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statulr

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PKGBUILD Review: aurc

Code is open-sourced, all links are in https://aurc.run/
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/ … ILD?h=aurc

statulr

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

# Maintainer: Statulr <re@citra.lol>
# Contributor: Echo J. <aidas957 at gmail dot com>

pkgname=aurc
pkgver=1.2.3
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="Fast Easy way to Install and Update Aur and Non-Aur Arch Linux Packages!"
arch=('i686' 'pentium4' 'x86_64' 'arm' 'armv7h' 'armv6h' 'aarch64' 'riscv64')
url="https://github.com/statulr/aurc"
license=('GPL3')
depends=(
  'less'
  'pacman'
  'gcc'
  'curl'
  'make'
  'base-devel'
  'git'
  'tar'
  'json-c'
)
optdepends=(
  'sudo: privilege elevation'
  'doas: privilege elevation'
)
source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::${url}/archive/${pkgver}.tar.gz")
sha256sums=('565c091a962032a7affef32cc779260fb4ec0ae4ef800666b09e8e5840010c35') # needs to update the sha256sum for every git archive ${pkgver} tarball from ${source}

build() {
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}/src
  make build
}

package() {
  cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver}/src

  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin # Workaround a Makefile bug
  DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" PREFIX="/usr" make install
  install -Dm644 ../LICENSE "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/"${pkgname}"/LICENSE
}

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,038

Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

AUR helpers that don't restrict themselves to managing aur are not very popular on this forum, and the upstream readme.md doesn't improve things.

From a technical viewpoint the pkgbuild does seem to comply with archlinux packaging standards.

arch=('i686' 'pentium4' 'x86_64' 'arm' 'armv7h' 'armv6h' 'aarch64' 'riscv64')

I'm not aware of riscv64 or pentium4 archlinux variant, are you sure this will work on all those architectures ?

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statulr

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

Updated, I appreciate the feedback Lone_Wolf, I thought something felt off ?

statulr

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

AUR helpers that don't restrict themselves to managing aur are not very popular on this forum, and the upstream readme.md doesn't improve things

Hi, I was wondering what you mean by the upstream readme.md doesn't improve things.

Alongside, would you like it to just have AUR functionality?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

The fact that it appears to say that yay is the AUR is a MASSIVE red flag.

statulr

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

Wdym? + I am now gonna make it just AUR

statulr

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

( I take that back after further discussion with another person I will keep non-aur functionality, it will just be swapped around )

statulr

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

oh I get what you mean scimmia fixed

Lone_Wolf

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

I dislike software names that don't match the functionality a lot .

Your project is called Aur Companion .

on the todo list you have 'Ability to Modify Arch Mirrorlist'
mirrors are maintained in pacman.conf and have very little to do with AUR.

From the usage list

refresh - ( Refresh Repository Database ) - pacman territory
github - ( Opens GitHub ) not related to archlinux, pacman , or aur
query - ( Query if a package is installed ) substitute for pacman -Q I guess ?

The remove options in the usage list all read as things done by pacman .

If I had to describe the project I'd use something like this : "pacman wrapper with aur support and a few extras to make maintenance of archlinux systems easier"

There's a dutch saying "De vlag dekt de lading niet" that describes my feeling about this.
It's idiom so not easy to translate but "sailing under false flag" and "It doesn't actually do what it says on the tin" have a similar meaning.

Note that if you changed the name / description I would still have issues with the project, but atleast it would reflect the purpose of the project.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-12-10 10:56:20)

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statulr

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Re: PKGBUILD Review: aurc

I am changing it to be a pacman wrapper with aur functionality as suggested by someone rn, so keybinds will be the same in the new update, those commands do use pacman yes