aurto is an Arch Linux AUR tool for managing an auto-updating local ‘aurto’ package repository using aurutils.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Simple aurto add, aurto remove, aurto addpkg management of local aurto repo packages.
- Automatic on startup & hourly update of aur packages in the aurto repo.
- Automatic daily update of VCS, ie “*-git”, packages in the aurto repo.
- Maintainer trust system: Package maintainers must be ok-ed before adding into, or auto-updating in, the aurto repo.
- Uses makechrootpkg to build packages isolated from the main system.
- Automatic removal of packages no longer in the AUR from the aurto repo.
- Automatic removal of packages with unknown/distrusted maintainers from the aurto repo.
Website: github.com/alexheretic/aurto
Support:
Developer: Alex Butler
License: MIT License
aurutils is written in Shell and Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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