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Mikos

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From: Prague, Czech Republic

Registered: 2005-05-03

Posts: 228

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NEW PACKAGE: autoaur

I have made autoaur script for automatic mass downloading, updating, building and installing groups of AUR packages. This is for example useful for building (and frequent updating and rebuilding) Xgl, Compiz and all related stuff from AUR (this was original reason for making autoaur).

Simply download configuration file for autoaur (e.g. this configuration file for Xgl & Compiz: xgl.autoaur), create directory where you want all things to be downloaded and builded, go to this directory and run:

autoaur /path/to/xgl.autoaur

Autoaur is highly configurable, this is what help sais:

Usage: autoaur [options] [config file]

Options:
  --spackages PACKAGES Install these packages from repositories
  --packages PACKAGES  Install these packages from AUR
  --nosync             Do not install packages from repositories
  --nodownload         Do not download packages from AUR
  --noremovebuilddir   Do not remove *-build subdirectories in src directory
  --nobuild            Do not build packages from AUR
                       (it doesn't apply to versionpkg)
  --noinstall          Do not install packages from AUR
  --noupdate           Do not update package versions
  --updatever VERSION  Update all packages to some particular version
                       (it doesn't apply to versionpkg)
  --remove             Remove conflicting packages (without dependency check)
  --clean              Clean package directories before new installation
                       (old source code will be deleted)
  --nocolor            Disable colorized output messages
  --confighelp         Help with configuration files
  -h, --help           Basic help

You can get autoaur from AUR here or you can download autoaur directly here: autoaur-1.0.0.tar.gz

pbw

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From: Barrie ON, Canada

Registered: 2005-06-01

Posts: 65

Re: NEW PACKAGE: autoaur

Awesome mikos, thanks for the tool.