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daniel7558

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Registered: 2017-01-26

Posts: 3

Resolve AUR dependencies in package

Hi all,

I am trying to clean up my system by moving installed packages into my own meta-packages that I would then install on all of my machines to have the same software available everywhere.
I set up my own repository and added it to

/etc/pacman.conf

. So far so good.

When it comes to AUR packages, pacman would obviously not know how to get them, so I thought yay, trizen, ... would be able to resolve them. However, they don't.
Is there a AUR helper that can resolve AUR dependencies for non-AUR packages? I tried to find a flag for this but could not find anything. (Depending on your view, this might even be considered a security vulnerability, so not sure if this would be supported at all.)

Does somebody know how to deal with this issue or have a workaround?
I thought about building the AUR packages once and adding them to my custom repository, however, I would prefer to build them locally on each machine.

Cheers,
Daniel

For example:

setup-academia

is my meta package that I host in my own repo.

zoom

is the AUR package on which

setup-academia

depends.

yay -S setup-academia  
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "zoom", a dependency of "setup-academia"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      setup-academia
...

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,561

Re: Resolve AUR dependencies in package

I thought about building the AUR packages once and adding them to my custom repository, however, I would prefer to build them locally on each machine.

Then why have a custom repository at all? You want some things pre-built and some things not? Why?

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,534

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Re: Resolve AUR dependencies in package

#!/bin/sh

builddir=/tmp/aur
mkdir -p $builddir

pacman -Sp $(expac -S %D $@) 2>&1 >/dev/null \
	| cut -d' ' -f5 \
	| while read aurpkg; do
		git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/${aurpkg}.git ${builddir}/${aurpkg}
		cd ${builddir}/${aurpkg}
		makepkg -si --asdeps
	done

pacman -S $@

Keep in mind the assumption here that pkgname==pkgbase.  This assumption has been adequate for my use of the AUR, but there are exceptions.  To "fix" this assumption, replace the git clone command as desired.

(usage: pass this script a list of your metapackages that you want to install)

Note this was mostly done because I was bored.  Meta packages for your use case are just a really bad idea (they'd be a great idea if you built the AUR packages once and added them to your repo).  For your use, just get a list, then on each new system:

$AURHELPER -S < /path/to/pkg.list

Or if you really want to use your meta packages still:

$AURHELPER -S --asdeps < /path/to/pkg.list
pacman -D --asexplicit $YourMeta1 $YourMeta2 $YourMeta3

Last edited by Trilby (2023-05-11 17:41:54)

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