yay

Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go

Packages

There's a point in everyone's life when you feel the need to write an AUR helper because there are only about 20 of them. So say hi to 20+1.

Yay was created with a few objectives in mind and based on the design of yaourt and apacman:

Have almost no dependencies.
Provide an interface for pacman.
Have yaourt like search.
Minimize user input
Know when git packages are due for an upgrade.

Features

AUR Tab completion
Download PKGBUILD from ABS or AUR
Ask all questions first and then start building
Search narrowing (yay linux header will first search linux and then narrow on header)
No sourcing of PKGBUILD is done
The binary has no dependencies that pacman doesn't already have.
Sources build dependencies
Removes make dependencies at the end of build process

Example of Custom Operations

yay <Search Term> presents package selection menu
yay -Ps prints system statistics
yay -Pu prints update list
yay -Yc cleans unneeded dependencies
yay -Yg yay -g downloads PKGBUILD from ABS or AUR
yay -Y --gendb generates development package DB used for devel updates.

Changelog

2.298

Adds #115

2.296

New argument parsing @Morganamilo (check manpage or --help for new information)
yay -Qstats changed to yay -Ps or yay -P --stats
yay -Cd changed to yay -Yc or yay -Y --clean
yay -Pu (--upgrades) prints update list
yay -Pn (--numberupgrades) prints number of updates
yay -G also possible through -Yg or -Y --getpkgbuild (yay -G will be discontinued once it's possible to add options to the getpkgbuild operation)
yay now counts from 1 instead of 0 @Morganamilo
Support for ranges when selecting packages @samosaara
Pacaur style ask all questions first and download first @Morganamilo
Updated vendor dependencies (Fixes pacman.conf parsing errors and PKGBUILD parsing errors)
Updated completions

2.219

Updated manpage
Updated --help
Fixed AUR update fails with large number of packages #59
Check if package is already in upgrade list and skip it. #60
Add -V and -h for flag parsing @AnthonyLam
Prevent file corruption by truncating the files @maximbaz
Print VCS error details @maximbaz
Using '-' doesn't raise an error @PietroCarrara
use Command.Dir in aur.PkgInstall; Fixes #32 #47 @afg984
Suffix YayConf.BuildDir with uid to avoid permission issues @afg984 (Not included in last changelog)

2.200

Development github package support readded

2.196

XDG_CONFIG_HOME support
XDG_CACHE_HOME support

2.165

Upgrade list now allows skipping upgrade install

2.159

Qstats now warns about packages not available in AUR

2.152

Fetching backend changed to Mikkel Oscar's Aur
Added support for development packages from github.
Pacman backend rewritten and simplified
Added config framework.

1.115

Added AUR completions (updates on first completion every 48h)

1.101

Search speed and quality improved #3

1.100

Added manpage
Improved search #3
Added -G to get pkgbuild from the AUR or ABS. #6
Fixed #8
Completed and decluttered zsh completions
If $EDITOR or $VISUAL is not set yay will prompt you for an editor #7

1.91

--downtop has been replaced with --bottomup (as is logical)
yay -Ssq and yay -Sqs now displays AUR packages with less information
Repository search now uses the same criteria as pacman

1.85

yay now does -Si for AUR packages
Fixed package install bugs

1.83

Added new dependency resolver for future features
Sort package statistics

1.80

yay now warns when installing orphan packages
Added orphan status to number menu
Qstats now checks if system has orphan packages installed

1.78

Added foreign package statistics to Qstats
Group installing is now possible
Better handling of package dependency installing

1.76

Fixed critical bug that prevented AUR dependencies from being installed.

1.70

Stable for everyday use
Bottom up package display
Number menu like yaourt/apacman
System package statistics

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