pacman-static

partially-nerd

So earlier today, I tried implementing pacman-static. Just building it was already an issue. It required slackware's makepkg. Next, I tried using a pre-built executable, and tried debugging, except now it yields the following return :
error: failed to initialize alpm library: (root: /, dbpath: /var/lib/pacman/) could not create database
Any help would be appreciated on how I could port pacman into solus

brent

partially-nerd I searched 'pacman' in the forum threads and scanned every single one...not a single person has tried this. Interesting. Did you search Solus Reddit? sounds like someone would have tried it.
https://github.com/FZUG/repo/issues/77---according to this thread this is a common error because you have to create the alpm library yourself because that's where it wants to go. Sounds too easy, I know.

WetGeek

partially-nerd earlier today, I tried implementing pacman-static

Solus already has one of the better package managers, and it works with the Solus repositories.

Why would you want to install one of the worst package managers (IMHO) that works with Arch?

partially-nerd

brent I got it working. Didn't need to program the entire alpm library. Just needed a mirrorlist, and a config. Now, it says something like (96/96) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100% warning: Public keyring not found; have you run 'pacman-key --init'? downloading required keys... error: keyring is not writable error: required key missing from keyring error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.Here are instructions for anyone else to replicate up to this point:

Get the binary image of pacman-static
Create a pacman config with sudo touch /etc/pacman.conf then copy an example config off the internet
Create a pacman.d folder at /etc/ with sudo mkdir /etc/pacman.d then touch mirrorlist and copy a mirrorlist from some manjaro repo page or something

partially-nerd

WetGeek Because software availability is still a big issue when it comes to solus. The aur, and even just the pacman thingamajig has got basically everything

stalebrim

partially-nerd It just doesn't work that way

WetGeek

partially-nerd Because software availability is still a big issue when it comes to solus.

Interesting. What software is it that you need, and Solus doesn't provide? Maybe it's available via flatpak or snap?

partially-nerd

stalebrim Well, I guess I could manually build everything or use flatpak or snap, but the aur still, for the best of my knowledge, has the best, most simple operations

mpiekp

Use pacman- key --init - to initialise the pacman keyring, but you are asking for massive issues mixing the two
Personally think you would be better putting your energy into leaning to pak=ckage for eopkg and making build files for the software your missing

partially-nerd

mpiekp I've tried that, but with no avail. I will see if I can make some debian unarchiver and packager thing instead.

brent

WetGeek What software is it that you need, and Solus doesn't provide?

The software he wants (vscode) is in the Solus repo. He just wants an outside version (variant) of it.

brent

WetGeek stalebrim wish I could delete my message! there wa a vscode/vscodium thread recently that is identical to this one in spirit if you just switched some words around. my bad,.

stalebrim

brent I don't get why not to learn solbuild in that case.