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timofonic

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yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

Hello.

I'm using Archlinux and the system works flawessly. Sadly, there's a problem when trying to install AUR packages.

The following happens installing any AUR package I tried lately.

==>  Continue installing wicked-git? [Y/n]
==>  [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==>   ----------------------------------------------
==>y

loading package data...
error: './wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz': cannot open package file
==> WARNING: Your package is saved in /tmp/yaourt-tmp-timofonic/wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
cp: cannot stat `./wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz': No such file or directory
==> WARNING: Unable to copy wicked-git-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz to /tmp/yaourt-tmp-timofonic/ directory

Any idea about how to fix it? I tried using both an user with sudo and root, same problem.

Regards.

Last edited by timofonic (2009-07-14 19:52:53)

timofonic

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

I did the following and still happens...
pacman -Sf $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)")

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lilsirecho

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

Perhaps the method to use is given by the man pacman files.

pacman -U (.pkg.tar.gz package ID found in the directory generating the package)

For example:  ...pacman -U /var/local/kernel26-2.6.30-5-x86-64.pkg.tar.gz......since the pkg generated is in that directory for this theoretical case.

Any locally generated package is loaded with ...pacman -U....

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timofonic

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

Perhaps the method to use is given by the man pacman files.

pacman -U (.pkg.tar.gz package ID found in the directory generating the package)

For example:  ...pacman -U /var/local/kernel26-2.6.30-5-x86-64.pkg.tar.gz......since the pkg generated is in that directory for this theoretical case.

Any locally generated package is loaded with ...pacman -U....

What do you mean? The package doesn't exist, I double checked it.

Maybe I need to check where yaourt writes it. Any suggestion about what util to use for that?

EDIT: I used "lsof" command and found the file is there, but yaourt can't locate it and deletes the directory after

$ ls /tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/w*

/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/wicked-git-20090708-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/wicked-git-20090709-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Please, could anyone help me to solve this problem?

Last edited by timofonic (2009-07-09 22:08:47)

tdy

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

EDIT: I used "lsof" command and found the file is there, but yaourt can't locate it and deletes the directory after

$ ls /tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/w*

/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/wicked-git-20090708-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
/tmp/yaourt-tmp-root/aur-wicked-git/wicked-git/wicked-git-20090709-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

Please, could anyone help me to solve this problem?

yaourt has been bugged like this with vcs packages for a while.  It's a result of makepkg automatically fetching the latest snapshot.

When you started installing that package, yaourt tracked the initial $pkgver as 20090112.  After makepkg fetched the latest snapshot (and updated the $pkgver to reflect it) and finished building, the $pkgver became 20090708.  yaourt doesn't take this into account and still tries to install wicked-git-20090112-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz, which can't be found because the correct file is supposed to be wicked-git-20090708-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz.

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Allan

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

As tdy said, yaourt is not very good for svn/cvs/git/etc type packages.  You are better using the primary tools, makepkg and pacman.

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kfgz

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

Timofonic, when you installing git package via yaourt you must edit PKGBUILD and change pkgver to current date.

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

Yeah, but the future will be aurbuild or other stuffs maybe.

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timofonic

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Re: yaourt: Problems installing generated AUR packages [SOLVED]

Timofonic, when you installing git package via yaourt you must edit PKGBUILD and change pkgver to current date.

OK, you are right. Thanks.

Any way to automate that proccess?