fishilico/home-files

putting makecleanpkg in AUR

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yardenac commented

Have you considered moving makecleanpkg into its own separate project and/or packaging it in AUR? I'd be happy to do it but you might be a better candidate if you're interested.

fishilico commented

I do not plan doing so, for two main reasons:

  • If I had time to work on a project like makecleanpkg, I would rather contribute to makechrootpkg (and extra-x86_64-build ) in order to make it usable by an unprivileged user.
  • proot (which is used instead to replace systemd-nspawn in makecleanpkg) is in an uncomfortable state. The last release was 4 years ago (v5.1.0 on https://github.com/proot-me/PRoot/releases) but the project is still quite active on https://github.com/proot-me/PRoot/commits/master. This is due to proot-me/proot#106 blocking proot-me/proot#127. makecleanpkg includes a work-around (with export PROOT_NO_SECCOMP=1) but this breaks some isolation properties.

If you want to package this script in the AUR, feel free to do so. The only request I have is to be credited with a link to https://github.com/fishilico/home-files/blob/master/bin/makecleanpkg (if you host this file elsewhere).

By the way, if you make improvements to the script and want to include them in this repository, I will gladly review any Pull Request.

Thanks for your interest.