yaourt: pacman frontend

quarkup · 2009-10-09 23:02:21

there's one thing missing..

if I'm installing something with yaourt, it should respond to the unix SIGNALS correctly, this is:
- if I press Ctrl+C it should stop and sigterm the pacman/libalpm and then stop the yaourt thing.

it happens not. I must press up to 3 times to stop yaourt from installing that app.

Last edited by quarkup (2009-10-09 23:02:47)

mar77i · 2009-11-26 11:50:42

I find it a little bit strange that yaourt asks twice if one wishes to edit PKGBUILD and .install files.
Shouldn't one query be enough?

ngsupb · 2009-12-11 11:31:52

Guy, what do you think about about such optoin to add to yaourt or pacman.

So for example we list available updates, but add the time when the package is appeared.
==> Software upgrade (new version) :
extra/aria2 1.6.3-1 -> 1.7.1-2 (10 days ago)

Is it possible?

It would help for those who wants to stick to tested releases by community and avoid upgrading to newest packages those have a risk of non-discovered bugs and just update to these packages later after a few weeks of the release date.

Sometimes I update right away after packages are released, but when I don't have time to fix something I would prefer to stay away from newest upgrades. But the problem it is hard to know which is new package and which one is old

owain · 2009-12-11 11:58:42

mar77i wrote:

I find it a little bit strange that yaourt asks twice if one wishes to edit PKGBUILD and .install files.
Shouldn't one query be enough?

I agree - or the post-edit query should be a different one, with [Y/n] rather than [y/N].

doorknob60 · 2009-12-17 23:44:55

When I try to install packages from AUR, when I press 'y' or 'n' when it asks about editing the PKGBUILD, yaourt just kills itself with no output. If I press y, it opens nano like normal but when I close it yaourt is still dead. Any ideas?

pogeymanz · 2009-12-19 23:33:46

When I try to issue a

yaourt -Syub

It tries to compile the correct software, but not the right version. It tries to compile the version I already have installed instead of the newest version.

Yet

yaourt -Syu

works just fine.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

posativ · 2009-12-26 22:57:04

Maybe it was mentioned somehere, but since one or two month, my yaourt output looks like this.
It is a bug or my fault?

23:52:37::$ y -S rtorrent-svn --noconfirm           
==> Resuming previous build                         
==> Downloading $PKG PKGBUILD from AUR...
[...]
:: rtorrent-color: steht im Konflikt mit rtorrent
==> WARNING: Your package is saved in $YAOURTTMPDIR/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-$PARCH${PKGEXT}

Last edited by posativ (2009-12-26 22:57:43)

pogeymanz · 2010-02-17 23:32:53

So, I'm using yaourt-git and I have my sudo timeout set to ask for a password every time.

So, if I run yaourt, it asks for my password three times. Is there any way to consolidate that into one?

some-guy94 · 2010-02-18 00:30:05

pogeymanz wrote:

So, I'm using yaourt-git and I have my sudo timeout set to ask for a password every time.
So, if I run yaourt, it asks for my password three times. Is there any way to consolidate that into one?

Yaourt can be modified to support this, all it really requires is this

stty -echo
read -p "sudo password: " spass
stty echo

sudo -S [command] <<<${spass}

Last edited by some-guy94 (2010-02-18 00:30:26)

gav616 · 2010-06-03 11:55:03

some-guy94 wrote:

pogeymanz wrote:
So, I'm using yaourt-git and I have my sudo timeout set to ask for a password every time.
So, if I run yaourt, it asks for my password three times. Is there any way to consolidate that into one?
Yaourt can be modified to support this, all it really requires is this
stty -echo
read -p "sudo password: " spass
stty echo

sudo -S [command] <<<${spass}

sorry, but I don't understand, how do you stop it asking 3 times?

tuxce · 2010-06-03 12:25:18

He propose that yaourt stores password and then use it for each sudo call, but the password will be available for every PKGBUILD and visible in process list.

If you want to disable sudo verification, just modify "is_sudo_allowed()" in /usr/bin/yaourt:

is_sudo_allowed()
{
  return 0
}

gav616 · 2010-06-03 13:29:31

tuxce wrote:

He propose that yaourt stores password and then use it for each sudo call, but the password will be available for every PKGBUILD and visible in process list.
If you want to disable sudo verification, just modify "is_sudo_allowed()" in /usr/bin/yaourt:
is_sudo_allowed()
{
  return 0
}

Thank you very much, that worked a treat

Erus_Iluvatar · 2010-06-04 12:11:35

pogeymanz wrote:

When I try to issue a
yaourt -Syub
It tries to compile the correct software, but not the right version. It tries to compile the version I already have installed instead of the newest version.
Yet
yaourt -Syu
works just fine.
Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

The rsync server is not updated as often as your mirror, so you will have to wait a bit before the current version reaches it.

venky80 · 2010-06-05 01:31:20

is yaourt is being maintained? I heard the development has stopped

Wintervenom · 2010-06-05 02:29:07

Slowly maintained, but has not completely stopped.

Stythys · 2010-06-05 05:35:37

why use it, anyways

toxygen · 2010-06-05 15:55:03

how did this become a "dont use yaourt" thread? you dont like it/use it/care, please skip the thread...

it is maintained, slow or fast.. it is used by many of us..

back on topic, can someone explain to me the difference between the yaourt package and yaourt-git? on my desktop I upgraded yaourt, and get warned about new config file (yaourtrc). on laptop, using -git, i get no such message. both yaourtrc's look the same to me..

mutlu_inek · 2010-06-06 13:26:24

toxygen wrote:

how did this become a "dont use yaourt" thread? you dont like it/use it/care, please skip the thread...
it is maintained, slow or fast.. it is used by many of us..

I agree. Yaourt is a great program and has worked perfectly for me since I started using Arch Linux back in 2005. There are regular upgrades to adjust to changes to pacman. Please stop the FUD about it not being maintained.

tuxce · 2010-06-06 20:38:08

toxygen wrote:

back on topic, can someone explain to me the difference between the yaourt package and yaourt-git?

now, it's the same cause the last commit corresponds to the last release, otherwise, -git is the development version.

toxygen wrote:

on my desktop I upgraded yaourt, and get warned about new config file (yaourtrc). on laptop, using -git, i get no such message. both yaourtrc's look the same to me..

yaourtrc has bash syntax in -git since a while now, I simply forget to update the PKGBUILD to show the warning in the -git package.

ssri · 2010-06-06 20:53:18

toxygen wrote:

how did this become a "dont use yaourt" thread? you dont like it/use it/care, please skip the thread...
it is maintained, slow or fast.. it is used by many of us..

No kidding. There was a bug in the last release, I created a bug report, the maintainer quickly wrote the patch and the fix was out a day later or so. Hey, if it ain't broke, why fix it?

samuele.mattiuzzo · 2010-06-23 10:48:17

after last pacman upgrade, i keep getting this message

/usr/bin/pacman: unrecognized option '--print-uris'

after running yaourt --noconfirm -Syu

how can i fix this?

mutlu_inek · 2010-06-23 13:04:09

samuele.mattiuzzo wrote:

after last pacman upgrade, i keep getting this message
/usr/bin/pacman: unrecognized option '--print-uris'
after running yaourt --noconfirm -Syu
how can i fix this?

I assume there will be a yaourt upgrade to handle the new pacman. I you can't wait, it is written in bash. You could just get rid of the option in question and see what happens.

tuxce · 2010-06-23 13:05:22

You have a very old version, update yaourt.

samuele.mattiuzzo · 2010-06-23 13:18:31

smau [~] $ yaourt -V
yaourt 0.9.4.3 is a pacman frontend with AUR support and more
homepage: http://archlinux.fr/yaourt

isn't this the last version?

tuxce · 2010-06-23 13:49:43

It is, but 0.9.4.3 doesn't use --print-uris, it runs "pacman -Spu"
Did you installed it from AUR ?

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