yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

ibrunton · 2011-06-19 15:25:12

I've just installed yaourt to give it a try. When I run "yaourt -Qu --aur", however, the AUR packages that I had previously installed manually (download, makepkg, pacman -U) do not show up, even though if I search explicitly for one of them, it is labelled as installed and in need of updating.

Running "yaourt -Qm" gives me:

local/archey 20110506-1
local/charm 1.9.1-4
local/dropbox 1.1.35-1
local/dropbox-servicemenu 0.15.3-1
local/emacs-org-mode 7.5-1
local/flashplugin-prerelease 10.3.162.29-2
local/greed 3.4-3
local/gtk-theme-elegant-gtk 4.0-1
local/minecraft latest-12
local/package-query 0.8-1
local/phonon-xine 4.4.4-1
local/tinyfugue 5.0b8-1
local/ttf-digital-readout 1.1-1
local/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-8
local/ttf-sil-fonts 5-1
local/ttf-tahoma 3.14-2
local/urlview 0.9-7
local/yaourt 0.10.1-2

Running "yaourt -Ss dropbox-servicemenu" gives me:

aur/dropbox-servicemenu 0.15.4-1 [installed: 0.15.3-1] (153)

Running "yaourt -Qua" only lists packages in core, extra, and community repos.

So the question is: How do I get yaourt to make the connection between the "local/" packages and "aur/" packages when searching for updates?

Thanks

karol · 2011-06-19 15:31:02

I don't I understand what do you want to accomplish.
Do you want to update just the packages you installed from AUR? This is discouraged, you should always update the whole system, all the packages.

falconindy · 2011-06-19 15:31:59

Installed packages have no metadata describing what repo they came from. 'local' is their assigned repo. pacman -Qm will show all packages which are installed but which cannot be related back to a matching package in the sync DBs.

This isn't the proper forum to be asking questions about yaourt.

ibrunton · 2011-06-19 15:37:53

karol wrote:

I don't I understand what do you want to accomplish.
Do you want to update just the packages you installed from AUR? This is discouraged, you should always update the whole system, all the packages.

No, I want to be able to see all available updates, including those from AUR. Right now they're not showing up in the output of "yaourt -Qu --aur".

falconindy wrote:

This isn't the proper forum to be asking questions about yaourt.

I'm sorry. What is?

falconindy · 2011-06-19 15:41:30

The AUR forum, or archlinux.fr.

If all you want to see is AUR updates, cower can do that as simply as 'cower -u'.

ibrunton · 2011-06-19 15:44:24

falconindy wrote:

If all you want to see is AUR updates, cower can do that as simply as 'cower -u'.

As I said above, I want to be able to see all updates: core, extra, community, and aur. I'm guessing yaourt cannot do this, then?

SS4 · 2011-06-19 16:28:42

yaourt -Su

although you should really run a y flag too

Last edited by SS4 (2011-06-19 16:29:06)

ANOKNUSA · 2011-06-19 16:59:18

yaourt -Syua && man yaourt

ibrunton · 2011-06-20 00:08:18

Thanks. The yaourt man page is very sparse, and yaourt apparently does not duplicate nearly as much of pacman's behaviour as I expected it to. I was looking for a query function (i.e., something comparable to "pacman -Qu" that includes AUR), not a sync option, but it looks like it doesn't exist.

ANOKNUSA · 2011-06-20 00:58:38

pacman -Qm or yaourt -Qm

will list any package that didn't come from the official Arch repos, whether you got the source code from the AUR or some other source. local/<package> just refers to any package built locally, rather than retrieved via pacman's sync databases; hence, if you got the source for a package from the AUR, -Qm will list it. The command I posted in my previous post will check the AUR for PKGBUILDs that have been updated in the meantime. Yaourt only checks updates to the PKGBUILD, and so won't automatically retrieve anything from a development repo (git, svn, bzr, etc), which is good practice anyway for both security and stability reasons.

ibrunton · 2011-06-20 01:23:33

ANOKNUSA wrote:

Yaourt only checks updates to the PKGBUILD, and so won't automatically retrieve anything from a development repo (git, svn, bzr, etc), which is good practice anyway for both security and stability reasons.

Thanks, this is good to know! I can imagine I might have got very confused by this.

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#1 2011-06-19 15:25:12

yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

#2 2011-06-19 15:31:02

Re: yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

#3 2011-06-19 15:31:59

Re: yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

#4 2011-06-19 15:37:53

Re: yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

#5 2011-06-19 15:41:30

Re: yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

#6 2011-06-19 15:44:24

Re: yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

#7 2011-06-19 16:28:42

Re: yaourt "local/" packages vs "aur/" packages

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#9 2011-06-20 00:08:18

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#10 2011-06-20 00:58:38

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#11 2011-06-20 01:23:33

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