Aura Changelog

3.0.0 (2020-05-20)

Added

• Aura is now configurable via a conf file! Aura expects it at /etc/aura.conf, but will not break if it’s missing. If you install Aura via its AUR package, this file will be installed for you automatically.
• A new top-level command: -P. This allows users to analyse PKGBUILD files manually, as is usually done during building.
  • -Pf accepts a path to a PKGBUILD.
  • -Pd accepts a path to a directory containing a PKGBUILD.
  • -Pa to scan the PKGBUILDs of all locally installed AUR packages.
  • -P on its own will read from stdin. Combine this with -Ap to pull from the AUR:

> aura -Ap myget | aura -P

    sudo pacman -S aurvote

aura >>= sudo indicates that someone may be trying to gain root access to your machine.
aura >>= Potential PKGBUILD vulnerabilities detected.

• A new flag --vcspath to accompany the new VCS build behaviour (see below).
• A new flag --allsourcepath to accompany the restored --allsource functionality (see below).
• -O --adopt can now be called as -Oa.

Changed

• VCS packages (e.g. *-git, *-svn, etc.) and their cloned sources are now built and stored in /var/cache/aura/vcs. Subsequent builds will no longer reclone everything. #462
• --hotedit will now offer to edit .install and .patch files. #208
• Some modules have been renamed and moved around.
• Aura.Diff and Aura.Pkgbuild.Base have had their contents folded into other modules.

Fixed

• A regression that broke -Bc. #592
• The functionality of --allsource has been restored. #538
• A minor difference in the behaviour of -Ss relative to pacman. #599

2.3.0 (2020-04-22)

Added

• Allow --asdeps to be passed to -A commands.
• -y can be passed to -A commands again, like -Ayu.
• Dutch translations. Thank you, Joris Blanken!

Changed

• ~15% reduction in binary size and much faster compiles due to removal of unnecessary dependencies.
• -Cc now reports how much storage space was cleared.
• A few more messages when using --log-level=debug.

Removed

• makepkgConfFile wasn’t being used anywhere.

Fixed

• A bug involving multiple prompts appearing at the same time when more than one package needs a custom provider selection. #541
• A bug involving the + character appearing in package names, like crypto++. #520
• A regression where the name of a parent package wouldn’t be displayed when a dependency couldn’t be found. #513

2.2.1 (2020-03-01)

Changed

• Further improved Italian translations.

Fixed

• Pass the Pacman flag --overwrite through properly.

2.2.0 (2020-02-25)

Added

• --log-level flag. Setting this to debug will give you some verbose logging output. This is different from the usual -x behaviour.

Changed

• Updated Italian translations. Grazie, Cristian Tentella!
• Support for GHC 8.8.2.

Fixed

• Users with many AUR packages installed will no longer see mysterious AUR connection failures. (#528)

2.1.0 (2020-02-17)

Added

• Reinstated -Aw, which downloads a snapshot tarball of an AUR package.

2.0.6 (2020-02-16)

Fixed

• Fixed the broken -S.

2.0.5 (2020-02-16)

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that prevented -Syuu and -Scc.

2.0.4 (2020-02-08)

Changed

• Removed fused-effects dependency in favour of rio to simplify code.

2.0.3

Changed

• Updated Spanish translations. Thanks to Max Ferrer!

Fixed

• Bug #543 involving locales. Thanks to Alexey Kotlyarov!

2.0.2

• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

2.0.0

This is a large update representing about a month of full-time effort. Aura is now much faster, solves dependencies more reliably, has a few new features, and many fewer bugs. This is all while modernizing the code and seeing a ~15% decrease in overall code size.

Improvements

Dependency Handling

• Dependency resolution is now much faster and handles split packages correctly. As such, the following troublesome packages now build correctly:
  • android-sdk
  • backintime
  • clion
  • libc++
  • mysql-connector-c++
  • telegram-desktop-dev
  • zoom
• Dependency provider selection for AUR packages.
  • Example: cron is a legal dependency to specify, but there exists no package with that name. cronie and fcron both “provide” cron, and now the user can manually make a selection.
  • Including --noconfirm will have Aura make its best guess.
• If the exact version of an AUR package is available in the package cache, it will be used automatically instead of being rebuilt. You can instead force a rebuild with --force.

PKGBUILD Analysis

• In light of the recent compromise of the Acroread package, Aura nows performs static PKGBUILD analysis before building, and warns the user if potentially malicious terms like curl are found.
  • This feature can be disabled with --noanalysis. Caveat emptor!
  • This feature is a supplement in checking PKGBUILD safety, not a fool-proof replacement. It is always your responsiblity to understand what build scripts are running on your machine.

Saved Package State

• -Su and -Au automatically save a package state before updating (unless you’re doing --dryrun). This lets you more easily roll back from problematic updates.
• Saved package states can now be “pinned”, which will protect them from removal via -Bc. To pin a certain state, open its JSON file (see below in Breaking Changes) and edit the pinned field from false to true.

CLI Flags

• Various CLI flag improvements:
  • -A --json <packages>. Query the AUR directly for a package’s raw JSON data. Great for debugging.
  • -Br has been restored as short-hand for -B --restore.
  • Added -Bl to list all saved package state filenames.
  • -Cb added as a short-hand for -C --backup.
  • The Pacman flags --ignoregroup, --cachedir, --config, and --logfile also now affect Aura.
  • --dryrun no longer requires sudo.
  • --color never turns off all text colouring. Further, by default, Aura will only automatically colour text when it detects that the output device is a terminal (and not a Unix pipe, say). These behaviours match Pacman.

Translations

• Improved Japanese translations thanks to Onoue Takuro.
• Improved Portuguese translations thanks to Wagner Amaral.
• Improved Russian translations thanks to Alexey Kotlyarov.

Misc.

• Packages that aren’t interdependent will be built in succession without prompting the user, only calling down to pacman once per group.
• Modernized the Haskell code:
  • Removed custom CLI flag handling in favour of optparse-applicative.
  • Removed custom package version number parsing in favour of versions.
  • Removed custom text colouring code in favour of prettyprinter.
  • Removed the Aura Monad in favour of Extensible Effects via freer-simple.
  • Removed custom shell interaction code in favour of typed-process.
  • Used async to make AUR and pacman calls concurrent.
  • megaparsec parsers used in place of hacky Regexes.
• aura is now a library as well, and can be pulled into other Haskell projects.

Breaking Changes

• -B now saves package states as JSON. This makes them readable by other tools, and also improves internal code quality. All old package state files are no longer readable by Aura.
  • The "time" field in these files is now a Haskell ZonedTime.
• Various CLI flag changes:
  • --auradebug is now just --debug, matching Pacman.
  • --aurignore is now just --ignore, matching Pacman.
  • -Aw has been removed.
  • -y no longer works with -A. Perform an -Sy ahead of time instead.
  • -O no longer accepts arguments to adopt packages, it only displays current orphans. Use -O --adopt instead for the old behaviour.
  • -Ccc is now -C --notsaved.
• Help messages (-h) are no longer localised.
• Support for powerpill removed.
• Support for customizepkg removed.

Bug Fixes

• Aura no longer returns an exit code of 1 if no packages are available to upgrade.
• -Aq no longer fails at the package installation step.
• Ctrl+C at certain moments no longer preserves the Pacman lock file.
• makepkg output is no longer coloured green.

1.4.0

• Dependency resolution vastly improved. We removed the Bash parser that used to poorly handle the bulk of this.
• Chinese translations thanks to Kai Zhang.
• -M operator and associated code fully removed.

1.3.9

• Updated Swedish translations
• Disabled -M operator due to the abs tool being deprecated by Arch Linux

1.3.8

• Fixed behaviour of -B flags. For restoring of saved states, use the long form: aura -B --restore. Cache backups also need to take their long form: aura -C --backup.
• Fixed handling of language flags. Thanks to Doug Patti!

1.3.5

• Aura now uses version 5 of the aur package, to fix a critial bug
• Updated Spanish and Polish

1.3.4

• Bash parser bug fix. Fixes some packages.

1.3.3

• Bash parser extended to be able to handle bash array expansions. This enables packages with more (Bash-wise) complex PKGBUILDs to build properly.

1.3.2.1

• -Ai and -As show popularity values.
• aur4 is no longer referenced.
• Yes/No prompts are now localized.
• Aura can be built with stack.
• Updated German translation.

1.3.1.0

• Aura builds against GHC 7.10.
• Updated German and Russian translations.

1.3.0.4

• Must use --builduser when building as root.
• Bug fix regarding --needed.
• Updated Portuguese translation.

1.3.0.3

• Pacman flags --ignore and --ignoregroup now work.
• Bug fixes.

1.3.0.2

• (Bug fix) If a user tries to install a package in IgnorePkg, they will now be prompted.
• Man page updated.
• Dependencies updated.

1.3.0.1

• (Bug fix) Tarballs are now downloaded from a URL provided by the RPC.

1.3.0.0

• Last major version of Aura 1! We have entered the design phase for Aura 2, the implementation of which will transform Aura into a multi-distro package management platform.

• Aura 1 itself has entered “legacy” mode. The only releases to be made on Aura 1 after this will be of 1.3.0.x. You’ll likely never see 1.3.1.x.

• Befitting a major release, we have:

  • New AUR interaction layer via the aur package. This fixes nasty “AUR lookup failed” errors.
  • http-conduit dropped for wreq, which is much easier to use.
  • Better version number parsing/comparison on installation/upgrading.
  • Package state backups have had their format changed. This BREAKS all previously saved states. Please delete your old ones!
  • Implemented extended --needed functionality for the AUR side of Aura. AUR packages won’t build if they’re already installed.
  • Indonesian translations!
  • Other updated translations.

1.2.3.4

• zsh completions completely redone (thanks to Sauyon Lee!) Having aur-git installed will let you auto-complete on AUR packages.

1.2.3.3

• -As --{head,tail} can now be passed numbers to truncate the results to any number you want. The default is 10.
• Updated Russian translation.

1.2.3.2

• Expanded Bash completions: Aura Only * Expanded completion for all options and search sub-options * Package completion for -M/–abssync * Completion for orphans using self-generated list Pacman * Include completion for all pacman options * Directory or file completion for some common options
• Use --dryrun with -A and -M install options to test everything up until actual building would occur (dependency checks, etc.)

1.2.3.1

• Network.HTTP.Conduit errors are now caught properly and don’t crash aura.
• customizepkg usage corrected.
• zsh completions slightly expanded.

1.2.3.0

• Moved to Network.HTTP.Conduit from Network.Curl This fixes the AUR connection issues. Binary size has increased by quite a bit.

1.2.2.1

• -Ai now shows dependencies.

1.2.2.0

• Happy New Year!
• makepkg’s --ignorearch flag is now visible to Aura. This allows users to build AUR packages on ARM devices without worrying about architecture restrictions in PKGBUILDs.
• Use --head and --tail to truncate -As results.
• -B now uses local time.
• Bug fixes and translation updates

1.2.1.3

• -As results now sort by vote. Use --abc to sort alphabetically.
• “[installed]” will now be shown in -As results if you have it.
• Fixed Bash parsing bug involving \\ in arrays
• Fixed broken -C
• Updated Italian translation
• Updated French translation

1.2.1.2

• Happy Canadian Thanksgiving
• Bug fixes

1.2.1.1

• Norwegian translation added!
• Dependency checks slightly faster
• --hotedit and --custom can now be used together
• Bug fixes

1.2.1.0

• New builduser option
• Prelude.head bug fixed
• Dependency checking is faster
• New -k output
• --absdeps works properly now
• Other bug fixes

1.2.0.2

• Bug fixes and spelling corrections.

1.2.0.1

• Fixes dependency build order bug.

1.2.0.0

• New operator -M for building ABS packages. Has its own family of options.
• Pre-built binary package available (x86_64 only)
• Updates to Aura are now prioritized like pacman updates.
• Dependency checking is now faster.
• Use -Ccc to clean the cache of only packages not saved in any package record.
• -Ai now shows Maintainer name.
• Extensive API changes.

1.1.6.2

• New option --no-pp. Disables use of powerpill, even if you have it.
• This is a light release, as major work is being done on version 1.2 on another development branch.

1.1.6.1

• Compatable with pacman 4.1
• All pacman-color support removed
• -As output slightly altered to match pacman.
• Bug fixes.

1.1.6.0

• New option --build for specifying AUR package build path.
• Vote number now shown in -As output.
• Fixed Repo/AUR name collision bug.
• API Change: Argument order for functions in Aura/Languages changed.

1.1.5.0

• customizepkg now usable with Aura. Activate with the --custom option.
• API Change: Aura/Pkgbuilds now a set of libraries as Aura/Pkgbuild/*

1.1.4.3

• Fixed flaw in -Br.
• Fixed repititious -Ad output.
• API Change: Aura/AurConnection renamed to Aura/AUR
• API Change: function names in Aura/Languages now have better names.

1.1.4.2

• Haskell deps have been moved back to makedepends.
• haskell-http removed as dependency.
• API Change: function naming conventions in Aura/Languages.hs has been changed. The localisation guide was also updated to reflect this.

1.1.4.1

• Support for the $LANG environment variable.
• Aura will now pause before post-build installation if the package database lock exists. This means you can run multiple instances of Aura and avoid crashes.

1.1.4.0

• Serbian translation added. Thank you, Filip Brcic!
• Fixed bug that was breaking aura -Ss.

1.1.3.0

• Changed --save and --restore to -B and -Br. --save is now just an alias for -B, but --restore must be used with -B.
• New option -Bc for removing old unneeded package states.
• -Br output is now sorted better and makes more sense.
• Bash Parser can now properly parse if blocks, meaning packages that have conditional dependencies based on architecutre will now build properly.
• API Change: Aura.General is now Aura.Core
• Dep Change: haskell-url no longer needed.

1.1.2.1

• Added message to --save.

1.1.2.0

• Bash parser completely rewritten.
• Bug fixes (thanks to the new parser)

1.1.1.0

• New option --devel. Rebuilds all devel packages installed.
• Italian translation added! Thank you Bob Valantin!
• Support for powerpill added. It will be used if installed, unless the PACMAN variable is specifically set to something different.
• Aura can now handle PKGBUILDs that produce multiple .pkg.tar files.
• Bug fixes

1.1.0.0

• New --save and --restore options.
• New option -Ak for showing PKGBUILD diffs when upgrading.
• New option --aurignore for ignoring AUR packages.
• Aura now reads color.conf.
• Massive breaking API changes everywhere.
• Aura now runs on the Aura Monad.
• Code is quite cleaner now.

1.0.8.1

• Bash completions added.
• zsh completions added.
• Changed --conf to --viewconf
• Fixed bug involving “symlink” Haskell error.

1.0.8.0

• Moved certain general functions to Aura.Utils
• Moved -L, -O, -A functions out of aura.hs.
• --hotedit functionality altered (fix).
• The license message is now more badass.

1.0.7.0

• New libraries: Aura.Time, Aura.State
• Moved -C functionality to Aura.C
• New secret option you don’t get to find out about until 1.1
• Fixed manually alignment stupidity with -Li.
• Bug fixes

1.0.6.0

• New libraries: ColourDiff, Data.Algorithm.Diff, Aura.Pkgbuilds
• Aura.AuraLib split into Aura.General, Aura.Build, Aura.Dependencies
• New secret option you don’t get to find out about until 1.1

1.0.5.0

• Fixed bug where packages with + in their name couldn’t be searched or built.
• -As now allows multi-word searches, as it always should have.
• pacman-color integration is more complete. Still does not read the color.conf directly.

1.0.4.0

• Added French translation. Thanks to Ma Jiehong!
• Added Russian translation. Thanks to Kyrylo Silin!
• Fixed bug where packages with dots in their name wouldn’t build.

1.0.3.2

• Moved haskell dependencies out of makedepends field and into depends field in PKGBUILD. Makedepends can usually be ignored after building, but haskell packages are a pain to rebuild and reregister at every build. It’s more realistic to just keep them installed. This is what other haskell packages in the AUR do as well.
• Fixed pacman-color issues.

1.0.3.1

• Added --auradebug option.

1.0.3.0

• Compatibility with AUR 2.0 added.
• Portuguese translation added. Thanks to Henry “Ingvij” Kupty!
• Support for pacman-color added. Run sudo with -E a la: sudo -E aura -Ayu
• Fixed backslash parsing bug in Bash.

1.0.2.2

• Fixed parsing bug in Bash. If one package fell victim, a whole -Au session would fail.

1.0.2.1

• Added License info to source files.
• Fixed virtual package recognition bug.
• Altered version conflict error message.
• Fixed bug in Bash parser that would occasionally break parsing.

1.0.2.0

• Bug fixes.
• Extended the Bash parser. PKGBUILDs that had bash variables in their dependency arrays will now be parsed correctly.

1.0.1.0

• German translation (use with –german). Thanks to Lukas Niederbremer!
• Spanish translation (use with –spanish) Thanks to Alejandro Gómez!
• Replaced regex-posix with regex-pcre.
• -As now highlights properly.
• Moved a number of modules to Aura/

1.0.0.0

• Fixed -V message in terminals other than urxvt.
• New haskell-ansi-terminal library to do this.

0.10.0.0

• Internet access moved to Network.Curl library.

• Bash.hs library created to help with PKGBUILD parsing. Can currently handle string expansions a la::

  “this-is-{awesome,neat}” => [“this-is-awesome”,“this-is-neat”]

0.9.2.3

• Dependency determining speed up.
• Added AUR URL to -Ai.

0.9.3.2

• Swedish translation. Thanks to Fredrik Haikarainen!

0.9.2.0

• -Ai and -As!

0.9.1.0

• -Au is about 20 times faster.

0.9.?.?

• Polish translation. Thanks to Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick!
• Croatian translation. Thanks to Denis Kasak!

0.9.0.0

• New -O operation for dealing with orphan packages.
• A man page!

0.8.0.0

• Help message now supports multiple languages.
• Broke “no overlapping options” convention.
• -Cz is now -Cb.
• New option -Ad. Lists all dependencies of an AUR package. This is to aid pre-building research. This option shows information you can’t get from looking at PKGBUILDS!

0.7.3.0

• New option --conf. Lets you quickly view your pacman.conf.

0.7.2.3

• --log is now -L.
• New option -Ls. Search the log file via a regex.
• New option -Li. Reports information on a given package that has had any appearance in the log file.

0.7.0.0

• --hotedit option added.
• Shell library added.

0.6.0.0

• Aura passes proper exit codes to the shell upon completion.