Support for pikaur

[t-animal]

Description

Support for pikaur as an additional aur pacman wrapper.

Motivation and context

AUR wrappers show diffs to the last installed version of the installation scripts when installing a new version. This is critical for security. When arch-update uses a different package manager than what the user uses otherwise, these updates becomes misaligned. I don't know if it is feasible to just support all wrappers that there are, but I for one use pikaur and hope that it could be added as a supported wrapper. I guess, that if they're compatible with pacman, adding them should be relatively easy.

Maybe a more generic option could also be viable. Like setting a path to a wrapper in the config file instead of naming the wrapper.

[Antiz96]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the feature request!

AUR wrappers show diffs to the last installed version of the installation scripts when installing a new version. This is critical for security. When arch-update uses a different package manager than what the user uses otherwise, these updates becomes misaligned.

This is a fair point! However...

I don't know if it is feasible to just support all wrappers that there are,

...it's definitely not feasible to support every AUR helpers / pacman wrapper there is. 😅

but I for one use pikaur and hope that it could be added as a supported wrapper. I guess, that if they're compatible with pacman, adding them should be relatively easy.

It's indeed important that they share options with pacman itself (to ease their support integration within Arch-Update) but, most importantly, they should also be compatible with each other in terms of options, to avoid complicating the different scripts / libraries with numerous conditionals statements.

Luckily, it seems like pikaur shares most options with yay and paru (at least the ones we are interested in for Arch-Update, at first glance).
I still need to study that deeper and make some tests before confirming if pikaur support could be added or not though.

I have a lot to do in the incoming days / weeks, so I can't promise I'll be able to do that soon, but I'll try my best!
I'll let you know 😉

[Antiz96]

Turns out I got time to make a few quick tests today and adding support for pikaur should be doable!

I'm starting to work on this.
Thanks again for the feature request :)

[Antiz96]

Support for pikaur added in #276 and included in the v3.4.0 release 😉