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nicoulaj

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From: France

Registered: 2011-10-10

Posts: 34

AUR helper with download/build only option ?

Hi,

Currently I have a cron job that does this:

pacman -Syuw --noconfirm

This downloads all packages and put it in the cache in the background, this way when a run an upgrade I just have to validate.

I would like to have the same for AUR packages. Is anyone aware of a AUR helper with a "download+build" only option ?

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clfarron4

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 2,175

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Re: AUR helper with download/build only option ?

It looks like some of the AUR helpers might be able to do it, since a couple appear to have a build-only flag.

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: AUR helper with download/build only option ?

for pkg in $(pacman -Qqm); do
   cower -d $pkg && cd /your/builddir/$pkg && makepkg
done

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TE

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Registered: 2014-06-21

Posts: 85

Re: AUR helper with download/build only option ?

pacaur (which uses cower) supports a -d flag to download only, and a -m flag to download and build. The -d flag will pull down dependencies. I'm quite happy with pacaur+cower as a day to day solution, $0.02.

EDIT: sorry I meant the -m flag pulls down deps -- to do it with the -d flag you have to specify it twice. </bourbon>

Last edited by TE (2014-12-13 00:53:36)