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A small script for arch linux which builds and installs "pacaur" automatically
#!/usr/bin/bash -l
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# The MIT License (MIT)
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# Copyright (c) 2015-2017 Stefan Tatschner
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set -e
buildroot="$(mktemp -d)"
# Ask for user passwort once, see sudo(8).
sudo -v
# Make sure we can even build packages on arch linux.
sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm base-devel git
mkdir -p "$buildroot"
cd "$buildroot"
# Arch Linux ARM provides a cower package for the RPI!
# Let's either install 'cower' via pacman, or build it.
if [ "$(uname -n)" = 'alarmpi' ]; then
sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm cower
else
# Fetch Dave Reisner's key to be able to verify cower.
gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 487EACC08557AD082088DABA1EB2638FF56C0C53
git clone --depth=1 "https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git"
cd "${buildroot}/cower"
makepkg --syncdeps --install --noconfirm
fi
cd "$buildroot"
git clone --depth=1 "https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git"
cd "${buildroot}/pacaur"
makepkg --syncdeps --install --noconfirm
cd /
rm -rf "$buildroot"
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I somehow missed the notifications on the Gist. :/
Yeah, we could of course tweak the script a bit. I like your implementation using the loop and I would happily steal that. For git vs curl, it is just my personal taste... But yeah, git is required by pacaur anyway, so I think it does not make any difference.

@simnalamburt
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@rumpelsepp What about --depth=1! 😄

git clone "https://aur.archlinux.org/cower.git" --depth=1
git clone "https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git" --depth=1

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That's a suggestion which is definitely worth it. :D

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diginfo commented Jul 21, 2016

I can't run this script, I get the makepkg as root error:

==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is not allowed as it can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system

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rumpelsepp commented Aug 3, 2016

You can't build packages as root!! The errormessage describes the problem quite well:
http://allanmcrae.com/2015/01/replacing-makepkg-asroot/

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ghost commented Aug 31, 2016

For some reason pacaur is not getting cloned i had to manually clone it on tmp folder and run the script

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Erazx commented Sep 2, 2016

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Cloning into 'pacaur'...
remote: Counting objects: 104, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (82/82), done.
remote: Total 104 (delta 43), reused 77 (delta 22)
Receiving objects: 100% (104/104), 13.79 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (43/43), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
install_pacaur.sh: line 50: cd: /tmp/tmp.1kbLTL6AYh/pacaur: No such file or directory

Can't found pacaur directory in /tmp/

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mkodekar commented Sep 3, 2016

same as above

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ghost commented Sep 5, 2016

pacaur is getting cloned inside cower folder adding cd .. before git clone "https://aur.archlinux.org/pacaur.git" should solve the problem

@ianhattendorf
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Should be cd "$buildroot" || exit 1 just after the cower makepkg, still inside the if statement (could be after as well I guess). cd .. just before git clone will take you to /tmp on arm builds.

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Any ideas how I can get notifications in gist.github.com? I always miss you guys...

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The issue should be fixed.

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lumaku commented Feb 14, 2017

I had the error /bin/sh: pod2man: command not found. Executing the script with $ bash -l then worked.
It seems that the path variable is reset at some point. See here for a similar fix.

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rumpelsepp commented Mar 10, 2017

Strange. I fixed it accordingly; since I use debian now I cannot test it. So, I hope nothing else breaks. :D

@dsifford
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@rumpelsepp Gave this a go today and it's working just fine 👍

@mickael9
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I think sudo pacman -S cower also should have the flags --needed --noconfirm

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