What is you favourite program to update packages installed by aur?

Question

I used aurbuild, but I saw there are many... So what is your pacman for AUR? And overall why?

Answer 1

i just scripted the wget / tar / makepkg / pacman -U process with prompts between each step.  it also starts with a lynx aur google search to get the package name. 
script:
#!/bin/bash
# Aurget V 0.1
# pbrisbin 2009
# This script searches google for Arch Linux AUR packages
# The user selects from the results and the packages is
# optionally extracted, built, and installed
# Packages can be saved or discarded
# Usage: aurget [packagename]
# ToDo: track version info to see if your due for an update
# (basically, become yaourt!)
## User Config
# just some directories
WD="/tmp/aurget" # place to do some work
PD="$HOME/Packages" # place to store built packages
SAFE="$PD/aurget_dump" # place to dump data if something happens
## Program below
# set up the environment
[ -d $WD ] || (mkdir $WD && chmod 700 $WD)
[ -d $SAFE ] || mkdir -p $SAFE
LNG=$(echo $LANG | cut -d '_' -f 1)
CHARSET=$(echo $LANG | cut -d '.' -f 2)
# minimal error checking
if [ -z $1 ]; then
echo "Please specify a search term. Ex. ./aurget cairo"
exit 0
fi
# search google for the AUR package
lynx -accept_all_cookies -dump -hiddenlinks=ignore -nonumbers -assume_charset="$CHARSET" -display_charset="$CHARSET" "http://www.google.com/search?hl=${LNG}&q=${1}+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Faur.archlinux.org%2F&btnG=Search" | grep AUR\ \(en\) > $WD/results
if [ ! -s $WD/results ]; then
echo "Sorry, no appropriate results."
exit 0
fi
# display the results
clear
echo ""
echo "Results found:"
echo ""
cat -b $WD/results | awk '{ print " ", $1, "-", $6 }'
echo ""
echo "Please enter the number to download: (or q to quit)"
echo ""
# read which packages to DL
read NUM
if [ "$NUM" = "q" ]; then
echo " Quitting..."
exit 0
fi
PACK=$(cat -b $WD/results | grep -P "$NUM\t" | awk '{ print $6 }')
# download the tarball
clear
echo ""
echo "Downloading $PACK to $WD..."
echo ""
wget -q -O $WD/$PACK.tar.gz http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$PACK/$PACK.tar.gz || exit 1
# extract the tarball
clear
echo ""
echo " Tarball downloaded."
echo ""
echo " Extract the files? (y/n)"
echo ""
read E
case $E in
y)
cd $WD && tar xvzf $PACK.tar.gz || exit 2
n)
echo " Quitting..."
cp $WD/$PACK.tar.gz $SAFE/
rm -r $WD
exit 0
echo " Invalid, quitting."
rm -r $WD
exit 5
esac
# use makepkg to build the package
clear
echo ""
echo " Files extracted."
echo ""
echo " Build the package? (y/n)"
echo ""
read B
case $B in
y)
cd $WD/$PACK && makepkg -s || exit 3
PACK=$(find $WD/$PACK -name '*pkg.tar.gz')
n)
echo " Quitting..."
cp $WD/$PACK $SAFE/
rm -r $WD
exit 0
echo " Invalid, quitting."
rm -r $WD
exit 5
esac
# use pacman -U to install the package
clear
echo ""
echo " Package built."
echo ""
echo " Install the package? (y/n)"
echo ""
read I
case $I in
y)
sudo pacman -U $PACK || exit 4
n)
echo " Quitting..."
cp $PACK $PD/
rm -r $WD
exit 0
echo " Invalid, quitting..."
rm -r $WD
exit 5
esac
# clean up the working directory, save the package if you want
clear
echo ""
echo " Package was installed."
echo ""
echo " Keep the Package? (y/n)"
echo ""
read K
case $K in
y)
cp $PACK $PD/
rm -r $WD
exit 0
n)
echo " Quitting..."
rm -r $WD
exit 0
echo " Invalid, quitting..."
rm -r $WD
exit 5
esac
# always clean up after yourself
[ -d $WD ] && rm -r $WD
exit 0
i know i could probably search AUR directly but i took the lynx line from another script and just kept it (added the site= term to keep it AUR specific)
Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-04-02 17:19:44)