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apacman

ArchLinux User Repository (AUR) helper and pacman wrapper

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Forked from packer

Installation:

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

Documentation:

• man 8 apacman
• man 5 apacman.conf

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