aurgit: A Python repository from arp242

Archived because I now use Void Linux instead of Arch. AFAIK it should still work well though.

A simple script to manage AUR packages. Yes ... another one, because it's exactly what the world needed!

I've been dealing with AUR packages like this for ages:

Find a package on the website.
git clone it to ~/aur/pkg
less PKGBUILD
makepkg -si
rm -r src *.tar *.gz *.zip and whatever else looks like a large file.

I felt things could be a bit smoother than manually doing that; I tried a bunch of the existing AUR manage scripts and found all of them far too complex. I just want to git clone && less PKGBUILD && makepkg -si; I don't need integration with standard Arch Linux packages or decorating my terminal like a Christmas tree, or anything else.

The only dependencies are Python 3.5 or newer and git. You probably already have them installed. There is an AUR package of course: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aurgit

Usage info:

Usage: ./aurgit [ sync | search | update | foreign ]

Manage AUR packages. A local "database" of AUR packages in stored in PKGDIR.
Use the foreign command to populate it if you're using this for the first time.

Commands:
  sync [pkg]        Get or update a package.
  search [query]    Search AUR packages; the output is sorted by vote count,
                    which is displayed after the version in {}.
  update [-n]       Update all packages in the package dir. Run git pull first
                    unless -n is given.
  foreign           Try to clone all installed foreign packages to PKGDIR.

Environment:
  AURGIT_PKGDIR     Dir to store git repos; default is $XDG_DATA_HOME/aur
                    (~/.local/aur for most people).
  AURGIT_PAGER      Pager to use; defaults to ${PAGER:-less}. Set to empty
                    string to not page anything.

A lot of these commands are pretty simple wrappers around the basic shell commands; sync is git {clone,pull} && makepkg -si, update is a for loop with git pull && makepkg -si.

This is conceptually very similar to my packman script to manage Vim packages. It started life as a modification of that, but doing the search in shell scripting was too ugly so I rewrote it to Python. I should have heeded my own advice. Perhaps I'll write a generic "manage a bunch of git repos" script some day.

Protip: stick this in your ~/.config/pacman/makepkg.conf to prevent it from compressing packages. You're just doing to uncompress/install it a few seconds later anyway. This can save a minute or more on some larger packages.

# Don't compress files; it's just a waste of time/CPU cycles.
PKGEXT='.tar'

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