Stable update 2024-01-13: I can no longer build AUR packages due an error about packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz

[D.Dave]

I attempt to rebuild an AUR package: qimgv-git, but: inside Pamac (GUI) the button “build” was no longer present, so I attempted to build it in terminal, using pamac build qimgv-git, but all that I get is:

** Message: 10:19:00.648: aur_plugin.vala:317: downloading AUR data
Failed to read AUR data from /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : Error opening file /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz: No such file or directory
** Message: 10:19:00.841: aur_plugin.vala:317: downloading AUR data
Failed to read AUR data from /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz : Error opening file /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz: No such file or director

I have been able to build it using yay.

How to solve?

[megavolt]

curl -v -L -O https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz

Probably the major problem of libsoup is not solved. Check this out:

I want to use pamac

I make a little script for test libsoup package (v3 or v2) … #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import gi version = '3.0' if len(sys.argv) > 1 : version = sys.argv[1] if version != '2.4': version = '3.0' gi.require_version('Soup', version) from gi.repository import Soup from gi.repository import GLib URL = 'https://aur.archlinux.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz' URL = 'https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz' print("libsoup", version, URL) session = Soup.Session() if v…

yay uses curl. That is the difference.

Workaround: Try again later, maybe download/trigger it with curl and then use pamac again.

[D.Dave]

@megavolt

curl -v -L -O https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz

Placing this file as /var/tmp/pamac/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz has solved the problem. Thank you.