wrapaur - A simple pacman and cower wrapper written in bash

whahn1983 · 2014-03-31 04:06:30

I wrote a simple bash script to help with some of the repetitive tasks of building AUR packages with cower, especially when many dependencies are involved. I also wanted to integrate some of the common pacman commands in the same program with cower. I've been using this script locally for some time now and thought I would upload it to the AUR and share it with the community. Feel free to leave comments/suggestions. I know there are a lot of options out there for building and installing AUR packages so I hope this adds a simple option for those who already enjoy cower and want to keep some control over AUR installs with some added convenience.

Usage: wrapaur [OPTION]... [PACKAGE]...
(for multiple packages pass option each time; e.g. -i package1 -i package2)
-a install from aur
-c clean pacman cache with pacman -Sc, optimize pacman database, and clear .wrapaur folder
-e check for updates from official repositories and aur and print available updates or email results if email is present in .wrapaurrc (add to cron or systemd timer to have email updates for new packages)
note: email must be properly configured on system
-i install from official repositories
-l list installed packages with package count
-m update pacman mirrorlist wth reflector (default options: top 200 http servers sorted by download rate)
-q query information on a specific package
-r remove a package with pacman -Rsn (for other removal options use pacman)
-s search official repositories and aur
-u update official repositories and aur

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wrapaur/
https://github.com/whahn1983/wrapaur

Last edited by whahn1983 (2014-05-03 15:57:03)

fredbezies · 2014-03-31 08:05:25

What's new with it ? Better than yaourt for example ?

jasonwryan · 2014-03-31 08:10:41

Could you please host the script on github or somewhere that it is possible to read it before downloading? And then include the link on the AUR page and here?

progandy · 2014-03-31 08:18:23

jasonwryan wrote:

Could you please host the script on github or somewhere that it is possible to read it before downloading? And then include the link on the AUR page and here?

For something this small you can also use gist (with a username, not anomymous)

whahn1983 · 2014-03-31 12:38:07

Sure. I'll try and get it posted somewhere tonight.

To answer the yaourt question, I wanted something more simple than yaourt that gave a little more control with the AUR packages, which is why I was using cower. After a while though going into each directory manually to makepkg gets old. So this script just helps out with that.

whahn1983 · 2014-03-31 18:07:39

I created a git page and posted the source. I will update the PKGBUILD later on to reflect the website.

https://github.com/whahn1983/wrapaur

whahn1983 · 2014-04-07 04:52:04

I just added a few more options. I added an option to use reflector to update the pacman mirror list and another to query installed packages. I'll update the first post to list all of the program options currently.

whahn1983 · 2014-05-02 13:30:55

So I don't know if anyone is following this program however, I wanted to announce some updates. I added an option to check for updates and print available updates or email the results. This could be set up cron for regular update notifications to email. I also added a config file to store the target email address and some options.

orschiro · 2014-06-21 08:59:22

@whahn1983

Thanks for wrapaur! What are the major differences in comparison to the widely used pacaur?

Trilby · 2014-06-21 11:19:15

Holy case statement batman!

From lines 226 to 447, all that entire block of code does can be substituted with `country=$opt`. And even that is not likely needed, just use $opt where you needed $country.

whahn1983 · 2014-06-22 01:43:39

I recently added that code to provide a convenient selection menu since there are limited country choices. That way the user does not have to go run a reflector command, find the appropriate country, then go use that as an input to my program.

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