Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-10 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Thomas S Hatch wrote: I would still be interested in your script, I still lack a great deal of pacman fu! Here it is, just for reference: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/scripts/pacman/#pacget Thomas S Hatch wrote: It still

[aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
I have an odd request with regards to an aur package - augeas: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18533 I have been working toward porting an extremely powerful virtualization application to ArchLinux - Libguestfs: http://libguestfs.org/ The libguestfs package will also enable a number of

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread jesse jaara
2010/12/9 Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com You see, the build process needs to create a tiny virtual machine image, (the image is quite remarkable, a vm image for Arch in less than 50K) but the process to create the image requires that all packages for the image be available as binary

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/9 Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com You see, the build process needs to create a tiny virtual machine image, (the image is quite remarkable, a vm image for Arch in less than 50K) but the process to create

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/9 Thomas S Hatch thatc...@gmail.com You see, the build process needs to create a tiny virtual machine image, (the image is quite

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Xyne
Thomas S Hatch wrote: Ok, the process of building the libguestfs virtual machine image, called supermin, must be executed as an unprivileged user during the libguestfs make process. The supermin build process is managed by a program called febootstrap, I had to write an additional module

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Thomas S Hatch wrote: Ok, the process of building the libguestfs virtual machine image, called supermin, must be executed as an unprivileged user during the libguestfs make process. The supermin build process is managed

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
It still needs a lot of refinement, but here is the ocaml febootstrap_pacman module if you are interested: http://git.annexia.org/?p=febootstrap.git;a=blob;f=febootstrap_pacman.ml;h=5076d85c76a428b7275b94c6c416c2694bfe6bd4;hb=HEAD The more I look at it the more I see better ways of handling the

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
You know, this is one of the situations where I am kind of embarrassed I even brought this up. I can solve this problem much more cleanly with bacman, and it will clean up a number of aspects of the build process. Ok, do me a favor, and next time I poke my head out, don't remember mas as a fool

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Justin Davis
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

Re: [aur-general] Augeas request

2010-12-09 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Justin Davis jrc...@gmail.com 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