2013/11/12 Ruben Van Boxem <[email protected]>
> 2013/11/12 Alexey Pavlov <[email protected]>
>
>> Today I want to announce that MSYS2 now has console package manager -
>> pacman that is ported from Arch Linux. I'm still working on porting pacman
>> but it work in general.
>> You can find general info about packman here:
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman
>>
>> I create experimental base msys2 snapshot with pacman
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/Base/i686/msys2-base-i686-20131112.tar.xz/download
>>
>> Also I prebuilt packages for 32-bit MSYS2 (64-bit still building).
>> I store MSYS2 repositories here:
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MSYS2/
>>
>> I invite all who use MSYS2 to test this feature. For it you need download
>> base snapshot and unpack it somewhere.
>> The do first start MSYS2 and restart it. Now you can install, upgrade or
>> uninstall packages using pacman.
>>
>> 1. Synchronize package DB: pacman -Sy
>> 2. Install package or package group: pacman -S [<package_name> or
>> <package_group>]
>> Where groups now can be
>> - base: installed in base snapshot;
>> - base-devel: developer tools
>> - VCS: version control systems (git,mercurial,subversion)
>> - development: headers and import libraries for msys2 packages
>> - msys2-devel: msys versions of gcc,binutils
>> - editors: nano,vim
>> - perl-modules: only few now. Build more when done 64-bit packages
>> - compression: tar, p7zip, xz, gzip and others
>> 3. All other command you can see in help :)
>>
>
> Great news! Are you planning to submit any patches upstream, or aren't
> there any non-Windows things you changed? If there are any valid small
> things that might be interesting to upstream, I would highly recommend
> showing them. If not, don't bother, pacman == Archlinux, they will not be
> greatly interested in Windows support I'd guess, but who knows ;-)
>
> I'm write small mail to pacman-dev ML about using it on Windows with
thanks to it developers.
Changes in pacman addressed to drop unsupported functionality like root and
non-root access, handling windows binaries instead of unix binaries. Also
some tweaks in makepkg script.
There are still many work on it but pacman is usable in general.
Regards,
Alexey.
> Ruben
>
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alexey.
>>
>>
>>
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