larch8: first checkin, still needs some work

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diff --git a/build_tools/larch8/larch0/scripts/repos.sh b/build_tools/larch8/larch0/scripts/repos.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Script to build repository database archives from the current state of
+# the pacman/sync database on the running system.
+
+# $1 (optional) is the directory within which subdirectories for each
+# repository will be built. The default is the current directory.
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+   d="."
+else
+   d="$1"
+fi
+
+for f in core extra community; do
+    mkdir -p ${d}/${f}
+    echo "Compressing $f db ..."
+    tar -czf ${d}/${f}/${f}.db.tar.gz -C /var/lib/pacman/sync/${f} .
+done