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FernandoBasso

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[SOLVED] Cannot get aurutils working by follwoing man page

I'm following the instructions from `man aur':

Pacman configuration
    For  the purposes of this example, we assume the local repository custom
    is located in /home/custompkgs.

    Append a section for the local repository to /etc/pacman.conf

        [custom]
        SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
        Server = file:///home/custompkgs

    Create the repository root and database:

        $ sudo install -d /home/custompkgs -o $USER
        $ repo-add /home/custompkgs/custom.db.tar.gz

    If built packages are available, add them to the database:

        $ cd /home/custompkgs
        $ repo-add -n custom.db.tar.gz *.pkg.tar*

    Synchronize pacman:

        $ sudo pacman -Syu

This is the relevant excerpt from my /etc/pacman.conf:

[aurpkgs]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = file:///home/deveng/local/aurpkgs

And this is my shell session:

$ pwd
/home/deveng/local/aurpkgs

$ ls -1a
./
../
aurutils/
aurutils-20.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
aurutils.tar.gz

$ sudo install -d /home/deveng/local/aurpkgs -o $USER

$ repo-add /home/deveng/local/aurpkgs/pkgs.db.tar.gz
==> Creating updated database file '/home/deveng/local/aurpkgs/pkgs.db.tar.gz'
==> WARNING: No packages remain, creating empty database.
==> WARNING: No packages remain, creating empty database.

$ repo-add -n pkgs.db.tar.gz aurutils-20.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst 
==> Extracting pkgs.db.tar.gz to a temporary location...
==> Extracting pkgs.files.tar.gz to a temporary location...
==> Adding package 'aurutils-20.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst'
  -> Computing checksums...
  -> Creating 'desc' db entry...
  -> Creating 'files' db entry...
==> Creating updated database file 'pkgs.db.tar.gz'

$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 pkgs.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'pkgs.db' from disk : Couldn't open file /home/deveng/local/aurpkgs/pkgs.db
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)

$ ls -la
total 184
drwxr-xr-x 3 deveng alpm    20480 Oct 24 11:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 deveng deveng   4096 Oct  2 09:11 ../
drwxr-xr-x 4 deveng alpm     4096 Oct 24 09:27 aurutils/
-rw-r--r-- 1 deveng alpm   119742 Oct 24 09:22 aurutils-20.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
-rw-r--r-- 1 deveng alpm    13228 Oct 24 09:22 aurutils.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 deveng deveng     14 Oct 24 11:06 pkgs.db -> pkgs.db.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 deveng deveng    592 Oct 24 11:06 pkgs.db.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 deveng deveng     45 Oct 24 11:06 pkgs.db.tar.gz.old
lrwxrwxrwx 1 deveng deveng     17 Oct 24 11:06 pkgs.files -> pkgs.files.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 deveng deveng   1072 Oct 24 11:06 pkgs.files.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 deveng deveng     45 Oct 24 11:06 pkgs.files.tar.gz.old

My guess is that I am misunderstanding something or missing some other detail. I would appreciate any ideas or guidance.

Last edited by FernandoBasso (2024-10-25 09:09:33)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get aurutils working by follwoing man page

You'll need to configure the repo appropriately for pacman v7 compat and I strongly suggest you don't pick a home dir base path for this: https://archlinux.org/news/manual-inter … -required/

FernandoBasso

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Registered: 2010-10-27

Posts: 101

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get aurutils working by follwoing man page

You'll need to configure the repo appropriately for pacman v7 compat and I strongly suggest you don't pick a home dir base path for this: https://archlinux.org/news/manual-inter … -required/

I read that piece news about pacman v7 when it camem out, but at the time my other machine did not present any problems and I was able to continue using aur normally with a local repository in $HOME/local/aurpkgs.

I now realize it was still working because I did not merge the .pacnew file with /etc/pacman.conf. And since I did a fresh install on a new machine, /etc/pacman.conf contains the new configs, thus causing the behavior I described.

I simply moved the local repository to /opt/aurpkgs and it worked, and it also worked when I tried with /home/aurpkgs.

Thank you.

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accy

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Registered: 2019-12-23

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get aurutils working by follwoing man page

Hello, I'm having the same problem, but chowning the directory and its files didn't help.

I get this output and also included a sanity check to ensure the db file exists:

[ocha@chamise custompkgs]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 custom.db failed to download
error: failed retrieving file 'custom.db' from disk : Couldn't open file /home/ocha/bin/custompkgs/custom.db
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)
[ocha@chamise custompkgs]$ pwd
/home/ocha/bin/custompkgs
[ocha@chamise custompkgs]$ ls
aurutils-20.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst  custom.db  custom.db.tar.gz  custom.db.tar.gz.old  custom.files  custom.files.tar.gz  custom.files.tar.gz.old

I don't seem to have any pacnew files to merge:

$ grep '\.pacnew\|\.pacsave' /var/log/pacman.log
$

Pacman v7.0.0 - libalpm v15.0.0

Last edited by accy (2024-11-24 22:20:49)

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot get aurutils working by follwoing man page

If the linked news article doesn't answer your questions, please open a new topic about your issue.

Closing this old, solved topic.

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