Unlike the yum plugin, where there is such a feature. Rich.

I give it a try and i've build a patch for adding a pacman-config for febootstrap. Take a look on that but beware that i am not a developer and this is my first ocaml try. I havent updated febootstrap.8 i diff -r -u febootstrap-3.20/src/ febootstrap-3.20_ebal/src/ > pacman_conf.patch hopeful i did it right.

Thats fine - that was the approach i was going too but i couldnt think how to implement this. Thanks for the acknowledge on github. I would like to discuss one more thing: If pacman_config file doesnt exist then exit status of Sys.command cmd is 1 and febootstrap is trying to find this package from aur. eg. $ sudo pacman --config /etc/pacman.conf2 -Sw rsync ; echo $? error: config file /etc/pacman.conf2 could not be read. 1 a fallback mechanism could be this: (match pacman_config with | None -> "" | Some filename when Sys.file_exists filename -> " --config " ^ filename | _ -> "" ) (learning ocaml through febootstrap !) I am not sure what the user experience should be on that. Whats the approach on yum plugin, if the yum config doesnt exist ?

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 09:16:41PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: > Thats fine - that was the approach i was going too but i couldnt think > how to implement this. > Thanks for the acknowledge on github. > > I would like to discuss one more thing: > > If pacman_config file doesnt exist then exit status of Sys.command cmd is 1 > and febootstrap is trying to find this package from aur. > > eg. > $ sudo pacman --config /etc/pacman.conf2 -Sw rsync ; echo $? > error: config file /etc/pacman.conf2 could not be read. > 1 > > a fallback mechanism could be this: > > (match pacman_config with > | None -> "" > | Some filename when Sys.file_exists filename -> " --config " ^ filename > | _ -> "" > ) > > (learning ocaml through febootstrap !) > > I am not sure what the user experience should be on that. > Whats the approach on yum plugin, if the yum config doesnt exist ? OK, I get it, you mean that the later code falls back to AUR. That could happen. I think what is needed is an explicit check earlier on, ie: fun pkg -> if not (Sys.file_exists filename) then failwith (sprintf "%s: pacman-config file does not exist" filename) else (

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if you want to fallback to default pacman.config, then all you need is this (match pacman_config with | None -> "" | Some filename when Sys.file_exists filename -> " --config " ^ filename | _ -> "" ) if you believe that febootstrap should exit, then i dont mind to (learn more ocaml) provide a patch in the next few days. Thats why i asked about the yum plugin approach on yum config file.

just tested it - works fine. i'll write a blog post about febootstrap and archlinux using a local/repo - custom pacman.conf

* Richard W.M. Jones: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Evaggelos Balaskas wrote: >> Something that i would like to have, is the ability to keep the >> download packages in a temp directory when using febootstrap. > > I use squid: > > http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#how-can-i-speed-up-libguestfs-bu... For Debian systems, there is approx.