Possible to use add AUR builds to cache? about cpcache HOT 8 CLOSED

Thanks for your feedback!

cpcache currently does not support any functionality related to AUR.

Please correct me if I misunderstood your use case: I assume you have multiple machines that all fetch their pacman packages from a single machine that runs cpcache, and you want cpcache to also host packages built with yay?

If that's the case, then I don't see any easy way to implement this functionality. cpcache serves files via HTTP, and AUR helpers like yay only fetch the PKGBUILD and related files via HTTP in order to build the actual package locally. I just glanced through the man page of yay, and the only kind of cache it supports is a local cache directory, but no HTTP mirrors.

So I guess that file systems like SSHFS or NFS are better suited for this use case.

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Hey there @nroi. I think a better implementation would be working with something like Aurutils and aurto. They create local repositories that server build AUR packages. They're built as root (in chroot) then the user owns them. It would be great if there was a way for cpcache to serve the repository along with the cache. Adding something in the toml to point to the custom repo. In aurto's case it sits in

https://github.com/alexheretic/aurto

Here's the project

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It would be nice not to have to setup another webserver to serve these packages and just take advantage of cpcache

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Interesting, I didn't know of aurto yet. It changes your pacman config to include a local repository:

[aurto]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = file:///var/cache/pacman/aurto

So all that would be required by cpcache is the ability to define local repositories in the TOML config, e.g. a mapping like:

[[localrepo]]
name = "aurto"
location = "/var/cache/pacman/aurto"

# Allow to define additional localrepos:
# [[localrepo]]
# name = "another_local_repo"
# location = "/var/cache/pacman/another_local_repo"

For incoming GET requests, it would then check if the path refers to a localrepo.

Each client that intends to use the AUR cache would have to modify its pacman config:

pacman.conf:

Include = /etc/pacman.d/aurto

/etc/pacman.d/aurto:

[aurto]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://localhost:7070/aurto

I have to look into this in more detail, but at first glance, it seems this can be implemented without too much effort.

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This is exactly an implementation I was looking for and I though it would be great for your project ! I have to constantly build linux-mainline, and it would be great just to pull a pre-compiled package from my server. Any contributions you'd like me to make I would be happy to help!

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I'm going to test this before pushing the new version to AUR.

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This is so cool ! I can do some testing tomorrow. Thank you so much

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I pushed the new version to AUR and explained the configuration in the README.

I don't use many AUR packages myself, so in case there are some issues related to this functionality: feedback is always welcome.

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