# Workflows Describe your packaging workflow here! ## fauno's way During packaging, I don't usually restart a build from scratch if I have to make changes to the PKGBUILD. I use a lot of commenting out commands already ran, `makepkg -R`, etc. When I used `libremakepkg` I ended up using a lot more `librechroot` and working from inside the unconfigured chroot, because `makechrootpkg` (the underlying technology for `libremakepkg`) tries to be too smart. When I started writing `treepkg` I found that mounting what I need directly on the chroot and working from inside it was much more comfortable and simple than having a makepkg wrapper doing funny stuff (for instance, mangling `makepkg.conf` and breaking everything.) This is how the chroot is configured: * Create the same user (with same uid) on the chroot that the one I use regularly. * Give it password-less sudo on the chroot. * Bind mount `/home` to `/chroot/home`, where I have the abslibre-mips64el clone. * Bind mount `/var/cache/pacman/pkg` to `/chroot/var/cache/pacman/pkg` * Put these on system's `fstab` so I don't have to do it everytime * Configure `makepkg.conf` to `PKGDEST=CacheDir` and `SRCDEST` to something on my home. Workflow: * Enter the chroot with `systemd-nspawn -D/chroot` and `su - fauno`. * From another shell (I use tmux) edit the abslibre or search for updates with `git log --no-merges --numstat`. * Pick a package and run `treepkg` from its dir on the chroot, or retake a build with `treepkg /tmp/package-treepkg-xxxx`. > Note: `treepkg` has been deprecated in favor of `dagpkg`. What this allows: * Not having to worry about the state of the chroot. `chcleanup` removes and adds packages in a smart way so shared dependencies stay and others move along (think of installing and removing qt for a complete kde rebuild). * Building many packages in a row without recreating a chroot for every one of them. * Knowing that any change you made to the chroot stays as you want (no one touches your makepkg.conf) * Hability to run regular commands, not through a chroot wrapper. I can `cd` to a dir and use `makepkg -whatever` on it and nothing breaks. * No extra code spent on wrappers.