docker-aurutils

aurutils packaged into a Docker container. Useful in any environment in which it's inpractical to spin up a chroot on the host.

Potential uses:

1. Running aurutils within an unprivileged LXC container.
2. Running aurutils on a system without sudo.

In all of the above cases, creating a chroot with aur sync -c fails.

How to use

It's recommended to create an alias for easier usage:

alias daur="docker run --rm -it -v ${REPO_PATH}:/repo registry.gitlab.com/geraldwuhoo/docker-aurutils:latest aur"

where ${REPO_PATH} is the path on the host where the repository lives.

Then, you may use daur in the same way as aur. For example:

$ daur sync -u
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib    148.6 KiB   149 KiB/s 00:01 [################################] 100%
 custom      493.0   B   241 KiB/s 00:00 [################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
==> Using [custom] repository
    there is nothing to do

If there does not exist an existing repository at ${REPO_PATH}, then the container will create and initialize one. If there does exist a repository, then it will use the existing one.