Feature packed AUR helper
Paru v2.0.0 comes after a long time of no releases, mostly due to a lack of free time and a lot of changes that needed a lot of work to get done.
This update brings a lot of big changes, mostly aimed at power users, and a handul of general improvements and quality of life changes.
As there's not been a release in so long, consider a lot of the things here not battle tested, with a .1 patch to follow.
This changelog won't include minor changes as there are a lot.
The main feature of this release is properly integrating non aur pkgbuilds into the build engine. You can now add pkgbuild repos to your paru.conf in the form of:
[repo_name]
Url = https://path/to/git/repo
Then syncing the repo with paru -Sy --pkgbuilds.
You can also specify 'Path =' instead to point to a pkgbuild repo on disk.
paru will then recognise this repo as a source of pkgbuilds just like the AUR.
paru -S foo
pkgbuild repos have a higher priority than the AUR so this can also be used to shadow AUR packages with your own pkgbuilds. The deps of these pkgbuilds can still include AUR deps.
There is also an automatic pkgbuild repo named . in the current directory. Essentionally
there's an invisible:
[.]
Path = .
in your paru.conf.
This allows doing paru -S ./foo where foo is the name of a package (not path) under the
current directory. this means if you have a bunch of pkgbuilds in a directory that depend on
each other you can build one with paru -S ./foo and paru will solve and build the dependencies
across pkgbuilds.
Previously paru -U could be used to build a pkgbuild in the current directory. This has been
renamed to paru -B <dirs>... allowing you to specify multiple pkgbuilds to build at once.
See paru.conf(5) for more information on this.
--chroot now works without local repos, though it still works better with them.
paru foo has always been there for interactive search and install. There is now --interactive
which works for other operations.
paru foo is an alias for paru -S --interactive foo
paru -R --interactive foo can be used for an interactive remove.paru -Ss/-Qs --interactive foo will give an interactive prompt then print the chosen packages so they can be piped to other commands.Provide searching is now better and is now enabled in the default paru.conf. You probably want to uncomment this option if you have an existing paru.conf.
Thanks to every one who has contributed code and translations for paru. And thanks to every one who has decided to sponsor the project.
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