Bauerbill: Powerpill + ABS, AUR, CPAN and Hackage support + more

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-12 19:09:28

What I proposed should do it, I dont know what the problem is.

Kiwi · 2010-04-12 20:07:14

-Qm shows 'foreign' packages, which are most likely from AUR. If that shows nothing, is it possible you actually do not have anything installed from AUR?

MindTooth · 2010-04-13 08:57:14

That worked like a charm Thank you both...

Ed1t: Added it to a new Bauerbill page on the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bauerbill

Last edited by MindTooth (2010-04-13 09:00:25)

Xyne · 2010-04-13 09:23:11

Sorry, I haven't checked the forum in a while. I must have checked the thread when I received a notification for norswap's post but I didn't log in so I haven't received any other notifications since then.

@pogeymanz & gogi-goji
I don't know why the download fails but it seems to be a problem with aria2c. Saving the metalink and running aria2c directly results in an empty file and leftover .aria2 file. Passing aria2c the URL by itself does the same, but adding the '-s 1" option results in a successful download, even though the metalink specifies a single connection.

I would recommend reporting the issue upstream to the aria2 dev. In the meantime, just ignore the failed download and continue with the installation. The patch should get downloaded by makepkg at the build step.

@jowilkin
That information isn't included in the data returned by the AUR's JSON interface. Until the PKGBUILD has been downloaded, there is no way to know (programmatically) whether the package is available for the given architecture.

I've added an extra check after the PKGBUILD is parsed to display a warning and skip packages which can't be built. That should prevent pointless downloads.

@Runiq
It should invoke pacman with "--config" now. Let me know if it works.

@smradlev
The memory problem never went away. It's an intrinsic problem with the way Perl handles threads (duplication of all data stored in memory per thread). I have a solution but I don't have the time to implement it right now.

@MindTooth
"bauerbill -Qm" and "pacman -Qm" will show all installed foreign packages (packages which are not available in any repo). SanskritFritz's suggestion doesn't work because the AUR search interface requires at least a 2-character search string, i.e. you can't list all AUR packages with a single search.

The following works though:

bauerbill -Ss --aur $(pacman -Qm) | grep 'AUR/' | grep installed

You can replace "pacman" with "bauerbill" but there is no reason to do so.

MindTooth · 2010-04-13 14:15:41

Thank you for the clarification, Xyne I hope I didn't screw up your wiki page (since to removed so much )...

jcci · 2010-04-14 13:59:19

Wonderful!!!

bfo · 2010-04-15 20:09:29

Is there a way to prevent bauerbill from overwriting PKGBUILD for packages from AUR? I'll explain: say I want to update kadu-git, while the directory structure already exists (*/build/aur/kadu-git/). I change the command in PKGBUILD from "git clone ${_gitroot} -b 0.6.5.x" to "git clone ${_gitroot} -b master" manually and save the file afterwards. When I want to update the package by issuing

# bauerbill -S kadu-git

PKGBUILD is overwritten and "-b master" becomes "-b 0.6.5.x" again as it is in AUR. I hope I explained everything sufficiently.

Xyne · 2010-04-16 06:03:14

@bfo
Use the PatchDir option. When you get to the PKGBUILD prompt, do the following:

* back up the original
* edit the PKGBUILD
* diff the PKGBUILD

The next time you update the package, you will be able to patch it from the prompt. You can even add the package to the Autopatch list in the config file so that you don't have to think about it.

Does that do what you want?

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SanskritFritz · 2010-04-16 07:23:37

This is... I'm speachless, bauerbill is the best, really. Thank you Xyne, great work!

bfo · 2010-04-16 15:29:08

Xyne wrote:

(snip)
Does that do what you want?

Yes, that's exactly what I want. Thanks a lot.

Runiq · 2010-04-16 19:09:28

Xyne wrote:

@Runiq
It should invoke pacman with "--config" now. Let me know if it works.

Yep, it works now. Thank you, Xyne!

MindTooth · 2010-04-20 12:23:30

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bauerbill

Someone care to maybe explain a bit more about the new commands added?

Ed1t: One feature I missed right now, is that Bauerbill could rebuild every AUR package from source. Since a lot of the packages are git based. Or can this be achieved from a command?

Last edited by MindTooth (2010-04-20 12:31:04)

Xyne · 2010-04-20 13:02:23

I've removed those aliases because they were too system-specific and lacked meaningful descriptions. Adding aliases to the wiki page is a bad idea too because we may end up with a page full of overlapping aliases that casual users may unwittingly use. Command examples with descriptions are fine, but aliases should be avoided.

Explicit developmental packages can be rebuilt with '--devel", e.g. "bauerbill -S --aur --devel". For non-explicit package I would just create a simple list and then run "bauerbill -S --aur $(cat /path/to/list)". There's no reason to rebuild all AUR packages just to update some.

Last edited by Xyne (2010-04-20 13:02:42)

flamelab · 2010-04-20 13:06:08

Question: is it possible that the core/extra/community etc databases (core.db.tar.gz etc) are downloaded simultaneously ?

MindTooth · 2010-04-20 13:11:18

Thanks for the clarification

Ed1t: Added a bit more under usage. No commands though.

Last edited by MindTooth (2010-04-20 13:17:40)

Xyne · 2010-04-20 14:08:52

@flamelab
They are downloaded simultaneously when using the "Rebase" option. If you don't use that option then the download is handled by Pacman.

ngoonee · 2010-04-21 01:37:08

Xyne wrote:

@flamelab
They are downloaded simultaneously when using the "Rebase" option. If you don't use that option then the download is handled by Pacman.

Installing rebase and uncommenting 'rebase' in bauerbill.conf just gives me permission denied errors, do I then have to run bauerbill as root?

Not a security issue (for me), your packages get plenty of root priviledges already. Just a laziness (I have to type sudo AGAIN?) issue.

Xyne · 2010-04-21 03:01:27

Yes, Rebase requires write permissions to the database.

Zeist · 2010-04-22 11:29:38

Found something kind of weird, upgrading moc-devel through bauerbill fails at downloading... but running makepkg with the PKGBUILD downloads it just fine.

ngoonee · 2010-04-22 13:23:52

Xyne wrote:

Yes, Rebase requires write permissions to the database.

Possible for it to call sudo? Though I think I remember reading in this thread before that its too troublesome.

Xyne · 2010-04-22 18:02:28

@Zeist
Please read the info page. This has been covered there and several times in this thread. It's a limitation of the PKGBUILD parser. Just ignore the download error and let makepkg handle the download if you don't want to fix it at the PKGBUILD prompt.

@ngoonee
Yeah, that has been discussed before too. Rebase is an internal module, not an external application, so the only way to invoke it with sudo would be for bauerbill to call itself with sudo, which is equivalent to guessing what the user wanted.

ngoonee · 2010-04-22 22:30:00

@Xyne, I guess that makes sense. In these 2 days, I've twice run 'sudo bauerbill -Syu --aur' with Rebase enabled to show 'no updates', then immediately followed with 'sudo rebase' and 'bauerbill -Syu --aur' with Rebase disabled to find I had one or two packages updated. Any way to check out whether rebase is actually running?

Xyne · 2010-04-22 23:11:36

Create an empty directory then run "bauerbill -b /path/to/empty/directory -Sy". If you find database files in the directory afterwards, then it works.

ngoonee · 2010-04-22 23:22:06

Ah, that shows the problem.

$ ls ~/temp/testbauerbill/sync
xyne-any

Its only syncing one repo. However when I do

$ rebase -b ~/temp/testbauerbill

I get all the dbs.

$ ls ~/temp/testbauerbill/sync
community  community-testing  core  extra  testing  xyne-any

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Xyne · 2010-04-22 23:54:35

Are you getting errors? It's the same code so if one works then so should the other.

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