Malachite is a simple yet useful workspace and local repository management tool, made for packagers of Arch Linux based distributions.
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Malachite is a simple yet useful workspace and local repository management tool, made for packagers of Arch Linux based distributions.

Basic usage

Action Command
Build a package mlc build <package>
Generate local repository mlc repo-gen
Update local repos/PKGBUILDs mlc pull/update
Create and/or open config file mlc conf
Initialises repo/workspace based on config in mlc.toml mlc init
Prunes old duplicate packages from repository mlc prune

Pacman Repository Creation

  • mlc config to create the config (and also populate it)
  • mlc init to build repository base from config file
  • mlc build <package>/--all to either build individual packages or all packages in mlc.toml
  • mlc repo-gen to generate functional pacman repository at <name>/<name>.db from built packages

How to build:

Tested on latest Cargo (1.60.0-nightly)


Debug/development builds

  • cargo build

Optimised/release builds

  • cargo build --release