What is you favourite program to update packages installed by aur?

ezzetabi · 2009-03-28 09:13:13

I used aurbuild, but I saw there are many... So what is your pacman for AUR? And overall why?

Alxe · 2009-03-28 09:20:50

I think Yaourt is the best one, because it's like a Pacman with more options
But I'd really like to install things manually, altrought I don't need anything by now.

Vintendo · 2009-03-28 09:22:13

I still like yaourt very much because it integrates the AUR with the rest of the repositories. But Yaourt keeps adding stuff I don't want, like the new version and new release shizzle.

Alxe · 2009-03-28 09:30:28

@Vintendo: I really think Pacman should include an official and optional "extension" for more features like AUR and colors (without manual tweaking) that could be choseable on a configuration file, but leaving the basic on a normal install for ease of use and things.

Vintendo · 2009-03-28 09:46:04

I think so too, but the Arch devs don't want that. They don't want too make it too easy to install packages from the aur.

ezzetabi · 2009-03-28 09:51:22

I really cannot understand the reason... Ok, Arch is a distro for advanced users, but 'not too easy' sounds always strange.

mike_93 · 2009-03-28 10:15:16

I think that it is because the packaged in [unsupported] are not 'official' and could potentially mess up your system. So the devs just don't want you to install a ton of untrusted stuff without really knowing what you're doing.

Alxe · 2009-03-28 10:18:16

@mike_93: You are right, a novice could always mess it with pacman at hands if he had that "extension". But yeah, it could be nice if it could be easier to get packages in [unsupported] via pacman... Or like making more [unsupported] going to community at hands of trusted people. Maybe some people should track those packages and see if they are correct and harmless.

Xyne · 2009-03-28 10:35:31

Alxe wrote:

Or like making more [unsupported] going to community at hands of trusted people. Maybe some people should track those packages and see if they are correct and harmless.

You mean like the Trusted Users?
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR … Guidelines

*edit*
Btw, to answer the question, I write my own tools (e.g. pbget & paconky) to handle AUR packages.

Last edited by Xyne (2009-03-28 10:37:05)

tomk · 2009-03-28 10:47:40

The "why doesn't pacman support the AUR" question has been discussed to death, and the dev decision is not going to change, so try to keep this thread on topic please i.e. about AUR tools and utilities.

Dieter@be · 2009-03-28 10:55:37

wget && tar && makepkg && pacman -U

no not really, i use yaourt, but yaourt is just a wrapper around the above programs.

Vintendo · 2009-03-28 11:21:10

I think every aur helper is that

evr · 2009-03-28 16:40:01

+ 1 for yaourt

bender02 · 2009-03-28 16:44:50

arson

wonder · 2009-03-28 16:49:19

i don't prefer any of those "apps". i rather do things manually because it is easy enough to look at the build, modify stuff if are out of date and run makepkg.

hatten · 2009-03-28 18:35:10

yaourt

pointone · 2009-03-28 20:58:52

Custom Python script that simply downloads remote PKGBUILDs and compares '%(pkgver)s-%(pkgrel)s' with the output from `pacman -Qm`. If a newer version is found, it will grab the tarball for me.

Stefan Husmann · 2009-03-28 21:31:35

For downloading packages I use aurdownload from the aurscripts package I maintain in AUR, or autoaur, if I want do download more than one package.

bernarcher · 2009-03-28 22:03:24

Usually yaourt (if I am lazy), yet prefering manual PKGBUILD install to learn more about the package in question.

Allan · 2009-03-29 00:14:59

Vintendo wrote:

I think so too, but the Arch devs don't want that. They don't want too make it too easy to install packages from the aur.

That is not the reason pacman does not support the AUR (but is the reason yaourt is not in the repos). The AUR is arch specific, while pacman tries to not be tied to Arch in anyway.

Anyway, I only have three packages I don't maintain installed from the AUR. I use a bookmarks folder in firefox and makepkg to keep them updated...

bender02 · 2009-03-29 09:57:07

Allan wrote:

Anyway, I only have three packages I don't maintain installed from the AUR. I use a bookmarks folder in firefox and makepkg to keep them updated...

Well... TU status has its advantages [edit: and disadvantages]

Last edited by bender02 (2009-03-29 09:58:04)

ProgDan · 2009-03-30 10:29:06

I use yaourt, especially because of possibility to check and update all packages from AUR.
Also, I'm lazy man so installing manually deps from AUR is not my favourite work, yaourt has it all, so it was my natural choice.

cmb · 2009-04-02 16:20:29

I like aurshell. The package is named aurshell-git in unsupported.

X/ax · 2009-04-02 16:59:07

I really didn't understand most tools, so I went for yaourt... Tried aurbuild, aurshell, etc... They all seem to do the work, but I don't get around to them...

brisbin33 · 2009-04-02 17:18:46

i just scripted the wget / tar / makepkg / pacman -U process with prompts between each step. it also starts with a lynx aur google search to get the package name.

script:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Aurget V 0.1
# pbrisbin 2009
#
# This script searches google for Arch Linux AUR packages
#
# The user selects from the results and the packages is
# optionally extracted, built, and installed
#
# Packages can be saved or discarded
#
# Usage: aurget [packagename]
#
# ToDo: track version info to see if your due for an update
#       (basically, become yaourt!)
###


## User Config
# just some directories
WD="/tmp/aurget"                # place to do some work
PD="$HOME/Packages"             # place to store built packages
SAFE="$PD/aurget_dump"          # place to dump data if something happens


## Program below
# set up the environment
[ -d $WD ] || (mkdir $WD && chmod 700 $WD)
[ -d $SAFE ] || mkdir -p $SAFE

LNG=$(echo $LANG | cut -d '_' -f 1)
CHARSET=$(echo $LANG | cut -d '.' -f 2)

# minimal error checking
if [ -z $1 ]; then
  echo "Please specify a search term. Ex. ./aurget cairo"
  exit 0
fi

# search google for the AUR package
lynx -accept_all_cookies -dump -hiddenlinks=ignore -nonumbers -assume_charset="$CHARSET" -display_charset="$CHARSET" "http://www.google.com/search?hl=${LNG}&q=${1}+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Faur.archlinux.org%2F&btnG=Search" | grep AUR\ \(en\) > $WD/results
if [ ! -s $WD/results ]; then
  echo "Sorry, no appropriate results."
  exit 0
fi

# display the results
clear
echo ""
echo "Results found:"
echo ""
cat -b $WD/results | awk '{ print "  ", $1, "-", $6 }'
echo ""
echo "Please enter the number to download: (or q to quit)"
echo ""

# read which packages to DL
read NUM
if [ "$NUM" = "q" ]; then
  echo "   Quitting..."
  exit 0
fi

PACK=$(cat -b $WD/results | grep -P "$NUM\t" | awk '{ print $6 }')

# download the tarball
clear
echo ""
echo "Downloading $PACK to $WD..."
echo ""
wget -q -O $WD/$PACK.tar.gz http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$PACK/$PACK.tar.gz || exit 1

# extract the tarball
clear
echo ""
echo "   Tarball downloaded."
echo ""
echo "   Extract the files? (y/n)"
echo ""

read E
case $E in
  y)
  cd $WD && tar xvzf $PACK.tar.gz || exit 2
  ;;
  n)
  echo "   Quitting..."
  cp $WD/$PACK.tar.gz $SAFE/
  rm -r $WD
  exit 0
  ;;
  *)
  echo "   Invalid, quitting."
  rm -r $WD
  exit 5
  ;;
esac

# use makepkg to build the package
clear
echo ""
echo "   Files extracted."
echo ""
echo "   Build the package? (y/n)"
echo ""

read B
case $B in
  y)
  cd $WD/$PACK && makepkg -s || exit 3
  PACK=$(find $WD/$PACK -name '*pkg.tar.gz')
  ;;
  n)
  echo "   Quitting..."
  cp $WD/$PACK $SAFE/
  rm -r $WD
  exit 0
  ;;
  *)
  echo "   Invalid, quitting."
  rm -r $WD
  exit 5
  ;;
esac

# use pacman -U to install the package
clear
echo ""
echo "   Package built."
echo ""
echo "   Install the package? (y/n)"
echo ""

read I
case $I in
  y)
  sudo pacman -U $PACK || exit 4
  ;;
  n)
  echo "   Quitting..."
  cp $PACK $PD/
  rm -r $WD
  exit 0
  ;;
  *)
  echo "   Invalid, quitting..."
  rm -r $WD
  exit 5
  ;;
esac

# clean up the working directory, save the package if you want
clear
echo ""
echo "   Package was installed."
echo ""
echo "   Keep the Package? (y/n)"
echo ""

read K
case $K in
  y)
  cp $PACK $PD/
  rm -r $WD
  exit 0
  ;;
  n)
  echo "   Quitting..."
  rm -r $WD
  exit 0
  ;;
  *)
  echo "   Invalid, quitting..."
  rm -r $WD
  exit 5
  ;;
esac

# always clean up after yourself
[ -d $WD ] && rm -r $WD

exit 0

i know i could probably search AUR directly but i took the lynx line from another script and just kept it (added the site= term to keep it AUR specific)

Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-04-02 17:19:44)

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