User:Fstirlitz/maintaining a private repo

useful for having lots of AUR packages installed

creating the repo

0. create a signing key (you can skip this step and use an existing key if you wish)

   $ gpg --gen-key
   

1. add it to your pacman keyring

   $ gpg --export -a $KEYID | sudo pacman-key --add -
   $ sudo pacman-key --edit $KEYID
   gpg> trust
   ? 4
   gpg> lsign
   gpg> save
   

2. create a dedicated directory for your packages

   $ mkdir -p ~/packages/repo
   

3. configure makepkg to use it in ~/.makepkg.conf

   BUILDENV+=(sign)
   GPGKEY=... # put your key id here
   PKGDEST="$HOME/packages/repo"
   

4. add it as your repository in /etc/pacman.conf

   [custom]
   SigLevel = Required
   Server = file:///.../packages/repo
   

updating packages

0. build all the packages you want to update

   makepkg
   

1. update the package index

   $ cd ~/packages/repo
   $ repo-add -q -k "$KEYID" -s custom.db.tar.xz ${package_names[@]}
   

   to regenerate the index from scratch, use

   $ cd ~/packages/repo
   $ rm custom.db.tar.xz
   $ repo-add -q -k "$KEYID" -s custom.db.tar.xz *.pkg.tar.xz
   

2. update packages with pacman

   # pacman -Suy
   

there should be a script to automate this.