repkg

A tool to manage rebuilding of AUR packages based on their dependencies.

Features

The general idea is: For an AUR package foo, that depends on bar, you always want to rebuild foo everytime bar is update. This tool makes this easily possible:

• Create rules for packages with other packages that will trigger a rebuild
  • system rules: System-wide rules, to work for any user
    • can be created by users and applications. This way packagers can provide the required dependencies, without actually depending on this package (i.e. opt depend)
  • user rules: created by the user, can override system rules. Only work when sudoing as that user
• Pacman hook to detect packages that need a rebuild after an update
  • works recursivly, i.e. if A dependes on B and B on C, C will trigger B and A
• Automatic detection of successful rebuilds
• Works with any pacman frontend that supports the default pacman syntax
  • pacaur and yaourt work out of the box
  • other frontends can be set via a command

Installation

The tool is provides as AUR package: repkg

This repository also has a sample repkg rule for itself.

Usage

Users

As a user, you can create rules by calling:

repkg create <package> [dependencies...]

package is the AUR package that should be rebuild, when one of the given dependencies is updated to a newer versions. You can also create rules directly by creating a rule file in ~/.config/repkg/rules, with the package name beeing the filename (i.e. package.rule) and the content beeing the dependencies, space seperated.

When updating packages via pacman (or any frontend), rebuilds are automatically detected. You will see a message with all packages that need rebuilds at the end. You can also run

repkg list detail

to show all packages that need rebuilds.

To actually rebuild them, simply run

repkg

This will start the frontend of your choice (e.g. pacaur, yaourt, ...) and rebuild all required packages.

Package Providers

Simply add a rule file to your PKGBUILD, and install it to /etc/repkg/rules. Assuming your package is name my-pkg and should be rebuild when dep-a or dep-b is updated, the file must be named my-pkg.rule and contain:

dep-a dep-b

Add repkg as (optional) dependency, and your good to go.