yay

Changelog

• Correctly handle AUR providers during noconfirm

Changelog

• New provides menu

• By default --diffmenu and --cleanmenu is used

• Yay verbosity is controlled by configuration now

• New dependencies resolver

• Changes to install and package get order

• Repo only or AUR only operation is possible with (--repo and --aur/-a)

• New flags

  - aur           Assume targets from AUR
  - repo          Assume targets from repo

  - cleanmenu     Give the option to clean build PKGBUILDS
  - diffmenu      Give the option to show diffs for build files
  - editmenu      Give the option to edit/view PKGBUILDS
  - upgrademenu   Show a detailed list of updates with the option to skip any
  - nocleanmenu   Dont clean build PKGBUILDS
  - nodiffmenu    Dont show diffs for build files
  - noeditmenu    Dont edit/view PKGBUILDS
  - noupgrademenu Dont show the upgrade menu
  - answerdiff    Default answer to diff
  - answeredit    Default answer to edit
  - answerupgrade Default answer to edit

  - provides      Look for matching provders when searching for packages
  - noprovides    Just look for packages by pkgname
  - pgpfetch      Prompt to import PGP keys from PKGBUILDs
  - nopgpfetch    Dont prompt to import PGP keys

Changelog

• Fix overflow on armv7h #435

This release may require manual action to install since libalpm 11.0 is required to build yay 6.784

yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
You need to update your pacman version to 5.1 and follow the manual install steps:

yay-bin - Compiled on my computer (No Build time dependencies)

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin
makepkg -si

yay - Compiled on your computer (Build time dependencies and compile time)

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

Changelog

• Support for pacman 5.1, libalpm 11.0
• Correct error codes on missing packages

Changelog

• News printing
  • -Pw prints new news since last build date
  • -Pww prints all news available
  • -q --quiet can be added to print only news titles
  • -Pwq prints new news titles since last build date
• Completions update
• Print warnings about newer local packages then remote versions #396
• Usual small fixes to commands,filepaths and refactoring

Changelog

• Fix custom build dir failing by not existing
• Fix small bug in parser

Changelog

• Git clone used for PKGBUILD retrieval
• yay -Sc will also clean cached AUR package and any untracked files in the cache
  • Provided you use git clone
• Changes to interface color
• Highlight diff between old and new versions better
• Better handling of filepaths
• Usual fixes for wrong package installs and repo selection
• Really a lot of bugfixes
• Updated Shell completions

Changelog

• Recursively remove dependencies when using yay -Yc
• Highlight diff between old and new versions better
• Fix regression where repo upgrades were marked as deps during sysupgrades
• Added --editorflags to add flags to editor execution

Changelog

• By default running yay will trigger yay -Syu
• Updated Shell completions
• -Ss shows difference between installed and in-repo versions
• Allow sorting AUR results by fields other than votes
  *--sortby votes|popularity|id|baseid|name|base|submitted|modified
• Added flags for automatic menu input
  • --answerclean --answeredit --answerupgrade
  • --noanswerclean --noansweredit --noanswerupgrade
• Fixed versioned dep checking
• Usual fixes to parsing, dependency sourcing and other PKGBUILD atrocities

Changelog

• Updated Shell completions
• Added -Qu to extended pacman options
• Provides now supported in -Si
• Improved build method
• Improved conflict checking
• PKGBUILDs with unsupported arch can force build now
• PGP Key automatic importing
• GPG option passing
• db/name support readded

Manual steps

Due to the new devel update method a yay -Y --gendb is necessary to rebuild the development package database and track new devel updates.

Present Regressions

• In installs of type yay -S aur/yay aur/ is not ignored.

Changelog

• New flag extravaganza

Permanent configuration options:
    --save               Causes the following options to be saved back to the
                         config file when used

    --builddir <dir>     Directory to use for building AUR Packages
    --editor   <file>    Editor to use when editing PKGBUILDs
    --makepkg  <file>    makepkg command to use
    --pacman   <file>    pacman command to use
    --tar      <file>    bsdtar command to use
    --git      <file>    git command to use
    --config   <file>    pacman.conf file to use

    --requestsplitn <n>  Max amount of packages to query per AUR request

    --topdown            Shows repository's packages first and then AUR's
    --bottomup           Shows AUR's packages first and then repository's
    --devel              Check development packages during sysupgrade
    --nodevel            Do not check development packages
    --afterclean         Remove package sources after successful install
    --noafterclean       Do not remove package sources after successful build
    --timeupdate         Check package's AUR page for changes during sysupgrade
    --notimeupdate       Do not checking of AUR page changes
    --redownload         Always download pkgbuilds of targets
    --redownloadall      Always download pkgbuilds of all AUR packages
    --noredownload       Skip pkgbuild download if in cache and up to date
    --mflags <flags>     Pass arguments to makepkg
    --sudoloop           Loop sudo calls in the background to avoid timeout
    --nosudoloop         Do not loop sudo calls in the background

• yay used to auto save permanent configuration options, now --save must be passed to save permanent configuration options
• Competions updated
• Number menu is now used to edit PKGBuilds and Clean Builds
• Devel updates of -git packages now uses git ls-remote which makes it compatible with other platforms besides github.
• Devel update checking is faster as well
• Updated man page

No new features in this maintenance release

Changelog

• Closed a lot of issues
• Updated bash and zsh completions
• New colour scheme
• Small parsing fixes
• Automatically delete package from transaction if $EDITOR exits with non-zero #140
• Added check depends support

Compiled without PIE enabled.

Changelog

• Version bump to V3 to reflect all of the changes to syntax
• yay -Pd prints default config
• yay -Pg prints current config
• Fixes #174
• Fixes #176
• Fixes -G being unable to download split packages
• Fixes #171
• Fixes -Si failing when given a non existing package on https://github.com/Jguer/yay/pull/155
• Fixes other small bugs on 2.350 without adding new features

Probably stabler than the last stable but not really stable edition

14 files changed, 566 insertions(+), 186 deletions(-)
The binary was compiled with PIE enabled, the next release will be compiled with PIE disabled again.

Changelog

• Adds sudo loop (off by default, enable only by editing config file) #147
• Adds replace package support #154 #134
• Minor display improvements #150 for example
• Fixes GenDB
• Fixes Double options passing to pacman
• Noconfirm works more as expected
• Minor fixes and refactoring

Changelog

• Really fixes #122

Changelog

• Yay filters out the repository name if it's included.
  Example: yay -S aur/xst-git installs xst-git
• Fixes #122

Changelog

• New argument parsing @Morganamilo (check manpage or --help for new
  information)
• yay -Qstats changed to yay -Ps or yay -P --stats
• yay -Cd changed to yay -Yc or yay -Y --clean
• yay -Pu (--upgrades) prints update list
• yay -Pn (--numberupgrades) prints number of updates
• yay -G also possible through -Yg or -Y --getpkgbuild (yay -G will be
  discontinued once it's possible to add options to the getpkgbuild operation)
• yay now counts from 1 instead of 0 @Morganamilo
• Support for ranges when selecting packages @samosaara
• Pacaur style ask all questions first and download first @Morganamilo
• Updated vendor dependencies (Fixes pacman.conf parsing errors and PKGBUILD
  parsing errors)
• Updated completions

Changelog

• Fixed man page auto indentation

Changelog

• Updated manpage
• Updated --help
• Fixed AUR update fails with large number of packages #59
• Check if package is already in upgrade list and skip it. #60
• Add -V and -h for flag parsing @AnthonyLam
• Prevent file corruption by truncating the files @maximbaz
• Print VCS error details @maximbaz
• Using '-' doesn't raise an error @PietroCarrara
• use Command.Dir in aur.PkgInstall; Fixes #32 #47 @afg984
• Suffix YayConf.BuildDir with uid to avoid permission issues @afg984 (Not included in last changelog)

Changelog

• Fixes overaggressive file permissions of the last published version.
  • In case of error: EOF on yay init, try changing your config file permissions to 0644.