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Speed up Archlinux AUR builds: use all cores and disable package compression
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speed-up-arch-aur-builds.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# use all possible cores for subsequent package builds
sed -i 's,#MAKEFLAGS="-j2",MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)",g' /etc/makepkg.conf
# don't compress the packages built here
sed -i "s,PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.xz',PKGEXT='.pkg.tar',g" /etc/makepkg.conf
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