Hello, Yeah that will work thanks. As a sidenote, what is the best way to check whether a package is within the aur, or official repositories in the most efficient manor. I assume: - Use libalpm to query the databases to look for the packages - If the package is not found, use RPC interface to check the AUR - If not found, throw error For some context, I am thinking of making a build system to autobuild -git packages by hooking to the source repository (such as github) and build every time a commit is pushed, then push it to a custom repository like [polarrepo-gitbuilds] or something. In all honesty it doesn't have much use apart from one or two git packages I hate having to rebuild on a daily basis manually/aur helper, instead I rather just pull it from my server through pacman. Thanks for the help, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian@polarian.dev

On 6/1/23 05:43, Georg Pfahler wrote:

isn't this exactly what aurutils' sync-devel example script does?

https://github.com/AladW/aurutils/blob/master/examples/README.md https://github.com/AladW/aurutils/blob/master/examples/sync-devel

cheers

Exactly, in brief, aurutils works by having a local custom repository of your own, and then you can add AUR packages to it, for example, with:

aur sync -S -d <your_repo> <aur_pkg>

And then keep them up to date through:

aur sync -S -d <your_repo> -u <aur_pkg>

You can rebuild your AUR packages through:

aur sync -S -d <your_repo> --no-ver -f <aur_pkg>

You can search for a package through:

aur search [-v] <aur_pkg_pattern>

On pacman.conf, make sure your custom local repo is listed after all official repos, so the AUR packages are picked last. One thing though, it's a good thing to manually search on the packages, although already installed and up to date, to see if they have been orphaned or not, if that's a thing... There's much more to aurutils. Though it's manual. If you were looking for auto notifications, you need something else. If you subscribe to a AUR package notifications, besides the comments on the package you also get update notifications, though depending on the package the comments might be too noisy... -- Javier

Jun 1, 2023 13:59:54 Polarian <polarian@polarian.dev>:

I want to be able to know where to pull a package, for example if a dependency is within the official repositories, simply pull it from there, otherwise build it from the aur.

Otherwise, automatic git builds wouldn't work because an aur dependency would not be pulled in.

aurutils already handles dependency resolution. You don't need to reimplement this (otherwise you now have to handle transitive dependencies, etc.). - éclairevoyant

Jun 1, 2023 14:13:45 Evert Vorster <evorster@gmail.com>:

Why not install Yay?

paru and aurutils can do clean chroot builds, yay cannot. - éclairevoyant

its since some hours or so that I get very often timeouts and/or "500 Internal Server Error" while accessing the AUR. It is fine for some seconds, sometimes minutes and then fails again. An example call done by the AUR helper (yay) is: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?arg%5B%5D=abootimg-git&arg%5B%5D=bcm4350-firmware&arg%5B%5D=bibata-extra-cursor-theme&arg%5B%5D=bootimgtool-git&arg%5B%5D=dbus-x11&arg%5B%5D=heimdall-git&arg%5B%5D=livepatcher&arg%5B%5D=python-clickgen1&arg%5B%5D=testdisk-wip&arg%5B%5D=zd1211-firmware&type=info&v=5 error on the CLI is: "net/http: TLS handshake timeout" error at the web is: "500 Internal Server Error" this is not that specific query though. it happens also just with opening https://aur.archlinux.org in a browser.. hope this is nothing serious :/ tested that on different systems.. Cheers Thomas