Note that I am not able to fetch the list of files of a given package with
such a repository. Precisely pacman -Fy fails.
I've not found time to investigate this problem. Maybe it's just a problem
with the version of repo-add tool that I"ve used...
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6 July 2016 at 14:14, Matthias Meulien
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> 1. Where do I download "the repository"?
> >
> >
> > From http://repo.msys2.org/mingw using curl or wget for example
> >
> >>
> >> 2. What do I need to do to configure pacman to use my mirror rather
> >> than the main repo?
> >
> >
> > Edit /etc/pacman.conf and define a new repository as explained in
> > pacman.conf manpage. The new repository can be local or remote depending
> on
> > your needs.
> >
> > For a remote server, just setup an HTTP server serving the content of the
> > directory where you downloaded packages (step. 1).
> >
> > Packages must be indexed using the tool repo-add, see the manpage again.
> >
> > That's all!
>
> Nice! Thanks for that :-)
> Paul
>
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