Creating sample pacman packages

You will need:

• an archlinux installation
• pacman -S base-devel for basic build requirements (like debian “build-essential”)

Run makepkg inside this directory to produce .pkg.tar. archives. This may be .xz, .zst, .gz etc. depending on the current defaults, see makepkg.conf(5) “PKGEXT” for details. The archives will appear in the current directory, or the “PKGDEST” defined by makepkg.conf(5).

Byte-for-byte reproduction

You will need:

• an archlinux installation
• pacman -S devtools for the clean chroot builder/reproducer

Run makerepropkg /path/to/hello-debug-1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (or whichever the archive filename is) inside this directory.