README.md

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

Frequently Asked Questions

• Yay does not display colored output. How do I fix it?
  Make sure you have the Color option in your /etc/pacman.conf #123

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 -G downloads PKGBUILD from ABS or AUR
• yay -Y --gendb generates development package DB used for devel updates.

Changelog

v5.608

• Updated Shell completions
• Added -Qu to extended pacman options
• Provides now supported in -Si
• Improved build method
• Improved conflict checking
• PKGBUILDs with unsupported arch can force build now
• PGP Key automatic importing
• GPG option passing
• db/name support readded

4.505

• yay used to auto save permanent configuration options, now --save must be passed to save permanent configuration options
• Competions updated
• Number menu is now used to edit PKGBuilds and Clean Builds
• Devel updates of -git packages now uses git ls-remote which makes it compatible with other platforms besides github.
• Devel update checking is faster as well
• Updated man page

3.440

• Closed a lot of issues
• Updated bash and zsh completions
• New colour scheme
• Small parsing fixes
• Automatically delete package from transaction if $EDITOR exits with non-zero #140
• Added check depends support

3.373

• Version bump to V3 to reflect all of the changes to syntax
• yay -Pd prints default config
• yay -Pg prints current config
• Fixes #174
• Fixes #176
• Fixes -G being unable to download split packages
• Fixes #171
• Fixes -Si failing when given a non existing package on https://github.com/Jguer/yay/pull/155
• Fixes other small bugs on 2.350 without adding new features

2.350

• Adds sudo loop (off by default, enable only by editing config file) #147
• Adds replace package support #154 #134
• Minor display improvements #150 for example
• Fixes GenDB
• Fixes Double options passing to pacman
• Noconfirm works more as expected
• Minor fixes and refactoring
• Yay filters out the repository name if it's included.
• Fixes #122

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