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For a few months, I considered using the mirror service from Fosshost in userrepository.eu. The service results from a partnership between Fosshost and Fastly, giving projects access to several PoP’s around the globe. Finally, a few days ago, I enabled the service. I also created a package with the mirror’s list, userrepository-mirrors, available in my repository and AUR. The package has all the instructions for enabling the mirrors and what to do if you already have userrepository in your /etc/pacman.conf configuration. ...

It took me a while to update you about the latest changes to my Arch and Arch-compatible Linux distributions repository. But first, let me apologize for the delay: work, personal life and, for about 3 weeks now, a horrible back pain (that just doesn’t stop, even with an handful of medication) have kept me from doing this in the time frame I expected. First on the “agenda”, I experimented with increasing the zstd compression level for the packages like I said I would do in my last post about the repository. The trade-off was not worth it: the increase in packaging time was far superior to the small decrease in package size. So, I’ll keep the zstd compression level to “-12” in the foreseeable future. ...

Install Wireguard I’m using a Debian virtual machine for the server. In Debian 10, you’ll need to install the following two packages: apt install wireguard-dkms wireguard-tools Set up keys First, navigate to /etc/wireguard (If not created, run mkdir /etc/wireguard as root) and then run the following commands as root: wg genkey | tee laptop-private.key | wg pubkey > laptop-public.key wg genkey | tee server-private.key | wg pubkey > server-public.key ...

My Arch buildbot, Jarvis, received an update today in the options logic. Now, it can receive an argument in the add (-a) and delete (-d) options, so the user can specify the package to add or delete. The option to add a package, for now, only works for AUR. If you want to add a package that’s not in AUR, you’ll need to manually add the submodule. In the future, Jarvis will allow you to use a git repository with a PKGBUILD file. ...

I’ve been using Arch or Arch-based distributions for over a year now. In this time testing a few of them, I’ve always lacked a simple and logical way of installing the same “essential” software. To tackle this, I’ve created a metapackage with all this software and this is what I’ve got so far: # Maintainer: Bruno Miguel https://twitter.com/brunomiguel pkgname=‘bruno-essentials’ pkgdesc=“A metapackage for some packages I find essential. Requires userrepository.eu repo” pkgver=‘0.0.2’ pkgrel=2 ...

Thanks to the suggestion made by ‘guser’, I’ve added my repository to the Arch Wiki, in the non-signed section. I hope Arch Linux users may find it useful. Since I’m writing a post about userrepository, I’ll take the chance to list all packages currently available at the time of writing: acestream-engine acestream-launcher adwaita-qt adwm aerc android-messages-desktop archuseriso athenaeum-git atom-editor-bin axmud bindfs bindmap-git bitwarden-bin boostnote-bin bootiso boston-icon-theme-git brackets brave-dev-bin brightnessctl-git broot cava cawbird-git cht.sh cleanupdate-git clipgrab-kde clipman compton-tryone-git criptext-bin crusta cucumber curseradio-git deoplete diskmonitor dot-browser-bin dotdrop drawio-desktop elicit endlessh f3 falkon-git featherpad fedora-firefox-wayland-bin ferdi-git ffsend flowblade focuswriter foliate-git font-victor-mono fotoxx fuf galois gamehub ghostwriter git-cola glrnvim google-webdesigner gotop-git green-recorder-git gruvbox-material-git gruvbox-material-neosyn-git gstm guiscrcpy i3-gaps-rounded-git i3-plasma i3-volume icecat-bin imcompressor imeditor interui-otf ipman joplin jre kindd-git kitematic-git korla-icon-theme librewolf-bin marktext-bin micro mindforger mindi-converter-git mirage mpv-acestream ncpamixer-git ne newbreeze-git newbreeze-git-debug no-more-secrets notable-bin notekit-git notementum notes-up nx-gtk-themes-git nx-plasma-look-and-feel-git oomox open-adventure otf-anrt-baskervville otf-inter-ui otf-new-york otf-san-francisco-mono otf-san-francisco-pro oxipng pacaudit pakku pdfchain pfetch-git phoneboard pikaur pkghist plasma5-applets-eventcalendar polybar profile-cleaner publii python-pyshp qimgv-git qjournalctl qomui qoob-git qownnotes qtemu-git qtextpad qtwebflix-git qtws-base quilter raven-reader redshift-qt redshift-scheduler rememberthemilk rofi-emoji rofimoji-git roxterm scaleway-cli scat scrcpy sirikali spicetify-cli spotify sshrc station stremio swayshot telegram-desktop-bin terminal-markdown-viewer terminate termtrack-git thonny tiddlydesktop tlpui-git tmuxinator tor-browser trimage ttf-cascadia-code ttf-fira-go ttf-fira-mono-ibx ttf-inter-ui ttf-iosevka ttf-iosevka-ss09 ttf-league-mono ttf-merriweather ttf-op-slate ttf-orbitron ttf-public-sans ttf-roboto-mono typora uberwriter unbound-block-hosts urxvt-tabbedex vscodium webtorrent-desktop wofi-hg wordgrinder writer-git yaru-gnome-shell-theme yaru-gtk-theme yaru-icon-theme yaru-session yaru-sound-theme yay ydiff youtube-dl-gui-git zettlr-bin zlib-zpipe zotero If you use my repository and would like to have a package in there, feel free to drop a suggestion.

My Arch/Manjaro (and any other Arch-based distro) repository continues to receive more packages from AUR. But this post is not about that. I’m writing this because I published the scripts I’m using to build the packages for userrepository.eu. You can get them at Github.

Ever since Carlos Silva left a comment on my last post about this repository, I was left wondering if it wouldn’t be better to migrate my current VM to Scaleway. The price/specs seemed better and for the marginal difference of €1 I would get a dual-core virtual machine with 2GB of RAM and 50Gb of disk space. After a couple of weeks of reflection, I bought a “Start1-S” VPS for €3,99/month and I’ve been (successfully) testing aurto to manage the repository updates. Things have been working out so great that I bought the userrepository.eu domain. ...