AUR helpers: Difference between revisions

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Warning: None of these tools are officially supported by Arch Linux. It is recommended to become familiar with the manual build process in order to be prepared to troubleshoot problems on one's own.

AUR helpers are written to automate certain tasks for the Arch User Repository.

Uploading

Script	Description
bbidulock's script	Migrate from a .backup directory with all packages.
aur4_import.sh	Splits a package from a git repository with multiple packages, adding/updating `.SRCINFO` for every commit.
aur4_make_submodule.sh subaur4	Replaces a package in a bigger git repository with an AUR 4 submodule, including `.SRCINFO`.
import-to-aur4	Splits an existing git repository into multiple AUR 4 packages, all at once, including `.SRCINFO` for every commit.
aurpublish	Manage AUR packages as git subtree. It is a simple, yet capable script to upload git subtrees as packages to the aur. The generation of `.SRCINOF` files, `PKGBUILD` checking and the creation of a per package commit message template is left to the git hooks in the same repo.

Build and search

This is a list of helper utilities that search, download and/or build packages.

apacman — A fork of packer.

https://github.com/oshazard/apacman || apacman^AUR

aura — A package manager for Arch Linux written in Haskell.

https://github.com/aurapm/aura || aura^AUR or aura-bin^AUR (binary)

aurel — Search, vote and download AUR packages from Emacs. (Forum page)

https://github.com/alezost/aurel || aurel^AUR^{[broken link: Template:Aur-mirror]}

aurget — pacman-like interface to the AUR, without wrapping pacman commands.

http://github.com/pbrisbin/aurget/ || aurget^AUR

aurquery — Caching wrapper around the AUR's RPC interface using the python3-aur library.

http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/python3-aur || python3-aur^AUR

aurutils — Helper tools for the AUR (Forum page).

https://github.com/AladW/aurutils || aurutils^AUR

bauerbill — Powerpill/pacman extension with support for building packages from ABS and AUR (Forum page).

http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/bauerbill || bauerbill^AUR

burgaur — A front-end for cower written in Python.

https://github.com/m45t3r/burgaur || burgaur^AUR

cower — AUR search and download agent written in C, which also checks for updates and package dependencies. (Forum page)

https://github.com/falconindy/cower || cower^AUR

pacaur — An AUR helper that minimizes user interaction. (Forum page)

https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur || pacaur^AUR

packer — Wrapper for pacman and the AUR. (Forum page)

https://github.com/keenerd/packer || packer^AUR

pbget — Retrieve source files from the Arch SVN and CVS web interface, the AUR, and the ABS rsync server.

http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pbget || pbget^AUR

PKGBUILDer — An AUR helper with dependency support written in Python 3.

https://github.com/Kwpolska/pkgbuilder || pkgbuilder^AUR

prm — An AUR and ABS helper.

https://git.fleshless.org/prm/ || PKGBUILD

spinach — An AUR helper written in Bash

http://floft.net/wiki/Scripts/Spinach || spinach^AUR

trizen — A wrapper for the AUR written in Perl.

https://github.com/trizen/trizen || trizen^AUR

wrapaur — A pacman and AUR wrapper written in bash.

|| wrapaur^AUR

yaah — Yet another AUR helper

https://bitbucket.org/the_metalgamer/yaah || yaah^AUR

yaourt — A wrapper for the AUR and regular packages.

http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en || yaourt^AUR

Maintenance

pkgbuild-watch — Looks for changes on the upstream web pages

http://kmkeen.com/pkgbuild-watch || pkgbuild-watch^AUR

pkgbuildup — Helps AUR package maintainers automatically update PKGBUILD files. Supports a template variable syntax.

https://github.com/fasheng/pkgbuildup || pkgbuildup-git^AUR

pkgcheck — Uses rules in PKGBUILDs to parse upstream version information or looks for changes by checksumming the web page

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162816 || Repository: GitHub

pkgoutofdate — Parses the source URL from PKGBUILDs and tries to find new versions of packages by incrementing the version number and sending requests to the web server

https://github.com/anatol/pkgoutofdate || pkgoutofdate-git^AUR

Libraries

haskell-archlinux — Library to access the AUR and package metadata from the Haskell programming language

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/archlinux || haskell-archlinux^AUR

python3-aur — Python 3 modules for accessing AUR package information and automating AUR interactions.

http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/python3-aur || python3-aur^AUR

Graphical

Aarchup — Fork of archup. Has the same options as archup plus a few other features. For differences between both please check changelog.

https://github.com/aericson/aarchup/ || aarchup^AUR

Argon — Graphical frontend of pacaur, featuring package installation, removal, and updating; and update notifications for both official repository and AUR packages.

https://github.com/14mRh4X0r/arch-argon || argon^AUR

PkgBrowser — Application for searching and browsing Arch packages, showing details on selected packages.

https://bitbucket.org/kachelaqa/pkgbrowser/wiki/Home || pkgbrowser^AUR

kalu — Small C application that adds an icon in the systray and can show notifications for Arch Linux News, Upgrades, AUR upgrades, and watched (AUR) upgrades (upgrades for packages not installed). Also includes a GUI system upgrader.

https://github.com/jjk-jacky/kalu || kalu^AUR (or kalu-kde^AUR for auto-hide in KDE's panel)

Comparison table

The columns have the following meaning:

Secure: does not source, by default, the PKGBUILD at all, or, before doing so, reminds the user and offers him the opportunity to inspect it manually. Some helpers are known to source PKGBUILDs before the user can inspect them, allowing malicious code to be executed. Optional means that there is a command line flag or configuration option to prevent the automatic sourcing before viewing.
Clean build: does not export new variables that can prevent a successful build process.
Reliable parser: ability to handle complex packages by using the provided metadata (RPC/.SRCINFO) instead of PKGBUILD parsing, such as aws-cli^AUR.
Reliable solver: ability to correctly solve and build complex dependency chains, such as plasma-git-meta^AUR.
Split packages: ability to correctly build and install split packages independently, such as python-nikola^AUR.
Git clone: uses git clones instead of downloading tarballs (deprecated since AUR 4).
Syntax: P stands for Pacman-like, S for specific.

Name	Written In	Secure	Clean build	Reliable parser	Reliable solver	Split packages	Git clone	Shell completion	Syntax	Specificity
apacman	Bash	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	None	P	Fork of packer
aura	Haskell	Yes	Yes	No [1]	No	No [2]	No	bash/zsh	P	Backup, downgrade, ABS and powerpill support, multilingual
aurel	Emacs Lisp	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	No	N/A	S	Emacs integration, no automatic builds
aurget	Bash	Optional	Yes	No	No	No [3]	No	bash/zsh	P	-
aurutils	Bash/C	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	zsh	S	tsort, PCRE, local repository, systemd-nspawn support
bauerbill	Python3	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	bash/zsh	P/S	Trust management, ABS support, extends Powerpill
burgaur	Python3/C	Optional, with mc	Yes	No	No	No	No	None	P	Wrapper for cower
cower	C	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	No	bash/zsh	S	No automatic builds, regex support
pacaur	Bash/C	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	bash/zsh	P/S	Minimizes user interaction, multilingual
packer	Bash	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	None	P	-
pbget	Python3	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	Yes	None	S	No automatic builds
PKGBUILDer	Python3	Optional	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partial [4]	Yes	None	P	Automatic builds by default, use `-F` to disable; multilingual
prm	Bash	Yes [5]	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	Yes	None	S	No automatic builds, ABS support
spinach	Bash	No [6]	Yes	No	No	No	No	None	S	-
trizen	Perl	Yes	Yes	Yes [7]	No	No	No	None	P	AUR comments
wrapaur	Bash	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	None	S	Mirror updates, print news and AUR comments
yaah	Bash	Yes	N/A	Yes	N/A	N/A	Optional	bash	S	No automatic builds
yaourt	Bash/C	No [8]	No [9]	No	No [10]	No [11]	Optional	bash/zsh/fish	P	Backup, ABS support, AUR comments, multilingual

Note: Pacman 4.2. introduced architecture specific fields. [12] However, as of 06 April 2016, AurJson combines all entries in a single field: FS#48796. Helpers relying on the RPC may use the below workarounds to retrieve dependencies:

bauerbill^AUR [13], pkgbuilder^AUR [14]: Retrieve specific fields from .SRCINFO
aurutils^AUR [15], pacaur^AUR [16], trizen^AUR [17]: Strip the lib32- prefix on i686 systems

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 | [https://github.com/ido/packages-archlinux/blob/master/bin/import-to-aur4.sh import-to-aur4]
 | Splits an existing git repository into multiple AUR 4 packages, all at once, including {{ic|.SRCINFO}} for every commit.
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+| [https://github.com/Edenhofer/abs/blob/master/aurpublish aurpublish]
+| Manage AUR packages as git subtree. It is a simple, yet capable script to upload git subtrees as packages to the aur. The [https://github.com/Edenhofer/abs/blob/master/pre-commit.hook generation of {{ic|.SRCINOF}} files, {{ic|PKGBUILD}} checking] and the [https://github.com/Edenhofer/abs/blob/master/prepare-commit-msg.hook creation of a per package commit message template] is left to the git hooks in the same [https://github.com/Edenhofer/abs/blob/master/README.md repo].
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