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| Arch Spin pt. 3 - packages.x86_64 | Getting all the packages you currently have installed from the Arch repos installed to your Arch ISO | /assets/pngs/arch-spin/pt-3.png | 2018-08-18T16:52:42-04:00 |
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Package configuration
As I said in the last post, this is the file in which you list the applications you wish to install. I won't list the defaults because there a lot. However, this basic setup only builds to a total of ~440 MB so you can add many more applications.
I want the setup on this bootable to be exactly the same as what I
currently have on my system. I did not want to manually enter every
single package though. Thankfully, pacman is a feature-complete tool and
it lets you get a lot of information about installed packages. pacman -Qne lists all the currently installed packages that you explicitly
installed. It does not list dependencies of those applications. What I
did was run pacman -Qne >> ~/liveiso/packages.x86_64 to add all the
apps I have installed from the official Arch repos to the end of the
file so nothing was overwritten.
After, I ran pacman -Qni >> official.txt so I could get information
about all those packages and decide whether or not I wanted to keep
them. For example, I removed some stuff from deepin that I no longer
used, SuperTuxKart, and a lot of other stuff. This shrunk my iso from
3.6 GB to 2.5. Now I have a lot of space to use for installing my
applications from the AUR. This includes making a custom
repo
for the packages and building them in a
chroot
so you make sure you have all the needed dependencies while keeping
your system from being messed up while building.
All of this will be discussed in the next blog post (when I get to it).