Showing updates with yaourt not working as expected

[raphaelrochet]

Showing updates with yaourt not working as expected

[RaphaelRochet]

The command is right; if you replace /usr/bin/checkupdates by /usr/bin/yaourt -Qqu -a you should have both AUR and regular repos updates.

Does /usr/bin/yaourt -Qqu -a shows updates in a terminal ?

[skogsmaskin]

Today it worked and notified me about a community-package. Not sure why it did not yesterday. Maybe bacause the widget was restarted through a reboot after I changed the settings?

Seems to work now though. Closing this ticket. Thank you for your kind reply.

[skogsmaskin]

Hmm..Closed it too early. It notified me about a community package this morning and I thought it was allright. But not about the regular packages (non-AUR) that came this afternoon.

In order to make it check for both regular packages and AUR-packages I had to do it with this command:

/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates &> /dev/null && /usr/bin/yaourt -Qu -a"

It updates and syncs the regular package list with checkupdates first (which uses fakeroot). Then it lists those packages + updates and shows the list of any new packages in the AUR with yaourt afterwards.

[RaphaelRochet]

You're right, yaourt works like pacaur, and shows only AUR updates with -a flag. Sorry I've should have check that before. (I did not test AUR support myself)
But your command does not list non-AUR packages. You should not ignore checkupdates output, instead chain both scripts :
/bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/checkupdates ; /usr/bin/yaourt -Qqu -a"
If this works I will update the wiki.

[skogsmaskin]

Yaourt also shows pending regular packages (after the sync with checkupdates). That is why I had to silence checkupdates - otherwise I would get double.

[RaphaelRochet]

Sounds strange. Checkupdates does not store anything after it's run.
Yaourt shows regular updates only if system databases are updated (with -Syu flag)

If you continue to ignore checkupdates output, you will not see new updates until you run yaourt -Syu.

[skogsmaskin]

checkupdates does two things:

fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/$
pacman -Qu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" 2> /dev/null | grep -v '\[.*\]'

As far as I could tell my command worked, but I may be wrong. It is very hard to test, as I have to wait for new packages to arrive :)

[RaphaelRochet]

Yes. But the db in $CHECKUPDATES_DB is not read by subsequent yaourt calls. (I mean the newly sync data part)

[skogsmaskin]

I have added your command to test. We have to wait and see. ⌚

[skogsmaskin]

I can confirm that your suggested command is the right one. The reason I got it double was because I did yaourt -Suy --aur in between.

[RaphaelRochet]

Ok thanks for the feedback. I'll update the wiki.
Edit : wiki updated 😄

[skogsmaskin]

Closing this then :)