yoo/apacman

AUR wrapper forked from keenerd/packer

ShellGPL-3.0

apacman

ArchLinux User Repository (AUR) helper and pacman wrapper

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Forked from packer

Installation:

pacman -S --needed --asdeps jshon
curl -O "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oshazard/apacman/master/apacman"
bash ./apacman -S apacman
apacman -S apacman-deps (optional)

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Changelog:

Version 3.1

NEW Clean build directory and temp directory (fixed #75)
NEW Expanded -G to fetch old AUR package source (-G foobar~ or -G foobar==2.0-1)
NEW Added new exit codes (fixed #72)
NEW Converted manpages to HTML
NEW Fix for progress bar to match pacman (pull request #76)
NEW Fix ZSH completion (pull request #74)
NEW Miscellaneous fixes and cleanup

Version 3.0

Add alternative --flag=parameter syntax for relevant options
Fix for installing groups and virtual packages
Fix to allow installing cached packages without Internet
Implement unit tests using bats (WIP)
Add regex/wildcard support to -S and -Ss
Return code 1 on errors
Improve viewing package comments
Update manpages
Closed 10+ issues since last release

Version 2.9

-P parameter uses AUR passthrough for pkgfile
Save installed AUR package metadata to database
--nodatabase parameter does not store AUR database
--gendb parameter to generate AUR database files
Display remaining packages in queue
--notify parameter for notify-send notifications
--noprogress to disable transaction progress
Enabled terminal title progress by default
--edit parameter to override 'noedit' option in config file
fix CLI flag precedence over config file

Version 2.6

improve -U to display packages removed from AUR as "unresolvable"
bug fix for --devel
merged fix that improves curl debugging
merged fix that removes split package support
merged pull requests for AUR5 support
improved virtual package support
improved -U handling
-W parameter to view package comments
sanity checks for curl with debugging
fixes for ABS
improved signed package support
--keepkeys parameter stores PGP keys
--purgekeys parameter removes trusted PGP keys
fix for piping output
fix for yes/no dialog

Version 2.0

Split package support and shared source
Improved AUR4 support
Bug fix for AUR4 -Si
Bug fix for built/failed
--legacy flag for AUR3
Preliminary AUR4 support
Signed package support

Version 1.6

Display [installed], [installed: VER], or [local: VER] in -Ss
--progress parameter sets terminal title to package status
Add AUR link to -Si info
Bug fix for saved AUR packages and --cachevcs
Bug fix for pacmatic
Build status log
Override EDITOR for PKGBUILDs in config file
--buildonly parameter to build but not AUR install packages
--nofail parameter to quit if a package does not build
--purgebuild parameter to remove unneeded build depends
--skiptest to avoid installing unit test packages

Version 1.0

Config file support (/etc/apacman.conf)
Cleaned up manpages
Replacement for pacsysclean (-L list installed packages by size)
-G now supports ABS + AUR packages
--noaur parameter to skip AUR packages
--warn parameter makes errors non-fatal (only enable if you know what you are doing)
Run as root workaround for Pacman 4.2+

Version 0.6

All features from packer
Saves built AUR packages to /var/cache/apacman/pkg
Uses AUR package cache directory if applicable
--needed parameter that does not install up-to-date packages
--ignorearch parameter that ignores architectures specified in PKGBUILD (useful for ARM devices)
--skipcache parameter that skips check for pre-built package in cache directory
--cachevcs parameter installs cached VCS (git, svn, hg) packages newer than AUR PKGBUILDs
Partial passthrough support for -R, -Q, and -U pacman parameters