Manage AUR updates via pacman?

zen · 2009-09-04 04:11:17

Ok, so there's a program I want, thats in the AUR.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29499 (thats the app)

And after doing some reading this time, I installed base-devel via pacman, then I stopped, because since this is a nightly build, I would want to automate this process as much as possible.

So, in short... since after the package is compiled, it looks like it's install in this example (pacman -U foo-0.1-i686.pkg.tar.gz ) by using pacman.

Is it possible once installed, then. that when I perform a pacman -Syu, it will check that package for a new version in the AUR?

If that's not possible with the software, is it possible to make a script that will automatically download the new tarball, compile, and upgrade the version via pacman? I'm not very good at scripts yet..

Thanks!

Allan · 2009-09-04 04:13:26

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers

Xyne · 2009-09-04 04:14:29

See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers
and http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=14865

Take a look at yaourt in particular.

zen · 2009-09-04 04:57:34

I'll give that a try. I had read through those in the wiki but they all seemed to be able to automate the build system, I didn't see one that would tie updates of the AUR's into the pacman -Syu command. I'll give yaourt a try first and see if that does what I'm looking for.

Thanks again! (and sorry for all the questions, first day with arch, lol)

guzz46 · 2009-09-04 05:00:17

yaourt -Syu --aur

is what i use

zen · 2009-09-04 05:54:28

Thats exactly what I wanted! Thanks so much everyone. I'm so impressed with the way archlinux is setup and it's ease of upkeep compared to other distros, this will be the last distro I'll switch to as long as it's maintained. For sure.

djszapi · 2009-09-04 19:15:33

Hello zen!

Great to hear, you can change the topic as 'Solved' like others

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Manage AUR updates via pacman?

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