aur-boost

Shell Script to boost AUR building time

This script will check declared parameters in:

• /etc/makepkg.conf (by default [none] parameter)
• /usr/bin/makepkg

and change them for more efficient to speed up compiling AUR packages.

Help example:

user@host:~# sudo ./aur-boost.sh --help
Script to boost AUR building time (script supports short names for parameters)

Using script:

aur-boost.sh [--config|--package|--install|--all|--help]

config - rewrite config file "/etc/makepkg.conf" (this is default [none] parameter)

package - rewrite package file "/usr/bin/makepkg" (it can be HARMFUL)

install - install most common dependencies required for building process of many AUR packages

all - rewrite both, config and package files and install deps (it can be HARMFUL)

help - get this message

Help example:

user@host:~# sudo ./aur-boost.sh --status
Current value in "/etc/makepkg.conf": "CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions \"
Current value in "/etc/makepkg.conf": "MAKEFLAGS="-j$(nproc)""
Current value in "/etc/makepkg.conf": "BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg"
Current value in "/etc/makepkg.conf": "COMPRESSZST=(zstd -1 -c -z -q -)"
Current value in "/usr/bin/makepkg":  "SKIPCHECKSUMS=1"
Current value in "/usr/bin/makepkg":  "SKIPPGPCHECK=1"

Oneliners to run from internet

(downloads with wget or curl to /tmp)

using wget with SSL

wget 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emilwojcik93/aur-boost/main/aur-boost.sh' -O "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && chmod 755 "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && sudo /tmp/aur-boost.sh

using wget WITHOUT SSL

wget --no-check-certificate 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emilwojcik93/aur-boost/main/aur-boost.sh' -O "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && chmod 755 "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && sudo /tmp/aur-boost.sh

using curl with SSL

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emilwojcik93/aur-boost/main/aur-boost.sh' -o "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && chmod 755 "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && sudo /tmp/aur-boost.sh

using curl WITHOUT SSL

curl -k -L 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/emilwojcik93/aur-boost/main/aur-boost.sh' -o "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && chmod 755 "/tmp/aur-boost.sh" && sudo /tmp/aur-boost.sh

Execute using git

Clone it in current directory and execute aur-boost.sh

git clone [email protected]:emilwojcik93/aur-boost.git
cd aur-boost
sudo ./aur-boost.sh

Relevant links:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/makepkg#Tips_and_tricks
• https://gist.github.com/beci/c737c89685a667053fe02f986d59ca44#file-aur_speed_up-md
• https://www.frandieguez.dev/posts/speed-up-archlinux-aur-builds/