[arch-general] Updating AUR package with pacman
Hi List,
when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine and pacman takes care of everything?
On 19/07/12 17:13, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
Hi List,
when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine and pacman takes care of everything?
Just build a new version of the AUR package and pacman will update it by installing the new package.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jelle van der Waa jelle@vdwaa.nl wrote:
On 19/07/12 17:13, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
Hi List,
when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine and pacman takes care of everything?
Just build a new version of the AUR package and pacman will update it by installing the new package.
Yes after building from the AUR: pacman -U path/to/package-compressed-xz-file
Interestingly I have tigervnc installed, that until recently used to be in AUR - last night when I did pacman -Syu I found this package had moved to community and obligingly updated to the new version without me doing anything special - nice!
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 17:13:44 Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
Hi List,
when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine and pacman takes care of everything?
You can just install the new version. Pacman takes care of it. But even better would be to use something like packer/yaourt.
On 07/19/2012 12:18 PM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 17:13:44 Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
Hi List,
when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine and pacman takes care of everything?
You can just install the new version. Pacman takes care of it. But even better would be to use something like packer/yaourt.
packer -Syu --auronly
Jonathan Dlouhy dlouhy55@gmail.com writes:
On 07/19/2012 12:18 PM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 17:13:44 Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
Hi List,
when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine and pacman takes care of everything?
You can just install the new version. Pacman takes care of it. But even better would be to use something like packer/yaourt.
packer -Syu --auronly
Packer must be new somehow, did not hear about it before (only about yaourt). So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, because it makes AUR packages as easily installable and updatable like packages form the official repos?
Thorsten Jolitz tjolitz@googlemail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44:
[...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, [...]
Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git? That would be really great!
On 07/19/2012 09:52 AM, Christian Hesse wrote:
Thorsten Jolitz tjolitz@googlemail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44:
[...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, [...]
Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git? That would be really great!
From the wiki: Git Repo
A Git Repo of the AUR is maintained by Thomas Dziedzic providing package history among other things. It is updated at least once a day. To clone the repository (several hundred MB):
$ git clone git://pkgbuild.com/aur-mirror.git
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository
hth
Don deJuan donjuansjiz@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 09:53:
On 07/19/2012 09:52 AM, Christian Hesse wrote:
Thorsten Jolitz tjolitz@googlemail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44:
[...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, [...]
Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git? That would be really great!
From the wiki: Git Repo
A Git Repo of the AUR is maintained by Thomas Dziedzic providing package history among other things. It is updated at least once a day. To clone the repository (several hundred MB):
$ git clone git://pkgbuild.com/aur-mirror.git
Nice!
Though I would prefer a rsync interface. I do not need package history and would like to save the disk space...
2012/7/20 Christian Hesse list@eworm.de:
Don deJuan donjuansjiz@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 09:53:
On 07/19/2012 09:52 AM, Christian Hesse wrote:
Thorsten Jolitz tjolitz@googlemail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44:
[...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, [...]
Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git? That would be really great!
From the wiki: Git Repo
A Git Repo of the AUR is maintained by Thomas Dziedzic providing package history among other things. It is updated at least once a day. To clone the repository (several hundred MB):
$ git clone git://pkgbuild.com/aur-mirror.git
Nice!
Though I would prefer a rsync interface. I do not need package history and would like to save the disk space...
There is also aur3[1]. It offers metadata (things you see on the package pages of AUR website) in additional to PKGBUILDs. It doesn't provide rsync access, but I found 18MB (PKGBUILD + metadata, it's compressed) is acceptable.
aur3 also has a really neat JSON API, offering full regex searching.
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 18:44:13 Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
Jonathan Dlouhy dlouhy55@gmail.com writes:
On 07/19/2012 12:18 PM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote:
On Thursday 19 Jul 2012 17:13:44 Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
Hi List,
when I want to install a new version from an already installed AUR package - do I have to remove the old version first, or do I simply follow the same steps as if there would be no old version on my machine and pacman takes care of everything?
You can just install the new version. Pacman takes care of it. But even better would be to use something like packer/yaourt.
packer -Syu --auronly
Packer must be new somehow, did not hear about it before (only about yaourt). So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, because it makes AUR packages as easily installable and updatable like packages form the official repos?
To answer your question - Yes. But you have to be careful. First do your normal system upgrade through pacman
pacman -Syu
and after that update AUR packages. Do not install normal packages through packer or yaourt, there have been some problems last time I was reading about it.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Thorsten Jolitz tjolitz@googlemail.com wrote:
Packer must be new somehow, did not hear about it before (only about yaourt).
The thread is 2.5 years old https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88115 and the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers lists some other helpers too.
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Cheer Xiao
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Christian Hesse
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Don deJuan
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Jelle van der Waa
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Jonathan Dlouhy
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