PKGBUILD for pacaur is broken about cli-visualizer

[dpayne]

can you try installing with yaourt?

[dpayne]

The build seems to be working for me, so I'm closing this for now. Please re-open if you still have issues.

[linuxundich]

Sorry, didn't much have time today. It looks like that yaourt works as AUR-Helper for cli-visualizer. When I use pacaur (like I usually do), it's says at the end that the packages has been installed, but the files are not there.

[StephenBrown2]

Which files? The package should install a binary as /usr/bin/vis, and supporting example files in /usr/share/doc/cli-visualizer

[linuxundich]

Pacaur fails installing...

$ pacaur -S cli-visualizer
[...]
  -> Generating .MTREE file...
  -> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Finished making: cli-visualizer 1:321.bc0104e-1 (Di 2. Feb 15:17:23 CET 2016)
==> Cleaning up...
:: Installing cli-visualizer package(s)...
:: cli-visualizer package(s) failed to install. Check .SRCINFO for mismatching data with PKGBUILD.
$ pacman -Qi cli-visualizer
error: package 'cli-visualizer' was not found

I'm not sure, where I can find the mentioned .SRCINFO

[StephenBrown2]

Here it is:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/.SRCINFO?h=cli-visualizer

It's a hidden file (noted by the starting '.' in the filename), that is included in the package tarball itself, so wherever pacaur caches the packages it builds is where that will be.

Typically that is built from the PKGBUILD, however it's possible that the PKGBUILD was changed and the .SRCINFO wasn't updated.

I would read up on AUR packages to see where it might have failed, specifically this section of the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#AUR_metadata
which references mksrcinfo:
The .SRCINFO can also be created from the PKGBUILD with mksrcinfo from pkgbuild-introspection.

Once you locate pacaur's cache, or download the package source from the AUR, you can try making it yourself, generating a new .SRCINFO and comparing it with the one from the package.

[dpayne]

You are right that pacaur seems to fail because of the .SRCINFO. I had used mksrcinfo to generate the .SRCINFO so I had thought it should work, and it does seem to work with other AUR package managers.

The line pacaur fails on is

[[ -z "${builtdepspkgs[@]}" && -z "${builtpkgs[@]}" ]] && Note "f" $"${colorW}${pkgsdeps[$i]}${reset} package(s) failed to install. Check .SRCINFO for mismatching data with PKGBUILD."

Which seems to have something to do with the dependencies in the .SRCINFO. I'm re-opening this for now until I can get it figured out. Let me know if you have any ideas.

[StephenBrown2]

It doesn't particularly help, but I used apacman to install it and it went fine. So maybe a bug in pacaur?

[dpayne]

Looks like it was mostly likely due to a pacaur bug. rmarquis/pacaur#414 From the comments it looks like the fix will be out in the next stable release.

[rmarquis]

Nope, the mentioned fix doesn't concern your PKGBUILD; it only fixes installation of PKGBUILDs that redefine PKGEXT and override the makepkg config. Not sure if that would fix the issue, but your pkgrel isn't standard.
Edit: Nvm, I did miss the end of the doc: "In exceptional cases other formats can be found in use, such as major.minor."

[rmarquis]

The reason your package fails is because it is a -git package, although it does not have that extension. As a "stable" package, pacaur relies on the information provided by the RPC interface to retrieve the correct version.

I'd suggest you to rename your package to cli-visualizer-git, and keep cli-visualizer for the stable counterpart of the PKGBUILD (as per the guideline). You should also use a standardized pkgrel, since major.minor seems however to be heavily discouraged, as per the comment in the wiki page history.

Note that yaourt and packer/apacman work here since they have fundamentally different way of working. Pacaur does not parse the PKGBUILDs at all to retrieve info, mostly for security purpose.

[dpayne]

Thanks so much for the comments here @rmarquis. I've created package cli-visualizer-git and as soon as I get a chance I'll change the PKGBUILD for cli-visualizer to use a stable package.