Table of Contents

• Statistics
• Duplicate States in State Repo
• Missing state file
• Moving packages to the AUR
  • Method when AUR and gitlab repo exist
  • Method when no AUR git repo existed
• Missing git repo

Statistics

Generated on Mon Jan 19 12:46:14 PM CET 2026

Duplicate States in State Repo

Missing state file

Candidates to be transfered to the AUR and to adopt there..

Moving packages to the AUR

Method when AUR and gitlab repo exist

# clone old AUR
git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/<package> <package>
cd <package>
attach the upstream gitlab repo of the dropped package
git remote add gitlab https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/<package>.git
git fetch gitlab
# gitlab uses main as main branch, AUR still master
git checkout main
# check the log of the dropped packages
# merge forcefully with old AUR, git merge normally complains about
# unrelated commit, but we basically merge by commit date
git checkout master
git merge main
git merge --allow-unrelated-histories main
# solve conflicts, mainly PKGBUILD will be a mixture of old AUR and
# last pakcage versions, you can also just rebase to the version of main
# gitlab
git commit -a -m 'merged with gitlab <package> (existed before in the AUR)'
# AUR doesn't like subdirs, rewrite the git history so that they are in the root directory
# also, maybe remove the 'keys' subdir with pgp keys
git filter-repo --path-rename <subdir>/:
git commit -a -m 'rewrote git history removing subdirs'
git push origin master

Method when no AUR git repo existed

pkgctl repo clone --protocol=https <package>
cd  <package>
git branch -m main master
git remote remove origin
git remote add origin ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/<package>
# eventually add a .SRCINFO if it is missing
makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO
git add .SRCINFO
git commit -a -m 'moved to the AUR, added .SRCINFO'
git push -u origin master

Missing git repo