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nearing_migration

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Registered: 2023-04-16

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[SOLVED] yay refuses to work

For some unknown reason yay now demands that I feed more data to git when I run the yay -S command. This is something that I was never asked before.

 -> error fetching [AUR_package]: There is no tracking information for the current branch.
Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.
See git-pull(1) for details.

    git pull <remote> <branch>

If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

    git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> master 
         context: exit status 1

Is there a way to get past this without setting up a Github repository? I never had to play around with git before and I was able to use yay just fine. The only change I've made recently was updating my system.

UPDATE: Don't use parallel-launcher.

Last edited by nearing_migration (2023-11-27 02:02:21)

nearing_migration

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Re: [SOLVED] yay refuses to work

I've tested yay with a few other packages and it works perfectly fine. For some reason the parallel-launcher package gives the error seen above. Is there an explanation for this?

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] yay refuses to work

So does this have anything to do with yay specifically?  Can you clone the aur repo directly?  If so, try deleting any yay cache directory for the package.

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nearing_migration

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Re: [SOLVED] yay refuses to work

So does this have anything to do with yay specifically?

I'm not entirely sure yet. Maybe there's some oddity in this AUR package?

Can you clone the aur repo directly?  If so, try deleting any yay cache directory for the package.

Git clone appears to be working just fine.

Stratoblaster

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Registered: 2018-12-04

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Re: [SOLVED] yay refuses to work

If you *must* use an AUR helper, try paru-bin if indeed yay is the issue.

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Re: [SOLVED] yay refuses to work

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] yay refuses to work

So does this have anything to do with yay specifically?  Can you clone the aur repo directly?  If so, try deleting any yay cache directory for the package.

parallel-launcher builds for me in a clean chroot which does not have git installed.