Error when installing repo packages

LepreChAUnS · 2023-12-11 04:29:25

 [luke@archlinux ~]$ yay -s i3-gaps
7 aur/regolith-i3 1.6-19 (+5 0.00)
    Regolith's i3-gaps-based DE's underpinnings and gnome foundational dependencies
6 aur/i3-gaps-cameronleger-git 4.15.0.1.r607.gaddf48ed-1 (+0 0.00) (Out-of-date: 2021-03-14)
    A fork of i3-gaps with issue #22 fix (outer gaps cause weird tiling)
5 aur/i3-gaps-fullscreen-next-git 4.19.1.r177.g4ea30ca9-2 (+1 0.00)
    A fork of a fork of i3wm tiling window manager, with multi-monitor fullscreen workaround for VMWare, mpv, etc.
4 aur/i3-gaps-desktop 4.20.1-1 (+0 0.00)
    A fork of i3-gaps with desktop manager support
3 aur/i3-gaps-kde-git 4.20.1-1 (+1 0.00)
    A fork of i3wm tiling window manager with more features, including gaps (with KDE patches)
2 aur/i3-gaps-rounded-git 4.20.1.r84.g8e5eed5b-1 (+17 0.11)
    A fork of i3wm tiling window manager with more features, including gaps and rounded corners
1 extra/i3-wm 4.23-1 (1.0 MiB 2.4 MiB) [i3] (Installed)
    Improved dynamic tiling window manager
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 2
AUR Explicit (1): i3-gaps-rounded-git-4.20.1.r84.g8e5eed5b-1
Sync Make Dependency (3): asciidoc-10.2.0-4, xmlto-0.0.28-4, meson-1.3.0-1
:: PKGBUILD up to date, skipping download: i3-gaps-rounded-git
  1 i3-gaps-rounded-git                      (Build Files Exist)
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> i
  1 i3-gaps-rounded-git                      (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> i
==> Making package: i3-gaps-rounded-git 4.20.1.r84.g8e5eed5b-1 (Sun 10 Dec 2023 08:23:07 PM PST)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating i3-gaps-round git repo...
==> WARNING: Skipping verification of source file PGP signatures.
==> Validating source files with sha1sums...
    i3-gaps-round ... Skipped
:: Remove make dependencies after install? [y/N]
:: (1/1) Parsing SRCINFO: i3-gaps-rounded-git
 -> Failed to install layer, rolling up to next layer.error:error installing repo packages
 -> error installing repo packages
error installing repo packages

Get this error for most of the time when installing aur packages.

Scimmia · 2023-12-11 05:03:08

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

Forget yay, see what happens.

LepreChAUnS · 2023-12-13 22:43:50

Im confused, can you elaborate more please? Thanks for the help <3

Last edited by LepreChAUnS (2023-12-13 22:44:46)

loqs · 2023-12-13 23:55:15

Please see the warning from the top of AUR_helpers. You are being asked if you can reproduce the issue without using the AUR helper yay.

Stefan Husmann · 2023-12-14 19:37:06

Well, yay's error message is misleading. It says "error installing repo packages" but what in fact fails is the built of a non repo package. As the other already said, try to build the failing packages without yay but with plain makepkg.

To get an update for

asciidoc-10.2.0-4, xmlto-0.0.28-4, meson-1.3.0-1

you could also try to run a simple pacman -Suy instead of yay.

seth · 2023-12-14 20:43:27

https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/2241

The takeaway is that AUR helpers get in your way more than anything else - don't use them, at least not the ones that try to wrap pacman.
Stuff like auracle or aurutils is typically fine.

Undead · 2024-02-02 23:56:48

Well, my personal takeaway from this is: You types '-s' instead of '-S'.
And so did i when searching for this error message.

I do feel like this should happen frequently enough for people to know this on here but I mean I just joined to say this so how would I know.
And correct me if I'm wrong obviously but at least for me this was the only issue.

seth · 2024-02-03 00:53:29

The issue is

The yay bug wrote:

yay -s gets translated to yay -Ys which is not a valid yay operation.

that yay happily accepts a bogus parameter and continues to do … something?

I do feel like this should happen frequently enough

Searching google, there're a couple of threads in 2022 (unrelated to the error at hand, might have been local typos)
But usually people know the difference between capitals and minuscules, so no - not "frequently".
How does one even come up with that? Did you copypaste it from somewhere?

Trilby · 2024-05-13 17:59:35

That issue response *must* be a miscommunication: software "translating" a user-provided flag into another flag that is invalid is clearly absurd. Closing the issue as this being "expected behavior" is far more absurd. Certainly I expect yay to do stupid things, but if it's maintainer even expects it to do stupid things then even my "less political" assessment was far too kind.

EDIT: oops - I posted this in the wrong thread - but it is relevant here anyways.

Last edited by Trilby (2024-05-13 18:01:42)

SilverNO3 · 2024-08-21 05:13:02

Welp, this thread was informative to me. With "Y/n" not being case-sensitive I got lax on yay -S and used "-s". Thank you everybody's help.

Kinda wished "-s" either worked or threw a command error instead of pretending to work and prompting until the very end.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-08-21 10:44:11

Kinda wished "-s" either worked or threw a command error instead of pretending to work and prompting until the very end.

Try asking yay devs

Closing this old thread.

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#1 2023-12-11 04:29:25

Error when installing repo packages

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Re: Error when installing repo packages

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