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[RennyDemmy]

Hello there,

If we use this project in general, how can we add repositories to download packages?

Also is this compatible with pamac (even if it's weird question to ask)?

[FSMaxB]

If we use this project in general

Just to be clear. This project is not there to actually be used. It's a fun project to play around with how package managers work.
Please do not install packages with it into a working Linux system, unless you really know what you're doing and make sure that packages are only installed into some subdirectory that doesn't interfer with it.

lfs-me is a project that I created for two main reasons.

1. I was going through Linux From Scratch and had to start over from the beginning too many times because of making a mistake that broke everything, so I thought I'd like to have a way to recover if I make a mistake.
2. I was thinking: How hard could it actually be to make a simple package manager 😅

If you understand German, there is even a talk I made about this 7! years ago (I'm getting old ...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO0M7alWimY

how can we add repositories to download packages?

I don't know, that is up to you.
I never planned for adding repositories of binary packages, because this is primarily intended to compile packages from source directly. The only concept of a repository that lfs-me has is a directory of package descriptions, like https://github.com/FSMaxB/lfs-me-repos. But there is no dependency resolution whatsoever.

I mean if you build binary packages and put them on a webserver, you could probably hack together something that will download and install them. Feel free to do that, this is a project to play around with how package managers can work, after all.

Also is this compatible with pamac (even if it's weird question to ask)?

Simple answer: No!

The build files are just shell scripts that load the package manager into itself. I took my inspiration from Archlinux' pacman, but that's all there is, it's a completely different format that is completely incompatible with everything except lfs-me. And even that doesn't have any real compatibility across versions.

[RennyDemmy]

I never thought I would get a reply for this, but thank you for your response.

I was thinking: How hard could it actually be to make a simple package manager 😅

I also tried out making my own. It turns out a package management system just automates stuff. Mine is something that downloads a script from a remote site and then executes the script that contains the commands to download and compile a package. Mine is way less advanced than yours.