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#1 2016-12-08 09:33:38

nyquists
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Registered: 2016-12-08
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Updating packer

Hello! I am worried packer is not updated as it should, but I cant seem to find out if it is. I hope someone might be able to guide me through this:

No command to show packer version? Why is there no "packer --version"?

Is it possible to add packer to packer, so that it is updated by itself? If I search for it by "packer packer", it is not listed as installed.

Thanks!

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#2 2016-12-08 09:51:24

HiImTye
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Re: Updating packer

pacman -Qi <package>

will spit out a version number (and other useful information). if packer checks for AUR updates, then presumably it will also check for self AUR updates
you can also just

pacman -Q

for just the version number

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#3 2016-12-08 10:19:16

nyquists
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Re: Updating packer

Thanks! So packer is tracked by pacman? Did I do this, or is it automatically done?

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#4 2016-12-08 10:32:46

WorMzy
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Re: Updating packer

How did you install packer in the first place?

Mod note; moving to AUR issues


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#5 2016-12-08 12:47:15

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Re: Updating packer

Pacman is the arch linux package manager.  It tracks *all* packages that are installed using supported tools.  Packer is really just* a wrapper for one of those supported tools (makepkg).  If you don't know how to use pacman and makepkg, please stop everything else now and learn to use them.

*EDIT: "just" might be a bit misleading here.  Packer certainly does more than makepkg will including searching the aur.  But any package building and installing is handed off to makepkg and pacman.


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#6 2016-12-10 10:55:59

Spyhawk
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Re: Updating packer

The package "packer" actually is a VCS package. Despite guidelines, it doesn't use "packer-git" as name. The only way to update it is to reinstall it (with packer -S packer, or manually). Also note that this helper is barely maintained anymore.

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