Use public repo as source for aur repo ?

Lone_Wolf · 2025-08-16 12:51:34

I have all my aur packages in a local repo that pushes directly to aur.
The recent downtimes made me realise that I have no independent backup.

My plan is to setup public repos with sourcehut or codeberg.
I'm leaning to treating 3rd party as upstream and telling aur to pull from there, but pushing to both is an alternative.

How can I implement this change and which alternative would you prefer ?

gromit · Yesterday 10:27:07

I'm using aurpublish for this usecase: https://github.com/eli-schwartz/aurpublish / https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/aurpublish/

This way I can have a central repo on Github (but really it could be any git forge): https://github.com/christian-heusel/aur

Lone_Wolf · Yesterday 11:28:17

I do remember looking at aurpubllish some years ago, but think "subtree push stratagem" is what gave me concern.

Does it store everything in one big local repo and use custom commands to push/pull individual packages ?

gromit · Yesterday 11:33:35

Yes exactly, you git add/commit etc. as usual and then also do a aurpublish <directory> to publish to the AUR.

Lone_Wolf · Yesterday 12:10:46

I sometimes mess up a local package repo and have to recreate it from scratch / pull from upstream.
The only way I found to do this with aurpublish was to delete the entire repo and redo the whole setup.

Since then I've stuck to separate local repos so problems in one repo don't affect the rest.

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Use public repo as source for aur repo ?

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