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simendsjo

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Registered: 2012-09-27

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[SOLVED] yaourt shows new packages, pacaur says "nothing to do"

Because of https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1455060, I decided to try pacaur.

"pacaur -Syyua" says nothing to do, while "yaourt -Syyua" shows three packages.

Is there anything special I need to do to migrate from yaourt?

Last edited by simendsjo (2014-09-10 08:51:38)

Awebb

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Re: [SOLVED] yaourt shows new packages, pacaur says "nothing to do"

What does pacman say about pending updates? Are there any AUR packages that need an update? One of them lies, now you need to find out which one. If you don't know how to find that out, maybe you should not use a helper or use a low level helper like cower for a while.

Spyhawk

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Re: [SOLVED] yaourt shows new packages, pacaur says "nothing to do"

The pacaur "-Syyua" command is different from the one of yaourt. Please read the man page.

simendsjo

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Registered: 2012-09-27

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Re: [SOLVED] yaourt shows new packages, pacaur says "nothing to do"

What does pacman say about pending updates? Are there any AUR packages that need an update? One of them lies, now you need to find out which one. If you don't know how to find that out, maybe you should not use a helper or use a low level helper like cower for a while.

All three (pacman, pacaur and yaourt) shows these three packages as outdated.

I found the reason though. I assumed "pacaur -Sua" would update *both* core and AUR packages, but it seems they are not combined like they're in yaourt.
The documentation for pacaur states that "a" would use *only* AUR though, so perhaps "pacaur -Su" would update both? I guess I'll soon find out.