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[pirate486743186]

makedeb is a makepkg fork for debian.

I didn't add it in firecfg because makepkg isn't there either.

[kmk3]

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@pirate486743186 commented on Aug 8:

makedeb is a makepkg fork for debian.

Link to the source code for reference:

• https://github.com/makedeb/makedeb

Nice, I always wanted to be able to use makepkg and PKGBUILDs on apt-based
systems, as they make creating and building packages a breeze.

See also also pacapt:

• https://github.com/icy/pacapt

An ArchLinux's pacman-like shell wrapper for many package managers. 56KB and
run anywhere.

Basic operations

For system package manager

• Update package database: pacapt -Sy, or pacapt update
• Install a package: pacapt -S foo, or pacapt install foo
• Search a package: pacapt -Ss foo, or pacapt search foo
• Remove a package: pacapt -R foo, or pacapt remove foo
• Upgrade system: pacapt -Su, or pacapt upgrade
• Remove orphans: pacapt -Sc, or pacapt autoremove foo
• Clean up: pacapt -Scc or pacapt -Sccc, or pacapt clean

With alias pacact=pacman, you can run the exact same commands as on Arch to
install/remove packages and update/upgrade the system on apt-based and
rpm-based distributions (among many others).

A non-rolling distro with the DFSG (and separate free/non-free repos) + Arch
tooling sounds pretty interesting.

Maybe even the real pacman could be ported eventually (or a non-rolling
pacman-based distro could be made), as even though Arch officially supports
only x86_64, MSYS2 on Windows shows that pacman can work with multi-arch
(including mingw-w64-i686, mingw-w64-x86_64, clang-w64-i686 and
clang-w64-x86_64).

Lastly, if someone were to make an AUR for Debian or Ubuntu, that would be
amazing. Like PPAs, but in source form, using git and PKGBUILDs.

[glitsj16]

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Nice, I always wanted to be able to use makepkg and PKGBUILDs on apt-based
systems, as they make creating and building packages a breeze.

Lastly, if someone were to make an AUR for Debian or Ubuntu, that would be
amazing. Like PPAs, but in source form, using git and PKGBUILDs.

Wasn't this formerly called the 'Debian User Repository' (DUR)? Personally I wouldn't hold too many breaths on any of the above promises. It sure sounds nice on paper. Let's hope it doesn't turn into broken frankendebian installations.

[pirate486743186]

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You can't use the AUR PKGBUILDs directly, you need to manually convert them first. Most dependencies, versions, hacks, and variables are wrong.

DUR was renamed to mpr
https://mpr.makedeb.org/packages
the helper tap was abandoned because of lack of time( same dev with makedeb). There's una instaid, i didn't try it yet (mpr is still a bit thin on PKGBUILDs).
https://github.com/AFK-OS/una

It's still in early stages of development.

[kmk3]

LGTM.

[kmk3]

Relates to #5299.

[netblue30]

all in, thanks!