the end of repokeeper.py output, you will see two lines that have to be added to/present in pacman.conf. Afterwards ussual command "pacman -Sy" will fetch data also from your local repository. Repository name is now customizable via /etc/repokeeper.conf. The repository name in /etr/pacman.conf must be the same, of course. The default is local-rk, in this case no entry in /etc/repokeeper.conf is needed.

LOG file:

/tmp/repokeeper.log

Feedback welcomed

January 06, 2022