Pakka

#+TITLE: Pakka #+AUTHOR: Sidharth Arya [[http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pakka][file:https://img.shields.io/aur/version/pakka.svg]] [[http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pakka][file:https://img.shields.io/aur/license/pakka.svg]] [Currently Experimental]

A simple bash based AUR helper for Arch Linux.

• Introduction Pakka? is an indian way of asking "Are you sure?". Perhaps I am asking to the users are you sure you want to use this :P Pakka tries to achieve maximum customization for the user.

• Goals My goal with this package is to create a very very flexible and customizable AUR helper written purely in bash in as minimum lines of code as possible.

Adding more lines of code for good features will always be appreciated though.

What do I eventually want?

• [ ] Ability to override already existing AUR makefiles with your own, or patching them to suit your use case.
• [ ] Ability to easily patch the source without the need for explicitely having patch codes in the aur makefiles
• [ ] Eventually move to per block diffs for customizing AUR PKGBUILD's
• [ ] Become a pacman complient AUR wrapper
• [ ] Create a highly reproducible Arch Linux

• Lacking Features

• [X] Searching the AUR database
• [ ] Dependency Resolution (To be specific, AUR dependency resolution)
• [ ] Autocleaning build directory
• [ ] Check whether the current package version is already installed

• Getting Started Download the pakka script and place it in your PATH. #+begin_src bash curl --output ~/.local/bin/pakka https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SidharthArya/pakka/master/pakka chown +x ~/.local/bin/pakka #+end_src ** Installing Packages #+begin_src bash pakka -S st dwm #+end_src ** Searching Packages #+begin_src bash pakka -s paru #+end_src ** Updating Packages #+begin_src bash pakka -Su st

#+end_src Incase you just want to build the package you can just run the script with curl #+begin_src bash curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SidharthArya/pakka/master/pakka | bash -s st dwm #+end_src

• Configuration Pakka reads ~~/.config/pakka/config~ file and sources it for environment variables. Not much is implemented for configuration at the moment. You can only define a ~CACHEDIR~ variable as ~CACHEDIR=~/.cache/pakka~. In any case that would default to the same location.

Then you have a ~~/.config/pakka/Packages~, which is intended to store a list of default packages you may want to install. Running ~pakka~ without any package name should install all the packages in Packages file.

** Overrides Overrides are files present in the folder ~~/.config/overrides/package-name~ *** srccopy This override will copy files as it is to your aur package snapshot.

*** srcpatch This override will patch your aur package snapshot directory. *** copy This override will copy files as it is to the package source directory. *** patch This override will patch your package source directory. ** Example https://github.com/SidharthArya/pakka-config

• Contributing I am looking for people to help me develop this script really well. Feel free to open pull requests and issues for various things you want to see implemented in pakka.