packages

Packages for Smith-Pad-OS and Arch based distributions.

What is the benefit of this repository?

The benefit of this repository is like this. You connected to a network where it is required for pacman to update packages and upgrade packages, however, when it comes to performance updating or upgrading packages via pacman, it will kinda be a problem.

Here are the steps as to how the process it works:

1. Based on scheduled time of day, the packages gets fetched via Git and downloads into the local system.

2. Using pacman.conf, it will not be routed packages from server. However the pacman.conf will be included with packages downloaded on the system, which means when you do sudo pacman -Syyu. The update will be as quick before you blink an eye.

Overview of the updating packages process

Based on the schedules time of day, the packages are been fetched and downloaded to Smith-Pad-OS or arch based distro, then it will install/upgrade packages offline, which makes it quick.

Dependencies:

• Smith-Pad-OS or arch based distributions
• repoadd
• repoctl
• pacman
• makepkg
• fakeroot

Steps to create your own repository

This is just an example in general. But this is how you are able to create and maintain your own repositories.

Create a folder in a directory.

touch <folder name> 

Change the directory into the folder name

cd <folder name

Then use repo-add .db.tar.gz

This will initialize pacman to recognize a local repository in the system.

repo-add packages.db.tar.gz

Include the pacman.conf

What does it mean?

name of the repository = This the exact name that you added in the folder that you created from repo-add.

[name of the repository here]
SigLevel = Never
Server = file://usr/share/FAST