On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Justin Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know if it would help but I have created an ocaml module that > you could use to interface with libalpm. The github repo is at > https://github.com/juster/ocaml-alpm but it isn't completely finished. > It works and is comprehensive but has no docs and no Makefile. > > Making packages from the AUR isn't very complicated if you already > know which packages are from the AUR beforehand. You just download the > source package (wget/curl), extract it, run makepkg in the extracted > directory, and do what you want with the binary package. You > loop/recurse over a list of package names doing this for each one. I > suppose this would be a list of one single element: augeas? > > Having a needed package in the AUR doesn't seem like a deal breaker > unless there is some sort of upstream policy preventing you from using > the AUR. > -- > -Justin > Thanks, I will need to look into this, but I have found a solution! I will have libguestfs packages up shortly! I didn't think it would be wise to build a package from aur during the build of a package, so I hardcoded in the use of bacman. As for your ocaml package, I will have to take a look! -Thomas Hatch
