Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Pryor
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:53:45AM -0600, Gary Wright wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:16 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz) > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > > > > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > > > time and use

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Gary Wright
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 08:16 -0500, Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > > > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > > clear on: >

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Ray Rashif
On 14 April 2010 21:20, Jim Pryor wrote: > Safer to do it in a place that regular users can write to, and to do > all your makepkg-ing as a non-root user. You only need root privileges > for the actual install step. You could do a makepkg followed by a sudo > pacman -U packageyoumade-1.0.0-1-arch.

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Campbell
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > clear on: > > Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is > simply a direc

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Pryor
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:12:11AM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > clear on: > > Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is > simpl

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz)
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st > time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not > clear on: > > Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is > simply a direc

Re: [arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Nick Stepa
On 04/14/2010 04:12 PM, Carlos Mennens wrote: I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not clear on: Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the pack

[arch-general] First Time Using AUR

2010-04-14 Thread Carlos Mennens
I am getting ready to use my newly built Arch Linux system for the 1st time and use AUR and read the Wiki but I have a question that I am not clear on: Next choose an appropriate build directory. A build directory is simply a directory where the package will be made or "built" and can be any direc