Bauerbill: Powerpill + ABS, AUR, CPAN and Hackage support + more

Vasher · 2010-04-03 20:27:47

Xyne wrote:

I don't want to change the default user agent because that will only encourage others to the same stupid thing that they've done on the KDE mirrors. I recommend contacting the KDE people to request that they provide a solution for aria2c and other download agents in general. In the meantime you can add "user-agent=Wget" to the Aria2Args option in the config file.
I'll make a note of this on the project page.

Well, I don't know enough about ways (be they good or bad) to deal with mirror lists to know how foolish their solution is, but it is frustrating if you're not using something popular or standard enough to be special cased by them. But being able to add the appropriate config to the config file does make it possible to fix the problem without making all bauerbill users have to incorrectly report the download program that they're using. So, it looks like we have a solution.

I'll see what I can do about contacting the kde folks about making aria2 work with their site.

karabaja4 · 2010-04-04 21:25:26

Why is there a long loading time and disk activity when installing a package from AUR? Installing official repo packages with pacman -S takes about 4-5 times less time. I've experienced this stall with yaourt too, I'm just wondering what the reason is...

polymetr · 2010-04-04 21:30:12

karabaja4 wrote:

Why is there a long loading time and disk activity when installing a package from AUR? Installing official repo packages with pacman -S takes about 4-5 times less time. I've experienced this stall with yaourt too, I'm just wondering what the reason is...

Maybe it is compiling?

karabaja4 · 2010-04-04 22:03:06

polymetr wrote:

karabaja4 wrote:
Why is there a long loading time and disk activity when installing a package from AUR? Installing official repo packages with pacman -S takes about 4-5 times less time. I've experienced this stall with yaourt too, I'm just wondering what the reason is...
Maybe it is compiling?

No, I mean the time from when I start bauerbill to when the first output line appears in terminal.

Xyne · 2010-04-04 22:49:20

The disk IO is due to the sync database search. It first checks for packages with matching names which only requires a directory scan, but if it doesn't find one it has to open database files for every package to check for matching groups and providers. After that it has to send a query to the AUR server. The "Memoize" option will prevent redundant sync database searches but will use a bit more memory. You can also reduce the overhead a bit by prefixing aur pkgnames with "aur/", e.g. "aur/foo". I don't remember if that actually bypasses the sync database search entirely, but "time" reports a difference.

norswap · 2010-04-05 23:23:29

Figured out. Nevermind.

Last edited by norswap (2010-04-05 23:49:03)

pogeymanz · 2010-04-06 00:11:32

Bauerbill always fails when I try to install kernel26-ck from AUR.

:: 1 unsuccessful download(s). Would you like to retry? [Y/n] y

--> successfully downloaded patch-2.6.33.2-1-ARCH.bz2                                            
                                                                                                 
Download Results:
gid|stat|avg speed  |path/URI
===+====+===========+===========================================================
  2|  OK|       0B/s|/var/bauerbill/aur/kernel26-ck/patch-2.6.33.2-1-ARCH.bz2
  1| ERR|       0B/s|/var/bauerbill/aur/kernel26-ck/autoiso-xorg.patch

Status Legend:
 (OK):download completed.(ERR):error occurred.

aria2 will resume download if the transfer is restarted.
If there are any errors, then see the log file. See '-l' option in help/man page for details.

:: 1 unsuccessful download(s). Would you like to retry? [Y/n] n
:: Would you like to abort the operation? [y/n] y

It will always fail on that file and I don't know why.
Yaourt and Clyde can download it with no problem.

gogi-goji · 2010-04-06 04:16:27

I can echo pogeymanz's problems. I've experienced the exact same thing, and can't imagine why it fails to download the autoiso-xorg patch. It seems to use the right adress to download the file from, but for some reason it fails. Which is especially weird when clyde handles things perfectly.

ngoonee · 2010-04-06 06:51:49

Try passing the link to that file to aria2 and see what happens?

jowilkin · 2010-04-07 22:11:37

I had a small issue with bauerbill today. Not reall an issue, more like a relevation for a feature request. I wanted to install adobe acrobat because I have a pdf that looks like crap in evince but looks fine when I print it.

So I went ahead and did bauerbill -Ss acroread and saw there was an aur package, so followed it with bauerbill -S acroread. It download the file and makepkg informed me the package didn't work on x86_64.

So basically it would be nice for bauerbill to check whether I can actually install the package before downloading a 58MB source file.

Vasher · 2010-04-08 00:31:12

jowilkin wrote:

I had a small issue with bauerbill today. Not reall an issue, more like a relevation for a feature request. I wanted to install adobe acrobat because I have a pdf that looks like crap in evince but looks fine when I print it.
So I went ahead and did bauerbill -Ss acroread and saw there was an aur package, so followed it with bauerbill -S acroread. It download the file and makepkg informed me the package didn't work on x86_64.
So basically it would be nice for bauerbill to check whether I can actually install the package before downloading a 58MB source file.

That certainly could be useful, and I think that it's already parsing the PKGBUILD for stuff anyway, so it probably wouldn't be all that hard for it to do that, though obviously Xyne is going to have to be the one to decide that.

However, I would point out in case you didn't figure it out (though you probably did) that the package you want for x86_64 is bin32-acroread.

jowilkin · 2010-04-08 01:30:03

Vasher wrote:

However, I would point out in case you didn't figure it out (though you probably did) that the package you want for x86_64 is bin32-acroread.

Yup, thanks, I did find it. The pdf does look much better in acroread too than it did in evince, I thought pdf should look more or less the same across readers, but it seems not.

Vasher · 2010-04-08 01:52:02

jowilkin wrote:

Vasher wrote:
However, I would point out in case you didn't figure it out (though you probably did) that the package you want for x86_64 is bin32-acroread.
Yup, thanks, I did find it. The pdf does look much better in acroread too than it did in evince, I thought pdf should look more or less the same across readers, but it seems not.

It probably depends on the document. If it's actually text rather than an image, it's almost certainly going to have to worry about how to properly render fonts which could certainly change things. There are probably other issues which could mess with it, but I haven't run into a big problem with that (I typically use okular). The problem that I've typically run into is printing pdfs correctly, and I've often had problems with pdf files trying to print as A4 and the like in spite of the fact that my printer is setup for letter. Acroread generally does that correctly where others might not.

MindTooth · 2010-04-08 17:41:20

How to list only the AUR packages?

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-08 19:04:30

bauerbill -Ss * | grep AUR/

Primoz · 2010-04-09 13:19:12

I have a strange problem. I'm using kernel26-ck from AUR and when bauerbill is downloading sources and patches it always fails to download autoiso-xorg.patch (http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/autoiso-xorg.patch)
I tried few times with yaourt, and at first it didn't work, but now it works.
But bauerbill never could download it.
My best guess is, that autoiso-xorg is to small patch and aria2c breaks it, or something...

MindTooth · 2010-04-09 13:46:00

SanskritFritz wrote:

bauerbill -Ss * | grep AUR/

It doesn't solve anything for me

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-09 14:04:31

MindTooth wrote:

It doesn't solve anything for me

What do you mean?

Runiq · 2010-04-10 18:49:30

It seems to me that the --pacman-config isn't handed over to pacman correctly. I tried updating the package database of an i686 chroot (from the "outer" x86_64 environment) and was using a modified pacman.conf file for that (under /opt/arch32/pacman.conf, as in the wiki article).

$ alias bb32
bb32='bauerbill --root /opt/arch32 --cachedir /opt/arch32/var/cache/pacman/pkg --pacman-config /opt/arch32/pacman.conf'

# bb32 -Syu
Rebasing…
(Updates stuff)
--> Switching to pacman: /usr/bin/pacman --root /opt/arch32 --cachedir /opt/arch32/var/cache/pacman/pkg -S -u

As you can see in the last line, pacman doesn't get the "--config /opt/arch32/pacman.conf" option that it should. So, updating the package database with this bb32 command leaves me with x86_64 packages. The mirrorlists referenced in my /opt/arch32/pacman.conf are pointing towards i686 mirrors alright, and a pacman32 -Syu (which has basically the same options as bb32, except for --config instead of --pacman-config, of course) gives me the right i686 package database.

Last edited by Runiq (2010-04-10 18:50:40)

MindTooth · 2010-04-10 19:25:38

SanskritFritz wrote:

MindTooth wrote:
It doesn't solve anything for me
What do you mean?

As in it didn't solve anything for me. I still can't get an output of packages installed from AUR. Thanks for your attempt

smradlev · 2010-04-10 21:22:38

The memory problem is back. Bauerbill just consumed 2.4 GB of RAM when doing my daily -Syu --aur. Without AUR turned, it consumes little, as before. I have not touched any of the settings for ~ a month now, and I don't think the bug was there a couple of days ago.

I have 4GB of RAM, so right now it is not too much of a problem for me, but it is somewhat annoying. So, if you have the time, I'd be glad if you look into this, Xyne.

Thanks again for the great tool!

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-11 06:12:58

MindTooth
For me it lists all available AUR packages.

MindTooth · 2010-04-11 11:51:34

My bad, I did not clarify myself enough. List installed AUR packages was what I ment
Also, doesn't Bauerbill support rebase, it keep switching to pacman?

SanskritFritz · 2010-04-11 22:34:13

Interesting. I tried
bauerbill -Ss * | grep 'AUR/.*(installed)'
but this lists only 4 packages (I have lots more), while
bauerbill -Ss kernel | grep 'AUR/.*(installed)'
lists this:
AUR/kernel26-ck 2.6.33.2-1 (installed)
AUR/kernel26-zen 2.6.33-1 (installed)
AUR/nvidia-ck 195.36.15-1 (installed)

I cant find any explanation to this.

MindTooth · 2010-04-12 10:42:35

Displays nothing Ohh well, it doesn't matter anyway. Though it would be good to display what packages where installed from AUR.

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