I know I am going to get pounded for referring to the Wiki...Arch is superbly updated so actually there is no need to build custom packages...

I want to try Chakra - (Fork of Arch)...Chakra unfortunately doesnt enjoy a huge collection of packages...I have used Debian and Slack and built packages from source,,

The BUILD system is pretty confusing and doesnt follow these steps

1, Download tarball 2. ./configure 3. Make Make Install

In Arch and Chakra what is to be done??

Actually I want to use the package myself and dont want to submit or anything in AUR/CCR etc as I am a noob myself! So all these packing standards are irrelevant to me..How do I locally generate a txz package?

Ex - Homebank accounting software not there in Chakra so I have to download tar ball and do what??

Hello,

You marked your thread as solved. Would you mind sharing your solution so that others can use it when encountering the same or similar problem(s). Thanks in advance. Off the Zero Reply List.

Kind regards,

Eric

The solution was available in Arch Wiki itself under the section "PKGBUILD" , "ABS",makepkg where the methodology used by Arch is made more clear. In fact I now learn that Arch follows the same 3 step build process but in a more organized ports like structure...

I marked it as "SOLVED" as it answered most of my questions

CHAKRA uses a very similar methodology adopted by Arch , the only difference it has its own repos and binaries shouldnt be shared between these 2.

Hi,

Thank you for sharing that, I'm sure it'll be of use to someone.

Kind regards,

Eric