# yay Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go #### Packages [![yay](https://img.shields.io/aur/version/yay.svg?label=yay)](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay/) [![yay-bin](https://img.shields.io/aur/version/yay-bin.svg?label=yay-bin)](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yay-bin/) [![GitHub license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-AGPL-blue.svg)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jguer/yay/master/LICENSE) 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](https://github.com/archlinuxfr/yaourt) and [apacman](https://github.com/oshazard/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 - 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 #### Custom Operations - `yay ` presents package selection menu - `yay -Qstats` delivers system statistics - `yay -Cd` cleans unneeded dependencies - `yay -G` downloads PKGBuild from ABS or AUR - `yay --gendb` generates development package DB used for devel updates. ### Changelog #### 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](https://github.com/mikkeloscar/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](https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/3) #### 1.100 - Added manpage - Improved search [#3](https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/3) - Added -G to get pkgbuild from the AUR or ABS. [#6](https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/6) - Fixed [#8](https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/8) - Completed and decluttered zsh completions - If `$EDITOR` or `$VISUAL` is not set yay will prompt you for an editor [#7](https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/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