YAOURTRC(5)

NAME
yaourtrc - yaourt configuration file

SYNOPSIS

/etc/yaourtrc

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/yaourt/yaourtrc

$HOME/.yaourtrc

DESCRIPTION

yaourt(8) obtains configuration data from the following sources in the following order:

    1. command-line options

    2. environment variables

    3. user’s configuration file ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME/yaourt/yaourtrc takes precedence)

    4. system-wide configuration file (/etc/yaourtrc)

GENERAL OPTIONS

REPOS=()
    List of repositories where PKGBUILD can be retrieved by rsync. (see /etc/abs.conf)

AUTOSAVEBACKUPFILE=0
    If set to 1, yaourt will search for config files to back up (.pacnew files) after each install. All backed up files are stored in /var/lib/yaourt/. These files will be used later with yaourt -C to automerge current config files with new config files (.pacnew). This option requires root password or sudo configured to allow running /usr/bin/pacdiffviewer without password.

DEVELSRCDIR=""
    Specify directory where to keep sources for devel packages.

DEVEL=0
    If set to 1, always search for new version of development (CVS/SVN/Git/Mercurial/other VCS) packages when upgrading (yaourt -Su).

VISUAL="$VISUAL"
    Define the editor to use (if the environment variable $VISUAL is not set) for PKGBUILD editing. Editor should not fork, for gvim: VISUAL="gvim --nofork". Preferred over EDITOR.

EDITOR="$EDITOR"
    Define the editor to use (if the environment variables $VISUAL and $EDITOR and the yaourtrc option $VISUAL are not set) for PKGBUILD editing. Editor should not fork, for gvim: EDITOR="gvim --nofork". Fallback option for VISUAL.

FORCE=0
    If set to 1, always bypass file conflict checks and overwrite conflicting files.

TMPDIR="/tmp"
    Specify the folder to save temporary files (default is /tmp).

NO_TESTDB=0
    Set to 1 to bypass the local database test.

SUDO OPTIONS

SUDONOVERIF=0
    If set to 1, yaourt doesn’t do sudo checks. (For users with timestamp_timeout=0 in sudoers)

SUDOREDIRECT=1
    If set to 0, yaourt doesn’t redirect sudo standard output. (For users with fingerprint authentication)

AUR OPTIONS

AURCOMMENT=5
    Show X last comments for packages built from AUR Unsupported. 0 to disable comments display, default to 5.

AURDEVELONLY=0
    If set to 1, search only for new version of development (CVS/SVN/Git/Mercurial/other VCS) packages when upgrading (yaourt -Su --devel).

AURSEARCH=1
    If set to 0, don’t search for packages on AUR Unsupported.

AURSHOWDIFF=0
    If set to 1, show a diff of the PKGBUILD for packages updated from AUR (AURUSEGIT needs to be set to 1 as well).

AURUPGRADE=0
    If set to 1, always search for new version of packages installed from AUR Unsupported when upgrading (yaourt -Su).

AURURL="https://aur.archlinux.org"
    Specify a custom AUR url.

AURVOTE=1
    If set to 0, don’t check the vote status for inclusion/keeping in [community], and it is unable to vote.

AURUSEGIT=0
    If set to 1, clone the AUR git repository instead of using snapshot tarballs.

BUILD OPTIONS

EXPORT=0
    Export built package to $EXPORTDIR or, if not defined to $PKGDEST (see makepkg.conf(5)). EXPORT=2 exports all built packages to pacman cache directory (see pacman.conf(5)).

EXPORTSRC=0
    Export sources to $EXPORTDIR or, if not defined to $SRCPKGDEST or $PKGDEST (see makepkg.conf(5)).

EXPORTDIR=""
    Specify the folder where yaourt exports built packages + sources.

PROMPT OPTIONS

NOCONFIRM=0
    If set to 1, always use the default choice without confirmation, unless overwritten by --confirm.

UP_NOCONFIRM=0
    If set to 1, do not prompt for AUR or build upgrades.

BUILD_NOCONFIRM=0
    If set to 1, do not prompt while building.

EDITFILES=1
    If set to 0, don’t propose to edit files (from AUR or from ABS).

NOENTER=1
    If set to 0, user needs to press Enter for each "yes/no" question.

OUTPUT OPTIONS

USECOLOR=1
    0 : disable colors 1 : enable colors (disabled if output is not a tty) 2 : force colored output

USEPAGER=0
    1 : enable pager (use $PAGER variable)

DETAILUPGRADE=1
    0 : no detailed ouput and no update classification 1 : no detailed ouput but updates classified 2 : show packages not found on aur / version mismatch / up to date / and those marked as out of date 4 : same as 2 except for up to date packages

SHOWORPHANS=1
    If set to 0, search for orphans.

TERMINALTITLE=1
    If set to 0, don’t show the current yaourt’s action in terminal title. By default, yaourt show messages like "Installing xxx from AUR".

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Environment variables take precedence over any options in yaourtrc files.

VISUAL
    Define the editor to use (if the environment variable $VISUAL is not set) for PKGBUILD editing. Editor should not fork, for gvim: VISUAL="gvim --nofork". Preferred over EDITOR.

EDITOR
    Define the editor to use (if the environment variable $VISUAL and the yaourtrc option $VISUAL are not set) for PKGBUILD editing. Editor should not fork, for gvim: EDITOR="gvim --nofork". Fallback option for VISUAL.

COMMAND OPTIONS

PACMAN="pacman"
    Specify the pacman binary to use with yaourt

MAKEPKG="makepkg"
    Specify the makepkg binary to use with yaourt

DIFFEDITCMD="vimdiff"
    Define the diff editor to use ($DIFFEDITCMD file1 file2).

SEE ALSO

yaourt(8)

See the yaourt website at http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en/ for more info.

BUGS

https://github.com/archlinuxfr/yaourt

AUTHORS

Original author:

- Julien MISCHKOWITZ <wain@archlinux.fr>

Current maintainers:

- larchunix <larchunix+yaourt@gmail.com>

- Igor <f2404@yandex.ru>

- Skunnyk <skunnyk@archlinux.fr>

Past maintainers:

- Tuxce <tuxce.net@gmail.com>