Yay -Syu --devel not being updated working on some computers in my network

[Baitinq]

Affected Version

yay v9.2.1 - libalpm v11.0.3

Issue

For some reason only on one of my 3 computers connected to my network updates from devel packages (-git) are being found. On the other two when i perform yay -Syu --devel it outputs that no updates were found.

Would you know the reason to my problem?

Thanks a lot and sorry for the short description of my issue as I dont really know how to explain this weird behaviour.

[Jguer]

Did you yay -Y --gendb when you moved to yay? You may need to generate that db if you know you have devel packages but ~/.cache/yay/vcs.json is empty. After that, once upstream is again updated you'll get updates

[Baitinq]

Yes, i did execute that command. The ~/.cache/yay/vcs.json is not empty.

[Jguer]

Can I check the contents of said vcs.json? A good solution for stuck devel packages has been yay -S --rebuild <your-devel-packages>, they will be rebuilt according to the last source available and they should be correctly tracked after

[Baitinq]

My vcs.json

{
    "anime-downloader-git": {
        "github.com/vn-ki/anime-downloader.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "d7756a8fccdc6ab1bf40500147af50f4c00d40b5"
        }
    },
    "dmenu-baitinq-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/dmenu.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "4935902378d321c465f5f8ec18619b22da75527b"
        }
    },
    "dwm-baitinq-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/dwm.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "2b69d13fbd411fb9cca50988073874a9f45140b3"
        }
    },
    "genkernel-next-git": {
        "github.com/Sabayon/genkernel-next.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "7b20b78268327b33bc9fe06c8603e8a2300fe090"
        }
    },
    "geolocate-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/geolocate": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "3ef45aa979beb4bfad32755b05ba1b301ad2ab49"
        }
    },
    "i3-battery-popup-git": {
        "github.com/rjekker/i3-battery-popup.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "master",
            "sha": "d894a102a1ff95019fc59d0a19c89687d502cd1a"
        }
    },
    "imlib2-webp-git": {
        "github.com/gawen947/imlib2-webp.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "52ca890669f700c36ecd9088af35e65fb0d45d8c"
        }
    },
    "jrnl-git": {
        "github.com/maebert/jrnl.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "2767567dc1144a2cc41d3ff651a3d28d07258ba8"
        }
    },
    "opendoas-git": {
        "github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "9a9495d672fb426010a6b52d637c30a0dbeb619f"
        }
    },
    "python-todo-t": {
        "github.com/kovetskiy/t.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "259867e9339dee662f5a5005f58b0c7503d99608"
        }
    },
    "python-ueberzug-git": {
        "github.com/seebye/ueberzug.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "master",
            "sha": "a8ac9c345c59625a5bc838a4dbc2f14047bf7161"
        }
    },
    "siji-git": {
        "github.com/stark/siji": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "c691f200c1c66e76daa2afc9cbbd1aa39045c906"
        }
    },
    "smart-wallpaper-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/smart-wallpaper.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "6fd818151aeb63164493f33a7ae87ff19f10ea94"
        }
    },
    "st-luke-git": {
        "github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "4a9b405ab00c478683de4dc3316a2fd7772393a5"
        }
    },
    "surf-baitinq-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/surf.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "73311af365535bb6ea439591012ecff41a683e00"
        }
    },
    "trackless-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/trackless.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "657d359048077744dd35b1dde8d5c94b850ac269"
        }
    },
    "ucm_plbossart-git": {
        "github.com/plbossart/UCM.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "7eaea9902a70a8878fb33fd37237ea71c199ddb0"
        }
    },
    "xf86-input-cmt-setup": {
        "github.com/joebonrichie/xf86-input-cmt-conf.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "ab34935c1976b716cf0d4ff72a2956904afa6a3d"
        }
    },
    "xwinwrap-git": {
        "github.com/ujjwal96/xwinwrap": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "master",
            "sha": "ec32e9b72539de7e1553a4f70345166107b431f7"
        }
    }
}

[Baitinq]

Ive tried rebuilding the packages and they are still not being tracked.

[Jguer]

what is your expected output? I have checked two packages in that vcs.json against their SHA upstream

git ls-remote https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st.git | grep 4a9b405ab00c478683de4dc3316a2fd7772393a5

git ls-remote https://github.com/vn-ki/anime-downloader.git | grep d7756a8fccdc6ab1bf40500147af50f4c00d40b5

And they are a match, meaning yay won't try and update these, what was your expected output?

https://github.com/Jguer/yay/issues/508 <- could potentially help

[Baitinq]

As an example the smart-wallpaper-git package should be updated, as there has been a new commit, but it is not. Btw thanks for the quick replies

[Jguer]

That's true, SHA doesn't match, can I ask you something experimental and not guaranteed to work, changing

    "smart-wallpaper-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/smart-wallpaper.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "6fd818151aeb63164493f33a7ae87ff19f10ea94"
        }
    },

to

    "smart-wallpaper-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/smart-wallpaper.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "https"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "6fd818151aeb63164493f33a7ae87ff19f10ea94"
        }
    },

and if it doesn't work to

    "smart-wallpaper-git": {
        "github.com/Baitinq/smart-wallpaper.git": {
            "protocols": [
                "git"
            ],
            "branch": "HEAD",
            "sha": "00000000000000000"
        }
    },

[Baitinq]

Neither of them work

[Jguer]

Ok, once I'm on a dev machine I'll test with aur/smart-wallpaper-git and your vcs.json to test where's the issue

[Baitinq]

Thanks a lot

[Baitinq]

@Jguer I should add that when you activate a VPN the packages do get updated.

[Jguer]

I could not reproduce this meanwhile, had a theory of trying to block the dns request to see if it would fail silently now. I'm guessing it's network related and the problem with yay here is it not warning you of what's actually wrong

[protist]

I had similar issues with yay -Syu --devel not working on some systems. Is there a fool-proof way to reset the database? I tried removing ~/.cache/yay/vcs.json then yay -Y --gendb, but this didn't seem to work. Is the only way to yay -S --rebuild <your-devel-packages>, explicitly listing all packages?

[protist]

In the meantime, I'm just ignoring --devel and manually reinstalling all using yay's naming logic, i.e.

yay -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -E -- '-(git|svn|hg|bzr|nightly)$') 

There are certainly some packages being missed by --devel.

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