Always get the PKGBUILD from trunk, not from repos

[kiufta]

When I use yay on a package from ABS e.g. yay -G haskell-glob I'll get

.
├── repos
│   └── community-x86_64
│       └── PKGBUILD
└── trunk
    └── PKGBUILD

I'd be satisfied with a single PKGBUILD. How do I advice yay to ignore any other sources than trunk?

The behavior of yay -Gp is great, not giving me a tree of PKGBUILDs.

Thanks in advance!

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[tchaudhry91]

Hi, I'm working on a PR for this.
A couple of questions:

1. For getting only the trunk, is it the same as downloading from HTTP (like in -Gp) and forego git completely? Because I don't see a method of checking out only specific files via git.
2. Is concurrent check-out still worthwhile in this case like in the git repos download?

[Jguer]

Hey @tchaudhry91 , thanks for taking a look at this

1. if you use HTTP you'll miss extra files that might be needed to build the package (.patch files in the pkgbuild repo)

2. concurrency is not a priority

[tchaudhry91]

@Jguer
Okay then I could probably re-use the existing cloning mechanism (so, concurrency is question is moot anyway).
But the only way I see to achieve this is, clone and the "clean" the cloned repo.

• Clone per usual
• Remove everything other than trunk
• Move everything from trunk to directory root
• Remove trunk
• Remove .git (because we've mutilated the clone anyway)

I almost have this bit done. Will add a PR soon, can rework it if needed.

The other option is to do a sparse checkout (but that still downloads the whole repository, just restricts the checkout from what I can tell) and will need a bunch of chained git commands instead of a single clone. In general it seems more hassle than required.

If there is any other suggestion, let me know.

[Jguer]

There is an alternative fancy way that was implemented at some point but then reverted for some reason.

1. clone repo to yay cache
2. ln -s the trunk to the wanted directory

when the user tries to fetch the same package, you fetch/merge the upstream to the local cache (how yay does for AUR installs and link it again

🤷 try it out if you want

[Jguer]

Closing with mirror changes