Arson - The HOT AUR search helper

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the AUR search helper!
Thanks rson for this ascii art!
arson v0.8.7 - The HOT AUR search helper!
Usage: arson [options] -COMMAND KEYWORD1 [KEYWORD2 ...]
Where -COMMAND is one of:
-D, --Download Download the AUR package specified
-S, --Search Search AUR for a package name
-I, --Info Get information about a package
-U, --Upgrade List of foreign packages which have an
update available for them in AUR
Download options
--save-to [PATH] Directory for arson to download AUR
packages [Default: Current directory]
-k, --keep Keep the .tar.gz after extracting it
[Default: Delete]
-f, --force Overwrite the package's extraction target
if it exists. [Default: Don't]
-r, --[no-]recursive Check the dependency list for other AUR
packages. [Default: Yes]
Upgrade options
--foreign [REPO] Set all packages within a repository as
foreign, to be included in the
upgrade search. This can be repeated
multiple times. [Default: None]
Info options
-l, --[no-]long Use a more tabular display for output
Generic options
-v, --[no-]verbose Run verbosely
-c, --no-color Supress color output [Default: No]
-V, --version Display the version number
-h, --help Display this help message
--more-help Display even more help
Arson is a cli AUR searcher and downloader, written in Ruby. It allows you to search the AUR for a package you want, and download it. It does NOT automatically install the downloaded package. It can extract it, but not install. Searching for a package also searches through pacman's db cache (rather than going to each mirror and querying those).
Requirements:
ruby
rubygems
Ruby JSON gem (To install it: gem install json)
Ruby Facets gem (To install it: gem install facets)
Get it while it's hot! Download from AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16021
Last edited by zenix (2008-12-22 11:17:39)

Answer 1

Arson still doesn't work for me in urxvt - it produces the same error as before:
$ arson -S arson
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/terminfo.rb:80:in `tigetstr': canceled or absent string capability (TermInfo::TermInfoError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/terminfo.rb:80:in `control_string'
from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/terminfo.rb:43:in `control_string'
from /usr/bin/arson:26
It seems to work fine in xterm and xfce Terminal though.
I installed ruby, rubygems, ruby-terminfo (make, sudo make install) and minitar (via the .gem file).
Also, I noticed that passing an invalid option produces a whole array of errors, I don't know if it's intended or not:
$ arson -foo
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1443:in `complete': invalid option: -foo (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1441:in `catch'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1441:in `complete'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1280:in `parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1247:in `catch'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1247:in `parse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1241:in `order!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1332:in `permute!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1353:in `parse!'
from /usr/bin/arson:45:in `opt_parse'
from /usr/bin/arson:121
Anyway, this looks like a nice utility - once I get it working. (I don't mean to sound harsh, I appreciate your efforts! )