[Resolved] Pacman not able to find aur packages in local database

richbai90 · 2024-03-05 20:28:04

Resolved: Needed to specify the full path to the database.

After suffering through many dependency conflicts due to using Yay to manage AUR installs, I decided it was better to just use Pacman as recommended by the official documentation. I'm using `aur-utils` to assist by managing a local database of built AUR packages. Following the man page I have done the following:

       Append a section for the local repository to /etc/pacman.conf

           [custom]
           SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
           Server = file:///home/custompkgs

       Create the repository root and database:

           $ sudo install -d /home/custompkgs -o $USER
           $ repo-add /home/custompkgs/custom.db.tar.gz

I have deviated from the man page in only where I store and make my PKGBUILD sources. The steps I have followed in that regard are:

    Clone the AUR source

    $ cd ~/aur
    $ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/visual-studio-code-bin.git
    $ makepkg
    $ repo-add -n custom.db.tar *pkg.tar.*

The output of the repo-add command is

(base) ➜  visual-studio-code-bin git:(master) ✗ repo-add -n custom.db.tar *pkg.tar.*
==> Extracting custom.db.tar to a temporary location...
==> Extracting custom.files.tar to a temporary location...
==> Adding package 'visual-studio-code-bin-1.87.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst'
==> WARNING: An entry for 'visual-studio-code-bin-1.87.0-1' already existed
==> Creating updated database file 'custom.db.tar'

Finally I try to install the package

    $ pacman -Syu # update the databases 
    $ pacman -Syu visual-studio-code-bin

The output:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                    134.5 KiB   662 KiB/s 00:00 [############################] 100%
 extra                     8.3 MiB  9.72 MiB/s 00:01 [############################] 100%
 multilib                139.8 KiB  3.90 MiB/s 00:00 [############################] 100%
 custom is up to date
error: target not found: visual-studio-code-bin

My last full system update was on 2024-03-02T21:14:02-0700
My kernel version 6.7.7-zen1-1-zen

Last edited by richbai90 (2024-03-07 17:24:58)

WorMzy · 2024-03-05 21:09:07

Unless I'm missing something, you have told pacman that the repo is located at /home/custompkgs, but you're adding packages to a repo in ~/aur?

$ stat /home/custompkgs/custom.db
$ stat ~/aur/custom.db

richbai90 · 2024-03-06 19:04:29

That was the problem. I didn't realize I had to specify the full path to the db file if the packages weren't in the same directory. Thanks!

WorMzy · 2024-03-06 19:31:16

No problem, please remember to mark your topic as solved by editing the first post and amending the topic title.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … ow_to_post

Oh, and welcome to the forums.

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#1 2024-03-05 20:28:04

[Resolved] Pacman not able to find aur packages in local database

#2 2024-03-05 21:09:07

Re: [Resolved] Pacman not able to find aur packages in local database

#3 2024-03-06 19:04:29

Re: [Resolved] Pacman not able to find aur packages in local database

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Re: [Resolved] Pacman not able to find aur packages in local database

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