Pacman 6.0 update breaks aur

General system Pacman
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Hi guys. Today pacman was upgraded to version 6 . Now I can’t access the aur anymore, as I had to remove yay to install the pacman update.
Any ideas how to access the aur now?
J.

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Are you running testing repo?

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I just did a partial upgrade & avoided the pacman packages…waiting to see how this shakes out. Not running the testing repo…

4

I just updated but i had to remove pamac first and then the update removed yay.

Edit: I’m not sure where i will go from here?

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No, I am not running testing.
J.

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Pamac is not installed here.
J.

7

Ouch…This reminds me of my Debian Testing days–Do a partial upgrade & wait…

Was able to do: yay -S python-setuptools appstream-glib libpackagekit-glib apache npm pcurses

That went just fine.

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I just reinstalled yay but I’ll have to wait on pamac. Not really needed anyway.

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Again: I haven’t installed pamac, but I have lost aur access compteletly
J.

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But i got errors now? :rage:

[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$ yay
[sudo] password for ricklinux: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 endeavouros_calamares is up to date
 kde-unstable is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 endeavouros is up to date
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/2ecdc980-a441-11eb-9472-4aa7efb66920?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20210601%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20210601T025829Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=6db6f6c98604cfb43fecf84cd51a881fa6cdadb006d8eba45dc37fc55a494780&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&key_id=0&repo_id=198104216&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dendeavouros_calamares.db&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream.sig.part: File name too long
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
:: Searching databases for updates...
:: Searching AUR for updates...
 there is nothing to do
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$
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File name is too long–try backing it up or rename it & try again?

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I don’t see that file in there. :thinking:

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Create a blank file name with some of the info?

14

I’m not understanding what you mean?

15

Maybe create a empty file that is:
2ecdc980-a441-11eb-9472-4aa7efb66920 with nothing in it?

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So like this?

sudo nano /var/lib/pacman/sync/2ecdc980-a441-11eb-9472-4aa7efb66920

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Worth a try…You might get past the error. Just delete it if it don’t work.

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Okay i removed the calamares repo and error gone. But i have one newer package which i can’t downgrade because i removed all the cache.

[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for ricklinux: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 kde-unstable is up to date
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 endeavouros is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: mkinitcpio-openswap: local (0.1.0-4) is newer than endeavouros (0.1.0-3)
 there is nothing to do
[ricklinux@eos-kde ~]$
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Well–I’ve got Grub from testing & get reminded every time that it’s newer than what I currently have available…So, I’m just waiting for the Stable branch to catch up.

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FWIW trizen helper works fine with pacman 6.0.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trizen/

To manually build if yay is borked.

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

Kiss yay / pamac goodbye!

:grin: