Thoughts on sources

Thoughts on sources

[JD Robinson]

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I am wondering everyone's thoughts on a source repository or if someone could point me in the right direction regarding how to compile an application.

I know this has been asked before, so my apologies.

I am just wondering if its possible to xbps-src .... and recomplie the entire operating sytem. I'm having some issues with hardware sensors and have jumped though numerous loops to no avail. I would like to try to compile a kernel module or two and get them loaded to see if that helps.

Re: Thoughts on sources

[Stefan Mühlinghaus]

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Your question is a little vague.

   - If you want to build existing packages from source xbps-src is the way 
   to go. For pointers on how to do that check the void-packages readme 
   <https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/blob/master/README.md>.
   - If you want to create your own packages take a look at the manual 
   <https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/blob/master/Manual.md> on 
   github.
   - To create packages for kernel modules you might want to take a look at 
   the existing DKMS-packages like broadcom-wl-dkms 
   <https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/broadcom-wl-dkms> 
   or zfs 
   <https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/tree/master/srcpkgs/zfs>.
   
I sincerely doubt that you will have to recompile the entire system though 
:)

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Re: Thoughts on sources

[JD Robinson]

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I thought so on the kernel modules.

I'll give those links a look, I'm trying to figure out how to come by the source from which a pre-existing binary package was compiled/packaged.

Not being in void very long, in apt/bed repositories it would have been a source repository and somepackage-version-src.deb ( or what have you for the extension ).

I haven't had time to experiment lately.

Re: Thoughts on sources

[Juan RP]

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All sources are available in the void-packages repository and are used by 
xbps-src, which is the
utility that compiles the code (if applicable) and generates the binary 
packages required by xbps.

You can rebuild easily all your packages with xbps-src:

 1- get a list of pkgs that were installed manually (not as dependencies): 
xbps-query -m
 2- build all pkgs set on that list with xbps-src: ./xbps-src -N pkg <pkg>

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