[arch-general] New Using AUR

[Heiko Baums]

Am Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:24:23 -0400
schrieb David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>:

> Pacman does not upgrade AUR packages.  Only packages from core,
> extra, or community.  So you need to manually update AUR packages.

Those dependencies need to be built and installed on PC1 from AUR
before the "main" AUR package is built anyway. So they can also be
moved to PC2 as binary packages and should be installed automatically
by pacman when the "main" package is installed on PC2.

> So what you should do is create an account for yourself on the AUR,
> then log in to the site, go to the page for that package, and click
> "notify". Then you'll be notified when new messages appear on that
> package's AUR page - and so you'll find out when the PKGBUILD has
> been upgraded to a new version.

Usually you're not informed by the notify feature when an AUR package
is updated, because most maintainers don't write comments, when they
update their package. So you should use one of the wrapper scripts like
yaourt, aurbuild etc. to search for updates.

Heiko