burgaur

A delicious AUR helper. Made from cower.

Author

thiagokokada@gmail.com

Date

2018-10-20

Copyright

Thiago Kenji Okada

Version

2.3

Manual section

1

Manual group

system

SYSNOPSIS

burgaur [OPTIONS]... [COMMANDS]...

DESCRIPTION

Burgaur is an AUR helper based on and strictly a superset of cower. It automates boring tasks that in cower you need to do by hand, like updating all your AUR system packages, or installing a new package from AUR including its dependencies.

It doesn't try to be everything (i.e. yaourt). Instead, it simply assumes that there is already a better tool to do some job and only tries to complement other tools.

It also has a better behavior with multiple packages than most AUR helpers, based on the behavior of pacaur. Basically, instead of the traditional "review one package, build one package, install one package, rinse and repeat", burgaur does the following:

• Review everything
• Lean back
• Build everything
• Install everything

This can speed up things considerably when you're building large packages or a great number of them.

OPTIONS

optional arguments

-h, --help show this help message and exit

--cower-raw-options OPTIONS pass arguments directly to cower,

no sanity check, may break things

--noconfirm skip confirmation prompts during install

process, passed to pacman/makepkg too, may be unsafe

--nodelete do not remove temporary build directory

after install

--noinstall do not install packages after build,

assume '--nodelete'

--nobuild do not build packages,

assume '--nodelete' and '--noinstall'

-c, --color WHEN use colored output. WHEN is 'never',

'always' or 'auto' (default)

--version show program's version number and exit

update

-fu, --force-update TARGET update TARGET unconditionally

-su, --system-update update all AUR packages

install

-mi, --make-install PACKAGE make and install package from AUR, including

dependencies

-si, --search-install TARGET list all packages with target name and let

user choose which ones to install

CONFIGURATION

All configuration is done by setting environmental variables.

• BURGAUR_TARGET_DIR: set temporary directory for building packages (default: /var/tmp).
• BURGAUR_FILE_MANAGER: set desired file manager to verify packages before building it (default: mc).

EXAMPLES

Update all AUR packages

$ burgaur -su

Force-update all packages that contain '-git'

$ burgaur -fu=-git  # The equals (=) is necessary because of the dash (-)

Force-update a package

$ burgaur -fu burgaur-git

Install a package

$ burgaur -mi package

For problematic packages, you can temporarily change the package build directory (by default, on /var/tmp) and keep the resulting files for later use using:

$ BURGAUR_TARGET_DIR=mydir burgaur -mi package --nodelete

Or if you just want to build a package but not install it:

$ BURGAUR_TARGET_DIR=mydir burgaur -mi package --noinstall

Search (and install) with cower

$ burgaur -si "partial description"

SEE ALSO

• cower <https://github.com/falconindy/cower>
• makepkg <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg>

BUGS

Please report bugs to GitHub <https://github.com/m45t3r/burgaur/issues>.