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jadbox

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Registered: 2026-03-30

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llama.cpp-cuda package long out of date

The problem is every time I update with Paru I have to rebuild llama.cpp-cuda-git as the binary package [llama.cpp-cuda] has been out of date since December.

$ paru -Ss llama.cpp | grep -e "cuda"
llama.cpp-cuda b7376-1 [+15 ~1.23] [Out-of-date: 2025-12-22]

The newest version can be found in GIT as aur/llama.cpp-cuda-git (b7876).

Is this normal? Why are the binaries so behind?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,853

Re: llama.cpp-cuda package long out of date

I do not know why https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/llama.cpp-cuda is not being updated but it is not a binary package. You can update it to the most recent tag and build it locally. I suspect the root cause is how paru handles packages with a -git suffix vs none suffixed packages does not match your expectations.

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,446

Re: llama.cpp-cuda package long out of date

I think upstream doesn't really follow a "release" policy and pushes a new release "archive" every 3-4 hours, which would be pretty much impossible to follow with the "llama.cpp-cuda" package. You might be better off switching to llama.cpp-cuda-git entirely.

jadbox

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Registered: 2026-03-30

Posts: 2

Re: llama.cpp-cuda package long out of date

It still feels like there 'should' be a daily/weekly pre-built bin for llama.cpp-cuda available. On my small laptop, it takes almost 8-10 minutes to compile it from source on every update.