I did it :) Arch Linux on my external USB disk

Posted on February 16, 2008
Filed Under arch, distros, linux |

The weekend brought to me a new shining toy to play with! I’ve installed Arch Linux on my external USB hard drive :) . Now I have a “mobile” Arch to use from any usb capable to boot machine (with some retouch of course).

First Impressions

I must say that I’m very impressed. I really can’t believe that it is so clean and simply customizable. I’ve already installed a lot of things, from Xorg to gnome to pulseaudio to compiz-fusion and all went smooth. It’s much more hard to customize an Ubuntu distro without breaking something. So Arch could become my first distro or maybe I simply will maintain both Ubuntu on my main hard disk and Arch on my external drive.

What could be improved

I would like that abs could sync aur PKGBUILD also, in a subdir called aur for example. Could be that this is already possible and I still don’t know how to do it (suggestions ?)

What I have done next

A really bad thing is that more and more users told me that they can’t build cGmail 0.5 for arch. I don’t want that any of you must survive without cGmail :) , so I have read arch docs on how to build a package, tweaked the 0.4.1 PKGBUILD, patched cGmail, and voilà now I have a working Arch package for it. In cGmail 0.5 release, I’ve used python-distutils-extra mainly for i18n. Arch doesn’t include this extras and for now i18n was disabled (you must use cGmail in english). In future versions of cGmail I will try to solve this problem.

PKGBUILD Download

cGmail 0.5 Arch PKGBUILD and patches

P.S. Please rename the file in cgmail-arch.tar.gz in order to be able to open it, wordress insist to rename it!

Comments

4 Responses to “I did it :) Arch Linux on my external USB disk”

  1. SpookyET on February 17th, 2008 7:11 pm

    Now, that you are an Arch citizen, you should take over cGmail in AUR. I’ll orphan it. Once registered, you can adopt it.

    http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=10716&O=0&L=0&C=0&K=cgmail&SB=n&SO=a&PP=25&do_MyPackages=0&do_Orphans=0&SeB=nd

    By the way, I’m 99% sure that Ubuntu will be erased and Arch will be transferred from the external.

    As for AUR, you need yaourt. It allows you to download of AUR just like you use pacman. It prompts you to edit the PKGBUILD. It also takes care of dependencies.

    You might also want pacman-color and alias pacman=pacman-color.

    Ciao!

  2. SpookyET on February 20th, 2008 9:47 pm

    Check that you clicked the “Notify” button on AUR for the cgmail package. I don’t know why it does not do it automatically.

  3. Luke Stepniowski on June 24th, 2008 3:04 pm

    I’m seeing cgmailservice 0.5 segfauling routinely. Let me know if there any additional details I could provide.

    /var/log/messages:Jun 23 14:06:26 lstepnio kernel: [ 3651.615768] cgmailservice[11657]: segfault at 00000004 eip b6e91ef6 esp b2ff7738 error 6
    /var/log/messages:Jun 23 15:38:23 lstepnio kernel: [ 3855.031360] cgmailservice[9986]: segfault at 00000004 eip b6e7aef6 esp ae1fb738 error 6
    /var/log/messages:Jun 23 16:42:06 lstepnio kernel: [ 486.286250] cgmailservice[7282]: segfault at 00000004 eip b6ea7ef6 esp b65a6768 error 6
    /var/log/messages:Jun 24 09:34:01 lstepnio kernel: [ 346.615525] cgmailservice[7151]: segfault at 00000004 eip b6e93ef6 esp b49196e8 error 6
    /var/log/messages.0:Jun 20 16:21:08 lstepnio kernel: [ 1481.942684] cgmailservice[6760]: segfault at 00000004 eip b6edaef6 esp bfc3bf18 error 6

  4. Blasse on July 9th, 2008 4:18 pm

    “I would like that abs could sync aur PKGBUILD also, in a subdir called aur for example. Could be that this is already possible and I still don’t know how to do it (suggestions ?)” There is a package in AUR that is capable of this –> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5920

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