[SOLVED] How do I add AUR packages to my buildiso config?

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Hi,
I’m trying to build my own customized .iso from the GNOME base as guided in a wiki titled " Build Manjaro ISOs with buildiso" and I have almost everything set up the way I want, however when I add packages from AURs in my configuration the build throws errors and only packages from official repositories are fetched.

This is an example from Packages-Desktop:

gnome-tweak-tool
>extra gnome-backgrounds

These packages are from official repositories but when I add numix-gtk-theme I get the following errors:

error: target not found: numix-gtk-theme
==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root
==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in make_image_desktop().
    Aborting...

I’ve also came across the wiki guide titled “Buildiso with AUR packages: Using buildpkg” but this only refers to AURs created by myself and uploaded to a custom server not the ones on Arch Linux AURs.

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The wiki contains an article on howto do this

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Only packages present in the repositories defined in pacman.conf of your profile can be added to an ISO.

This means, no AUR packages.

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Ups I missed that one. That is partially correct because you can create your own repository on a web service you control.

You just have to add that repo to pacman.conf.

It is also documented in the README of manjaro-tools repo iso-profiles repo.

You can even use github as an online repo and with that in mind - this would be applicable to a local webserver on your network even on the same machine.

One example is to amend all the steps in the article on creating a custom repo - then starting a local webservice - like caddy and point the config to that local caddy service

[online-repo]
SigLevel = Never
Server = http://machinename/$repo/$arch
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@linux-aarhus Thank you! Resolved and closed. :wink:

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