Users with experience, what's your favorite pacman wrapper?

trusktr · 2011-03-26 21:27:35

Since powerpill is no longer compatible with pacman 3.5, I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a pacman wrapper based on past experience before I try using random ones?

What I mean by "pacman wrapper" is not an "AUR-helper". I'm looking for a wrapper that uses pacman to get packages from Arch repos with more options, for example: concurrent downloads from multiple mirrors, etc.

I could care less about the AUR functionality at the moment, I just really need concurrent downloads and any other optimizations relating to Arch repos only.

THanks!

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Inxsible · 2011-03-26 21:29:14

Anything you like :: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Aur_helpers

SS4 · 2011-03-26 21:31:22

I'd just use regular pacman, I think you can put aria2 in pacman.conf to simulate powerpill's function

trusktr · 2011-03-26 21:42:11

I know about that list, Inxsible, but those are AUR helpers... I'm looking for a new pacman wrapper for normal packages, not AUR packages. hehe

SS4, how do you add aria2 in pacman.conf exactly?

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trusktr · 2011-03-26 21:47:24

Just curious for the popular opinion about pacman wrappers before I try them randomly.

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SS4 · 2011-03-26 21:49:31

Add the following to pacman.conf

XferCommand = /usr/bin/aria2c --allow-overwrite=true -c --file-allocation=none --log-level=error -m2 --max-connection-per-server=2 --max-file-not-found=5 --min-split-size=5M --no-conf --remote-time=true --summary-interval=60 -t5 -d / -o %o %u

src: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Im … sing_aria2

edit: did you change the thread title?

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KlavKalashj · 2011-03-26 21:50:10

I use Yaourt, mainly becouse it was the first one I heard of and it works good. Some say it's bloated, I say it's functional. Perhaps there is a faster and more advanced one, but I don't feel any need to try out others.

SS4 · 2011-03-26 21:52:10

Packer although I've not used it properly

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trusktr · 2011-03-26 21:53:46

hehe, yes I did. Thanks for the tip, i'll try it out.

trusktr · 2011-03-26 21:56:36

By the way, is that all one line?
EDIT: oh yeah ti is. hehe

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cactus · 2011-03-26 22:00:08

Sorry to hijack, but doesn't that aria2 xfercommand only fetch from one server (albiet with 2 connections per server)?

I think you need some type of wrapper script to provide multiple urls to aria2, via parsing the mirrorlist and generating the urls...

I had an old script that would generate metalink files on the fly, for aria2.

https://github.com/cactus/random/blob/m … bbler.bash

Been a loooong time since I used it though, so it very well might not work anymore. The getmirrorlist part of it may still work.
Beware dragons, etc.

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skunktrader · 2011-03-26 22:02:01

aurget

trusktr · 2011-03-26 22:04:51

good point cactus!
EDIT: shoot, at the pace it'll take me to learn bash enough to understand your script and make sure it works, i think i'm just going to use pacman at this very moment with 2 concurrent downloads per mirror as per above. hehe

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trusktr · 2011-03-26 22:09:35

But this is interesting. I'd like to figure out how to make pacman use concurrent downloads from as many mirrors as possible.

EDIT: SS4's inplmentation in the XferCommand is interesting. It shows the download progress without the name of the package, but then you can see what package it downloaded in the download summarry after each download. It'd be neato to change it so we see the package being downloaded along with the download progress status, but then no download summary, for each download, to minimize the output.

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Inxsible · 2011-03-26 22:47:23

aurget - because it only deals with AUR. very KISS.

Inxsible · 2011-03-26 22:49:14

trusktr wrote:

I know about that list, Inxsible, but those are AUR helpers... I'm looking for a new pacman wrapper for normal packages, not AUR packages. hehe

If you look at the list closely, you will see that the pacman wrappers also handle AUR .eg. clyde

So for your question : I would still answer with the same link.

Inxsible · 2011-03-26 22:50:34

Merged the two topics for pacman wrapper and aur helper !

since they are (mostly) one and the same.

Dieter@be · 2011-03-27 13:12:37

I like clyde. except right now, it's broken because of the new libalpm. but otherwise it's quite neat

zebulon · 2011-03-27 18:27:29

I use yaourt, it works extremely well and now that it is threaded, it is extremely fast on hyperthreaded/multicore CPU. And contrary to the rumors it is well supported and actively developed.

litemotiv · 2011-03-27 18:30:03

With bauerbill's demise, i have decided to give up wrappers for a while. So right now it's pacman + cower.

ngoonee · 2011-03-27 22:38:48

litemotiv wrote:

With bauerbill's demise, i have decided to give up wrappers for a while. So right now it's pacman + cower.

Coincidentally I'm wanting to test that, will only miss the auto-patch feature I think.

lagagnon · 2011-03-27 23:28:21

Dieter@be wrote:

I like clyde. except right now, it's broken because of the new libalpm. but otherwise it's quite neat

If you rebuild it now it works just fine and seems to search the AUR much faster. So I tend to prefer clyde, otherwise pacman+cower.

trusktr · 2011-03-28 08:11:53

Clyde seems to be the most popular right now, with three mentions. It reminds me of "Jekyll and Hyde"... I guess since it rhymes.

Should we make a wiki page for wrappers that handle only Arch repos (e.g. no AUR)?

kinhodder · 2011-03-28 11:39:04

I was using bauerbill, but switched to packer. I just set up a new machine with it - simple to use, and fast.

hauzer · 2011-03-28 18:21:23

I'm using yaourt. I don't get all the speed complaints. On my 1.4GHz, 1GB RAM machine it does it's job instantaneously.

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