yay

Changelog

• Drop conflicting arguments

  • -P --print renamed to -P --show
  • -g --config renamed to -g --currentconfig

• don't overwrite directories with -G by default

  • can be forced with -Gf

• --aururl can be used to set the AUR url to use

  • https://aur.archlinux.org by default

• Fixes, fixes, fixes

• Documentation updates

• Completion updates

• PKGBUILD retrieval is now done in parallel

• Gendb is now done in parallel

• Devel update sourcing should be more accurate

• --option=x is format for options is now supported

• Bash completions optimized to reduce lag from package completion list

Changelog

Features

• Reworked shell completions for extra speed
  • cache is updated on package installs concurrently so as to have no impact on completion speed
  • -Pc prints completion list
  • -Pcc forces completion cache to be refreshed
  • -Pcf has been removed
  • --completioninterval can be used to change interval between automatic cache refresh
  • .cache/yay/aur_fish.cache and .cache/yay/aur_sh.cache are safe to delete
• yay now waits for pacman lock if it's present before continuing
• New wrapped operation -Sp, repo only for now
• -Si information has been extended to include Keywords, AUR URL, Groups, First Submitted, Last Modified.
• -Sii information has been extended to include ID, Package Base ID, Package Base, Snapshot URL
• -Sc now supports --aur and --repo constraints

GNU/Flags

• --[no]makepkgconf can be used to set or unset a makepkg.conf location to use

• Remove make

  • --removemake will remove make dependencies after install
  • --noremovemake will not remove make dependencies after install
  • --askremovemake will ask you if you want to remove make dependencies after install

• Typical refactoring, bug fixes and trying to squeeze juice out of yay

Changelog

• Fix group installs in nocombinedupgrade
• github.com/Morganamilo/go-srcinfo is the new srcinfo parser for yay

Changelog

Major version bump to mark native pacman compatibility and the
separation of combined upgrade

• Native pacman compatible
• Separate repo and AUR upgrade for partial-upgrade concerns https://github.com/Jguer/yay/commit/3bdb5343218d99d40f8a449b887348611f6bdbfc.
  • Reenable with --combinedupgrade --save
• Support commas in yogurt parsing
• New flags

--useask              Automatically resolce conflicts using pacman's ask flag
--nouseask            Confirm conflicts manually during the install
--combinedUpgrade     Refresh then perform the repo and AUR upgrade together
--nocombinedUpgrade   Perform the repo upgrade and AUR upgrade separately

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