Package management

Tools

• pacman
• https://www.msys2.org/docs/package-management/
• pacboy: https://www.msys2.org/docs/package-naming/#avoiding-writing-long-package-names

Creating packages

• https://www.msys2.org/wiki/Creating-Packages/
  • https://archlinux.org/pacman/makepkg.8.html

Setup

• use rankmirrors for MSYS2 packages? : Server downtime: Lessons learned · Issue #2178 · msys2/MSYS2-packages · GitHub
• CI cache packages? : (Discussion) Prune old packages from the repos · Issue #2174 · msys2/MSYS2-packages · GitHub
• Check space
  • https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-pacman/issues/59
  • https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/blob/master/.ci/ci-build.sh
• https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2/blob/master/main.js

Disable path mangling: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7250130/how-to-stop-mingw-and-msys-from-mangling-path-names-given-at-the-command-line

• MSYS2: MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL="*" environment variable
  • https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/84