AUR Sync

README.md

aur-sync is a simple script to keep AUR packages up to date.

How to use it:

# 1. First you need to create some directories where the work will happen:
mkdir -p /tmp/aur-sync-ws
mkdir -p /tmp/aur-sync-ws/build
mkdir -p /tmp/aur-sync-ws/src
cd /tmp/aur-sync-ws

# 2. Write the AUR packages to be synced to a file
cat > aur-packages <<EOF
playerctl
telegram-bin
EOF

# 3. Run the aur-sync.sh script passing it the aur-packages file
./aur-sync.sh aur-packages

# The script will download, extract, build and install the latest version of those packages.
# Note: sudo password and pacman confirmation are required for each package update.

aur-package.example

chromium-pepper-flash
dropbox-cli
dropbox
google-talkplugin
libgcrypt15
playerctl
spotify
telegram-bin

aur-sync.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -eux

root_dir="$PWD"
PKGS=$(cat "${1:-aur-packages}")

for pkg in $PKGS; do
	# Return to root_dir
	cd "$root_dir"

	# Download package
	src_file="src/${pkg}.tar.gz"
	wget -O "$src_file" "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/${pkg:0:2}/${pkg}/${pkg}.tar.gz"

	# Extract it to build folder
	build_dir="build/${pkg}"
	if [ -d "$build_dir" ]; then
		echo "Cleaning build dir: ${build_dir}"
		rm -r "$build_dir"
	fi

	tar xvzf "$src_file" -C "build/" 

	# Build package
	cd "$build_dir"
	makepkg

	# Install package
	sudo pacman -U ${pkg}*.pkg.tar.xz
done