[SOLVED] How to update a single AUR package?

fdservices · 2013-10-16 12:38:56

I am sorry if this is a real newbie question, but I have searched for the answer and cannot find it.

I have pacman, packer and apper installed at present.

What I would like to do is:

1) List all the AUR packages installed

# pacman -Qqm

2) Check the ones that have updates available

3) Update the ones that I chose to update from the list returned by 2)

I am sure that this is easy but I could do with some help with 2) and 3)

Thanks

Andrew

Last edited by fdservices (2014-01-27 11:57:47)

Xabre · 2013-10-16 12:42:40

cower?

karol · 2013-10-16 12:49:37

I think packer can do it, if not https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers

How exactly were you using packer?

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jdarnold · 2013-10-16 12:50:36

$ packer -Syu --aur

will do it for you.

wirr · 2013-10-16 12:51:27

1) skip

2) Something like:

# pacman -Syu
$ yes no | packer -Su

3)

packer -S choose from list returned by 2)

karol · 2013-10-16 12:55:50

You shouldn't cherry-pick updates. You should always update all packages.

wirr · 2013-10-16 13:04:54

Of course not, but he asked that question?

One day one may has a huge, still working aur package and some small non working ones and no time to compile.
But you should know what you are doing and compile that other package asap.

fdservices · 2013-10-16 13:08:59

# packer -Syu --auronly tries to update all AUR packages and does not allow for one package only.

similarly
# pacman -Syu upgrades all packages except AUR

$ yes no | packer -Su you've lost me on this one, packer -Su does not accept a package name and tries to upgrade all packages except AUR

I think I can do it with pacman -Su --auronly, but it is not too easy.

It returns:

warning: packagename is up to date -- reinstalling

Aur Targets    (1): packagename

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

so I could parse the result, answer no if it was up to date and ask if it was not up to date.

Hmm

Andrew

Perfect Gentleman · 2013-10-16 13:09:09

yaourt -Syua foo

karol · 2013-10-16 13:09:10

Sure, e.g. there may be an update that just fixes a bug for the 64-bit architecture. I use 32-bit, so I don't care about this update.

You can ignore packages from the repos and from the AUR, but OP may not be able to discern when it's OK to do so.

fdservices wrote:

I think I can do it with pacman -Su --auronly, but it is not too easy.

I think you mean 'packer' here.

Last edited by karol (2013-10-16 13:10:57)

fdservices · 2013-10-16 13:11:55

In an ideal world we might be able to update all AUR packages without further thought, but, I am afraid, there are several up there which simply do not work as expected without a few tweaks to the PKGBUILD, and yes, I do post the problems, and no, they are not always corrected.

So on the principle of Arch users look after themselves (that is probably my principal) I take control and look before leaping

Thanks for the comments

Andrew

SidK · 2013-10-16 13:12:50

jdarnold wrote:

$ packer -Syu --aur
will do it for you.

--auronly

If you want to programmatically find the available updates without applying them, then, as wirr said,

yes no | packer -Syu --auronly

No need to update pacman beforehand.

There is also aurcheck which lists out of date AUR packages.

Edit: wow, people wrote a lot of posts while I was typing this

Last edited by SidK (2013-10-16 13:13:42)

fdservices · 2013-10-16 13:13:49

Hi karol

Sure, e.g. there may be an update that just fixes a bug for the 64-bit architecture. I use 32-bit, so I don't care about this update.
You can ignore packages from the repos and from the AUR, but OP may not be able to discern when it's OK to do so.
fdservices wrote:
I think I can do it with pacman -Su --auronly, but it is not too easy.
I think you mean 'packer' here.

Yes, I think I did

Andrew

fdservices · 2013-10-16 13:25:04

Please can someone explain this to me

yes no | packer -Syu --auronly

What does "yes no" pipe to packer?

OK I have it - "yes" is the command and it repeatedly send "no" to packer - that is really counter-intuitive!

There are some very clever people out there.

Andrew

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