yay Delete Edit

Preinstall steps

• install base-devel is needed for compiling
  • sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel;
• adjust makepkg threads to be dynamic
  • sudo sed -i "s/#MAKEFLAGS=\"-j2\"/MAKEFLAGS=\"-j\${nproc}\"/" /etc/makepkg.conf
• fix makepkg options, disable debug packages
  • sudo sed -i 's/^OPTIONS=.*/OPTIONS=(strip docs !libtool !staticlibs emptydirs zipman purge !debug lto)/' /etc/makepkg.conf

Installing

cd /tmp
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay-bin.git
cd yay-bin
makepkg -si --noconfirm
yay -Y --devel --answerclean a --answerdiff n --removemake --cleanafter  --save

If replacing another AUR helper

Use yay -Y --gendb to generate a development package database for *-git packages that were installed without yay. This command should only be run once.

Source: https://github.com/Jguer/yay

Local AUR Repo

• sudo nano /etc/makepkg.conf
  • PKGDEST=/home/packages
• sudo systemctl --full --force edit repo.path

  • [Path]
    PathChanged=/home/packages
    Unit=repo.service
    TriggerLimitIntervalSec=30sec
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

• sudo systemctl --user --full --force edit repo.service

  • [Service]
    Type=oneshot
    ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/logger Start - Local AUR Repo Update
    ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/repo-add --nocolor --quiet --remove --prevent-downgrade /home/packages/bobs.db.tar.gz /home/packages/*.pkg.tar.zst'
    ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/logger Done - Local AUR Repo Update
    
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target