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Registered: 2010-02-05

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[SOLVED] Unrelated Issue - AUR PKGBUILD updated, but not 'pkg'.tar.gz

Hi all,

I noticed that qbzr had become unmaintained and in fact wouldn't install via the AUR PKGBUILD file as the source download link had become obsolete.

I took ownership of the package, then downloaded, updated, targz'd and submitted the new archive. However, it still doesn't seem to be quite right.

If I download the PKGBUILD , I can now makepkg and then pacman -U without trouble. (v0.18)

However, using yaourt - yaourt gets the version info etc from the PKGBUILD file I think, as it displays the intended version correctly (0.18). However it then downloads qbzr.tzr.gz, within which is the PKGBUILD file of version (0.16).

I feel I must have missed something, but I can't figure out how when I submitted qbzr.tar.gz AUR was able to correctly extract the PKGBUILD file for display but not provide the correct qbzr.tar.gz

Perhaps there is a lag in file propagation that I have been previously unaware of?

Cheers

Last edited by thread (2010-02-08 03:28:35)

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Re: [SOLVED] Unrelated Issue - AUR PKGBUILD updated, but not 'pkg'.tar.gz

(On a side note, looks like packer might be a nice alternative to yaourt - but I'll try to keep to topic in this thread, as I don't think yaourt is the issue.)

Also, I tried simply re-uploading but no dice.

Last edited by thread (2010-02-05 04:51:59)

tdy

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Re: [SOLVED] Unrelated Issue - AUR PKGBUILD updated, but not 'pkg'.tar.gz

However it then downloads qbzr.tzr.gz, within which is the PKGBUILD file of version (0.16).

there's nothing wrong with the tarball, so i'm not sure why you think it's not an issue/bug/problem/etc with yaourt..

$ wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qbzr/qbzr.tar.gz
$ bsdtar xf qbzr.tar.gz
$ grep ^pkgver= qbzr/PKGBUILD
pkgver=0.18

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Snowman

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Re: [SOLVED] Unrelated Issue - AUR PKGBUILD updated, but not 'pkg'.tar.gz

yaourt is no longer maintained and there are problems with it.  It might be better to use packer or another similar AUR helper app.

some-guy94

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Re: [SOLVED] Unrelated Issue - AUR PKGBUILD updated, but not 'pkg'.tar.gz

Try removing /tmp/yaourt*

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Re: [SOLVED] Unrelated Issue - AUR PKGBUILD updated, but not 'pkg'.tar.gz

Awesome.  Yes the tar.gz is indeed good now. (Oh, I had tried removing yaourt tmp yesterday, but it kept getting the dodgy tar.gz from somewhere, was driving me insane. So...)

I guess either:
a) the tar.gz sometimes doesn't update immediately
b) the proxy server at my university was repeatedly "helping" by remembering the old version that I had downloaded earlier to economise on transmissions.

As for yaourt - having read a bit about packer yesterday I'm quite keen to check it out.