[SOLVED] yaourt seems not to manage cache correctly

Question

Firstly, I'll tell you that I put these options in /etc/yaourtrc to make yaourt save a copy of all the packages:
# Build
EXPORT=1
EXPORTDIR="/var/cache/pacman/pkg-local"
as it's written in the wiki. The problem is that, for example, when I try to update telegram-desktop, I always get an error like this:
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    telegram-desktop.tar.xz ... FAILED
    telegram.svg ... Passed
    telegram ... Passed
    telegram.desktop ... Passed
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build telegram-desktop.
ans that's because, last time I updated telegram-desktop, yaourt exported the package into the cache as these two files:
# ls /var/cache/pacman/pkg-local/telegram*
/var/cache/pacman/pkg-local/telegram-desktop-0.6.11-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  /var/cache/pacman/pkg-local/telegram-desktop.tar.xz
but I think the second one (without version numbers) should be a temporary file that should disappear after the installation in order to let yaourt download it again from the AUR (as I told before, the problem is that that file corresponds to an old version; indeed yaourt doesn't download anything when you try to update, it thinks it's already downloaded and checks the md5sum, which is wrong, obviously). Removing the file /var/cache/pacman/pkg-local/telegram-desktop.tar.xz lets yaourt update.
What should I do to solve this? Is it a matter of yaourt or of telegram-desktop?
Last edited by josealberto4444 (2014-11-26 22:54:09)

Answer 1

Trilby wrote:But if the OP of this thread is new to using the AUR, which seems to be the case, I would still suggest not using yaourt (yet).
Hmm... I've been using yaourt to install things from the AUR since the first day in Arch, more or less, one year ago, and I had no problems until I change that to have a copy of the installers. I thank you very much for your suggestions, I'll take a look at those packages (the one you said and the others) and I'll look for their advantages and disadvantages, but when I have time (wich seems to be in some months).
Scimmia wrote:@josealberto4444, did you set SRCDEST in makepkg.conf?
As an answer of this and the final solution (I hope), I put EXPORT=1 and removed $EXPORTDIR in /etc/yaourtrc, created ~/.packages and ~/.makepkg.conf with PKGDEST=~/.packages, moved all the files in /var/cache/pacman/pkg-local to ~/.packages, changed the ownership to me and removed /var/cache/pacman/pkg-local with its changed permissions and problems. Let's see how it works in the next update. I think it should work and fixes the problem with the security due to the changed permissions. I'll post here when I update any package using yaourt with new problems or the solved tag, haha.
Thanks to all
Edit: It worked perfectly, I put the tag [SOLVED].
Last edited by josealberto4444 (2014-11-26 22:54:27)