ironicbadger Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 Will update it soon and post when done. Just doing some reshuffling of software with the switch to KVM (I need to edit my compiling VM). EDIT: I created an Arch droplet on digitalocean to update the package. It's now uploaded, enjoy y'all. Link to comment
jumperalex Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Sounds good. Ok so I know i should do the research myself but is there any chance you could post a bit of a how-to (and maybe a VM?) of what we need to build from AUR ourselves? I read up on the AUR wiki but since I've never done anything like it before I am just looking for maybe some tips. Worst case I was going to duplicate my current Xen VM, install the packages the wiki tells me I need to for builds and have at it. Surely not to sound ungrateful, but we now still find ourselves dependent on a single person for creating / updating some packages so that is why I ask. Thanks. Link to comment
ironicbadger Posted June 22, 2014 Author Share Posted June 22, 2014 Sounds good. Ok so I know i should do the research myself but is there any chance you could post a bit of a how-to (and maybe a VM?) of what we need to build from AUR ourselves? I read up on the AUR wiki but since I've never done anything like it before I am just looking for maybe some tips. Worst case I was going to duplicate my current Xen VM, install the packages the wiki tells me I need to for builds and have at it. Surely not to sound ungrateful, but we now still find ourselves dependent on a single person for creating / updating some packages so that is why I ask. Thanks. Just google using something like packer or yaourt. It's even in this thread somewhere I think (or my VM thread). Link to comment
jumperalex Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 hmm ok. I'll probably wait until the move to KVM. Thanks. PS: well if it is in another thread, maybe it needs it could be copied out into its own thread for easy access and discussion? Link to comment
Rick Sanchez Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Is there a list of everything in this repo? Such as pfsense Link to comment
jumperalex Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Querying_package_databases pacman -Ss [package name] Though I'm not seeing a command to list all packages, but the above will tell you if the package you want is in your repos Link to comment
ironicbadger Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 Is there a list of everything in this repo? Such as pfsense C'mon, read the first posts it's all there. Also, pfsense isn't a package it's an entire OS. Link to comment
Rick Sanchez Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 It was three am, I over looked that post. Link to comment
ironicbadger Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 It was three am, I over looked that post. Oh OK then, my fault. Obviously. Link to comment
ironicbadger Posted June 30, 2014 Author Share Posted June 30, 2014 Good evening all, I am writing this post with a view toward winding up my active involvement in the maintenance of the Xen / KVM / repo images and projects I've been running since January. There are numerous reason for this, some of them personal which I won't bore you with but others are more publishable. With the roadmap published by Limetech this week it is quite clear to me that headless Linux VMs, such my ArchVM, are not long for this world. Docker is the future for LT it seems, I'm not fully convinced yet but maybe I'll be proven wrong. Also, with the talk of potentially dropping Xen and the flip flopping over support various hypervisors I've decided to just call it quits as it takes up too much of my time to keep up with all the changes. I'm in the middle of writing a dissertation and am therefore a little pushed for time. Lately, and by that I mean the last 3-4 months, donations have all but dried up (bar the odd generous $5 here and there, thank you to those who did donate) yet my bandwidth usage is getting higher and higher, it approached 300gb last month. This is not sustainable or fair. As previously mentioned I am an MSc student and here in the UK we get no funding from the government so have to pay our own way and the few ££ a month matter. I'm also just a little bored of what unRAID has to offer. It is rather behind the times, admittedly better lately, but I'm seeing much, much better performance with AUFS and SnapRAID on a proper Linux distro base OS (not this Slackware crap). I enjoy being able to type 'package-manger install package' far more than what unRAID has to offer. I've been an unRAID user for 3+ years and know so much more now than I did when I setup my unRAID system, so if you like my training wheels are coming off. So in summary, I'm not going away or deleting my account or posts or anything but I will with immediate effect stop maintaining my ArchVM images (both Xen and KVM) and the ArchVMrepo. With that said, I use the archVMrepo for friends and family so you may get lucky and piggy back of that for a while but it will go away one day. I wish LT all the best and all that. Ciao for now. Link to comment
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