Since the 24th of January, the date of the last blog post, I’ve added a shitload of new packages to userrepository.eu. Some highlights are sonobus, media-downloader-git, baru, dotgit, timeshift, filmulator and tramp. Expect more packages, as I’m adding new ones frequently. The focus on new packages will probably be scientific tools and maybe a kernel. With that, I’ll probably have to increase the full build frequency from 8h to at least 9 hours. ...
Lately, the repository has been taking +10 hours to compile all the packages. I think that’s a lot for a little more than 250 packages, most of them small utilities and/or _-bin_ files from AUR, built in a DEV1-L (4 cores, 8 Gb RAM) virtual machine from Scaleway. After investigating the matter, I found out that 12 of the packages took four hours and sixteen minutes to build. Pkg Hours Minutes ./pueue/makepkg.log 0 12 ./ffsend/makepkg.log 0 15 ./joplin/makepkg.log 0 15 ./bandwhich/makepkg.log 0 16 ./session-desktop/makepkg.log 0 17 ./mindforger/makepkg.log 0 17 ./giada-git/makepkg.log 0 17 ./brackets/makepkg.log 0 21 ./newbreeze-git/makepkg.log 0 24 ./falkon-git/makepkg.log 0 24 ./newsflash-git/makepkg.log 0 31 ./firefox-kde-opensuse/makepkg.log 0 47 256 I decided to give it a go at reducing the packages build time. The first set of changes I made were: ...
Due to my own dumbness (I mistakenly deleted my Ubuntu partition), I installed Manjaro, using the Manjaro Architect release, on my laptop. I’d been thinking about doing it for a while and finally made it because I was too stupid to read the instructions from cfdisk. The shit you create yourself because you’re in a hurry… Anyway, after installing Manjaro, I started reading a bit about this distro packaging and how I could leverage AUR and binary packages. Inspired by the work of Arcan1s, I bought a cheap VPS from OVH [almost €3/month] and built my repository using Arcan1s scripts. It took a bit of fiddling around the config file and the scripts to customize it to the VPS low raw power, but I eventually got it. ...