yaah

A simple AUR client

Dennis "@the_metalgamer" Fink

18 March 2015

Table Contents

• AUR
• KISS
• Technical Details
• Usage
• Future

AUR

• Archlinux User Repository
• Packages provided by users
• Not officially supported
• Thus no official client
• Trust issue

KISS

• Keep it simple, stupid
• Wrapper around the AUR api
• No automatic build support
  • Make you comfortable with makepkg

AUR API

• search
• msearch
• info
• multiinfo

Technical details

• Written in bash
• curl, tar, pacman and jshon
• Secure (does not source PKGBUILDs)
• No pacman-like syntax

Tutorial

Future

• eyaah
  • Automatic download of updates (will maybe integrated into main yaah)
  • Automatic printout of other packages needed from the AUR
  • Separate shell script
• Using git clone for package downloads

Thank you for your attention!

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