Yay password timing out

General system
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I’m trying to update brave with yay. The process takes over an hour, then the password dialog times out when I doze off. In the past, I could just do the update again, and it’s already to go so no time out issue. However, with this package it starts from the beginning every time.

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Which Brave package did you install?

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:: 1 Packages to upgrade.
1  aur/brave  1.1.23-1 -> 1.2.43-1
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I remember I also had that problem with that particular package, it takes so long to build and compile. I know it is a sensitive issue with some users but have you tried the bin version?

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I’ll have a go at that. Is there anyway to deal with the password timeout in general?

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There seems to be a build time dependency issue. To get that right, you could report the issue at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave/.

Alternatively you might want to use another brave version from AUR, e.g. brave-bin, which (as far as I know) is already pre-built. There are other brave alternatives too, like brave-beta-bin.

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This regularly happens to me on an old machine which takes quite long to compile stuff.
In this case I usually just check if the program completely compiled; which is mostly the case. I then just install this compiled package by hand.

So, just search for your compiled package in ~/.cache
It should be named something like brave*.pkg.tar.xz

Install with
sudo pacman -U brave*.pkg.tar.xz

Usually, there’s no need to “start from the beginning every time”.

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seems brave-bin does update quicker then the compiling :slight_smile:

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When it comes to AUR, I always go with the one voted the most (if I come across multiple choices of the same app, getting a rough idea by reading some of the comments, too. In this case, Brave-bin is by far the most voted & have never had any kind of issues.

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Your tip just saved me hours of compiling ungoogled-chromium!
Thanks for that!

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Does ccache not help? If you already had one in the build cache

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It might, but what is ccache?

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if you something already build and you configured the cache properly it uses some stuf to build quicker…

it become faster later but hard to explain :slight_smile:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ccache

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Ah, I didn’t even try. I remembered this conversation here and went directly to ~/.cache as mentioned above.
I’ll try next time round…