packer - New bash aur+pacman wrapper (replaces poorly written yaourt)

orschiro · 2011-09-26 22:27:25

karol wrote:

I think java-runtime is / was a virtual package of sorts.
jre6 provides java-runtime=6 which conflicts with java-runtime.
jre7 provides java-runtime=7 which conflicts with java-runtime.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50317 provides both 'java-runtime' and 'java-environment'.

But why is packer then listing a package although it is not existing?

Another example:

[robert@thinkpad ~]$ packer -S jumanji

Aur Targets    (1): jumanji

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/usr/bin/packer: line 271: cd: jumanji: No such file or directory
No PKGBUILD found in directory.

packer finds a target 'jumanji' although it is not existing in the AUR.

Regads

Last edited by orschiro (2011-09-26 22:28:02)

falconindy · 2011-09-27 00:33:51

Something tells me you found a bug

$ ./packer -S 'this isnt a real package'

Aur Targets    (1): this isnt a real package

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

Looks like packer is trying to match the exact string "No result found" which no longer exists... its now "No results found" which appears to have been changed here (with the release of 1.9.0 on 8/20).

Sure enough, that one change on line 96 of git master makes things work...

$ ./packer -S jumanji
Package `jumanji' does not exist.

Though there must be a better way to do this given that packer relies on jshon...

Last edited by falconindy (2011-09-27 00:34:27)

keenerd · 2011-09-27 03:04:11

Derp, yeah. I never rewrote that part to use Jshon, because I did not want to begin to try to cover all the ways the AUR flake out.

So line 96, currently

! grep -Fq ':"No result found"' "$tmpdir/$1.info"

should probably be

[[ "$(jshon -Qe type -u < "$tmpdir/$1.info")" = "info" ]]

This should be flexible enough to cover anything short of a complete overhaul of the AUR :-)

Last edited by keenerd (2011-09-27 03:06:01)

orschiro · 2011-09-27 07:26:23

Good to hear you can easily resolve this bug.

Cheers

Zucca · 2011-11-03 09:00:20

Hi. Does packer do automatic package building from ABS?

luizdeh · 2011-11-10 02:04:11

Nice work, packer has worked a lot better than yaourt. Faster, leaner and just plain did a better job.

nawitus · 2011-11-12 21:09:19

I did "packer -Syu", but it doesn't update anything in AUR. linux-ck is 3.0.7-1 in my system, but https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50911 tells that linux-ck is 3.1.1-1. My point is, why doesn't it update to the latest version of the linux-ck package?

tri1976 · 2011-11-13 03:09:49

I can't get packer to use nano as editor (it kept using vi) and wondering if anyone can give me some pointers. I understand this issue had been mention before on p12-13 and nothing work for me except symlink nano to vi (which seem pretty extreme to me). "echo $EDITOR" gives "nano" as both user and root.

NOOBZILLATRON · 2011-11-13 04:52:32

tri1976 wrote:

I can't get packer to use nano as editor (it kept using vi) and wondering if anyone can give me some pointers. I understand this issue had been mention before on p12-13 and nothing work for me except symlink nano to vi (which seem pretty extreme to me). "echo $EDITOR" gives "nano" as both user and root.

Handy vim tutorial http://www.openvim.com/tutorial.html

handy · 2011-11-13 08:54:24

tri1976 wrote:

I can't get packer to use nano as editor (it kept using vi) and wondering if anyone can give me some pointers. I understand this issue had been mention before on p12-13 and nothing work for me except symlink nano to vi (which seem pretty extreme to me). "echo $EDITOR" gives "nano" as both user and root.

Packer uses the EDITOR variable:

https://github.com/bruenig/packer/wiki

Use one of the methods here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Na … _with_nano

If that doesn't work you have another problem.

tri1976 · 2011-11-13 15:42:36

@handy "export EDITOR=nano" is in .bashrc. When I do "echo $EDITOR", it returns "nano". So EDITOR variable is set, but packer refuses to use is for some reason.
@NOOBZILLATRON I do have some basic knowledge of using vi, but I'm much more comfortable with nano. I just don't see why it can't use an editor of your choice

Last edited by tri1976 (2011-11-13 16:02:55)

handy · 2011-11-13 22:44:15

Try setting the EDITOR variable in a file you make located in /etc/profile.d & ~/.bash_profile

The previously supplied link gives instructions for what you can use in ~/.bash_profile

If it still doesn't work then perhaps you have uncovered a bug, though, it would seem that you are the only one with it, which tends to make it look like there is something different going on on your system.

Last edited by handy (2011-11-13 22:46:12)

handy · 2011-11-13 22:46:24

Try setting the EDITOR variable in a file you make located in /etc/profile.d & ~/.bash_profile

The previously supplied link gives instructions for what you can use in ~/.bash_profile

tri1976 · 2011-11-14 01:02:40

I'm sure it's not a problem with setting $EDITOR variable. In terminal, I execute $EDITOR and nano open. I use $EDITOR in a script and nano open. For some reason packer could not use it.

tri1976 · 2011-11-14 01:16:27

I uninstall vi and then packer uses nano. I re-install vi and it still uses nano. I have no idea what happen, but it appears to be fixed. One suggestion though, the line where packer asks whether or not to edit PKGBUILD, replace "\$EDITOR" with "$EDITOR", so that user will know what packer will use as editor.

DasFox · 2011-11-16 07:37:52

I run packer -Syu --auronly but it won't update the pkgs I installed from AUR and there are newer versions.

How can I fix it?

THANKS

luizdeh · 2011-11-16 13:13:20

Had the same problem as DasFox last time I tried updating.

'packer -Suy --auronly' gave me nothing, while 'packer -Suy' and 'pacman -Suy' did the exact same thing.

stryder · 2011-11-16 14:42:00

If you haven't reinstalled packer for quite a while, try reinstalling it deliberately. packer -S packer.

luizdeh · 2011-11-16 15:01:28

I installed packer last week. Nevertheless, i'll give it a shot.

Last edited by luizdeh (2011-11-16 15:01:41)

DasFox · 2011-11-21 02:04:27

YEAH packer -S packer did it...

Seems like we need to constantly reinstall this thing, I hope we can get a fix for this...

THANKS

mhertz · 2011-11-21 02:57:56

You can just use --devel when upgrading, which will reinstall packer no matter if it needs it or not however...

chneukirchen · 2012-01-17 12:35:41

When I run pacman 4.0.1 with signatures turned on, pacman called by packer fails to retrieve the key if I run packer as a user:

% packer -S lftp
error: lftp: key "94657AB20F2A092B" is unknown
:: Import PGP key 0F2A092B, "Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>", created 2011-05-14? [Y/n] y
error: key "Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>" could not be imported
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature))
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

With sudo packer it works:

% packer -S lftp
error: lftp: key "94657AB20F2A092B" is unknown
:: Import PGP key 0F2A092B, "Andreas Radke <andyrtr@archlinux.org>", created 2011-05-14? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity [######################] 100%

emphire · 2012-01-18 18:25:19

I just tried out packer and it looks great. One issue I ran into: It seems to have problems when $EDITOR is set to a value with a space in it. (Mine is EDITOR="emacs -nw").

keenerd · 2012-01-18 19:55:28

I just tried EDITOR="vim -b" and it worked fine. The only place where $EDITOR is called is on line 253,

${EDITOR:-vi} "$2"

which seems too simple to fail in the manner you've described.

Give more error messages.

emphire · 2012-01-18 20:20:12

Sure,

packer pacman-color
  
0 aur/pacman-color 4.0.1-1 (1895)
    A color patched command-line frontend for libalpm (Pacman)
1 aur/pacman-color-testing 4.0.1-1 (71)
    A color patched command-line frontend for libalpm (Pacman) - prefers [testing]

Type numbers to install. Separate each number with a space.
Numbers: 0

Aur Targets    (1): pacman-color

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y

Edit pacman-color PKGBUILD with $EDITOR? [Y/n] Y

/usr/bin/packer: line 252: emacs -nw: command not found
==> Making package: pacman-color 4.0.1-1 (Wed Jan 18 12:16:14 PST 2012)

Perhaps it's the permissions on emacs?

$ ls -l `which emacs`
-rwxr-xr-t 2 root root 11M Jan  5 05:02 /usr/bin/emacs*

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Re: packer - New bash aur+pacman wrapper (replaces poorly written yaourt)

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