pikaur -Sla fails with pacman: invalid option

[br-olf]

pikaur -Vq
Pikaur v1.18.4
Pacman v6.1.0 - libalpm v14.0.0 - pyalpm v0.10.6

Description:

I wanted to build a package search script for AUR similar to the command mentioned in the arch wiki.
see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Browsing_packages

I don't want to use -Ss because its very slow and unnecessary in my case but -Sl does not list any AUR packages. So I looked up the help for -S and tried -Sla and got an error from pacman. I think listing all packages should include the AUR packages when using pikaur and I also think -Sla should be a possibility in pikaur.

Attached log:

 % pikaur -Sla
pacman: invalid option -- 'a'

% pikaur -Sla --verbose --pikaur-debug

:: debug: main_1000: Setting stdout to utf-8...
:: debug: main_1000: already set - nothing to do
:: debug: main_1000: Setting stderr to utf-8...
:: debug: main_1000: already set - nothing to do
:: debug: main_1000: Pikaur operation not found for args: ['/usr/bin/pikaur', '-Sla', '--verbose', '--pikaur-debug']
:: debug: main_1000: PikaurArgs(positional=[], sync=True, query=None, database=None, files=None, remove=None, deptest=None, upgrade=None, version=None, pkgbuild=None, getpkgbuild=None, groups=None, downloadonly=None, quiet=False, search=None, help=None, verbose=True, debug=None, noconfirm=None, needed=False, list=True, aur=True, keepbuild=False, keepbuilddeps=False, repo=None, noedit=False, edit=None, rebuild=None, skip_failed_build=False, dynamic_users=False, hide_build_log=None, skip_aur_pull=None, namesonly=False, nodiff=False, ignore_outofdate=False, print_commands=True, pikaur_debug=True, print_args_and_exit=None, refresh=0, clean=0, sysupgrade=0, info=0, nodeps=0, devel=0, ignore=[], ignoregroup=None, overwrite=None, assume_installed=None, color=None, dbpath=None, root=None, arch=None, cachedir=None, config=None, gpgdir=None, hookdir=None, logfile=None, print_format=None, home_dir=None, xdg_cache_home=None, xdg_config_home=None, xdg_data_home=None, preserve_env='PKGDEST,VISUAL,EDITOR,http_proxy,https_proxy,ftp_proxy,HTTP_PROXY,HTTPS_PROXY,FTP_PROXY,ALL_PROXY', mflags=None, makepkg_config=None, makepkg_path=None, pikaur_config=None, build_gpgdir='', privilege_escalation_target='pikaur', aur_clone_concurrency=None, user_id=0, unknown_args=[], raw=['-Sla', '--verbose', '--pikaur-debug'])
=> pacman -Sla --verbose
pacman: invalid option -- 'a'
:: debug: main_1000: Restoring stdout...
:: debug: main_1000: nothing to do
:: debug: main_1000: Restoring stderr...
:: debug: main_1000: nothing to do

[br-olf]

My current fix is to use curl -s "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz" | gunzip instead but I still think pikaur should cache this file locally.

Anyways, thanks for the great tool :)