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[graysky]

Genie's out of the bottle dude... it's the industrial revolution except scaled to some exponent in scope.

[summers]

Yes and it makes me scared ...

[graysky]

Yeah, you and me both, but it ain't going away.

[summers]

Any guidance on how to produce a local package database that is tied to the "arm" architecture, specially core.db etc as I'll needs to contact a database, even just running "pacman -U file.pkg.tar.xz" need to contact a working database for arm.

I asked on the parent site - but they refused to even consider the question, as its off topic - specifically it is on "Arch Linux x86_64 ONLY."

[graysky]

Same as any other arch

repo-add /path/to/reponame.db.tar.xz /path/to/pkgname-pkgver.pkg.tar.zst

[summers]

Tar - I'll try that. Also I may just get the code for pacman - change it so it doesn't have to check the repository. Then make a static one, and then upload it to a site with my packages - so if anyone wants to update then can go with that ...

[summers]

Managed to get the packages installed without a valid database. Problem was it was looking for signatures by default - and I wasn't signing the packages. As if if I do sign - that signature will need to be exported if anyone else wants to apply the updated packages, I pondered and instead did the simple thing, just switch off signing. This means I can easily update packages.

So right now I've got glibc up to 2.43 - so this means very recent include libraries. I can now export these to my desktop - and do a cross compile against those files. So hopefully I'll soon be able to build packages on my desktop. I'm mainly looking at just updating the infrastructure - so suspect it is mainly things from core. I'll probably be basing this off the main arch linux pkgbuild files, did try discussing on the main arch linux site - but they don't want any non x86-64 discussion, so my post was deleted as off topic. There is an official way into arch linux via RFCs - but as it need a large %age of pkgbuild to be built before they will even consider it (something like 80%), that is my aim, and will never happen. So alas this has to be done a fork off the main arch site - a sadness, but it is what it is ...