[SOLVED]Where does AUR come from?

jc-kakashi · 2013-05-27 01:13:48

Hi all, recently I moved houses and lost my unlimited adsl1(actual unlimited with tpg, not faux unlimited like some other plans). I am now on 15gb a month wireless broadband with telstra/bigpond, as that is the best I can get.

Anyway, my question is, is the AUR mirrored to sites that mirror arch linux repos? Eg AarNet mirrors the extra/community etc repos, and I have only enabled the aarnet repository in my mirrorlist as it is unmetered for me. However, I couldn't see a folder called AUR in the directory listing on the AarNet site. So if I am downloading/compiling AUR packages, are these sourced from a certain site, ignoring my mirror list? I am hoping that it is not just getting them from https://aur.archlinux.org/.

Thanks

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drcouzelis · 2013-05-27 01:25:40

Are you familiar with how the AUR works? How do you install AUR packages?

AUR PKGBUILD files come from https://aur.archlinux.org, but PKGBUILD files are incredibly super duper ridiculously tiny. It is makepkg that downloads the actual source code / data files for the package, which comes from the original websites that host the source code.

jc-kakashi · 2013-05-27 01:28:10

I know how to (barely) compile aur packages without a helper, but one of the first things I do when I get an arch system up is install packer. So the PKGBUILD files are tiny, what are the "original websites"? I am guessing this isn't a repository mirror like aarnet, but rather sites of the individual package developers? Or not?

jasonwryan · 2013-05-27 01:30:18

Yes: if you check in the source array of the PKGBUILDs, you will see where the tarballs are being downloaded from.

jc-kakashi · 2013-05-27 01:32:46

jasonwryan wrote:

Yes: if you check in the source array of the PKGBUILDs, you will see where the tarballs are being downloaded from.

Ok, so I had a look and unfortunately they were all random sites

Ah well. Will just stick mainly to the official repositories.

Thanks for the help!

jasonwryan · 2013-05-27 01:49:31

The AUR is unsupported, which means the only way to download the tarballs is from the originating (upstream) site.

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[SOLVED]Where does AUR come from?

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