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For me the fix was yay -S powerpill python3-xcgf python3-xcpf python3-memoizedb pm2ml

@parsanoori You need to import my signing key into your user keyring. It's the same as the one in the Arch Linux keyring, but makepkg is run as a regular user while building and checks signatures against the user's keyring, not the system's.

@AchmadFathoni The packages aren't really re-downloaded. The latest version of Pacman double-checks all packages in the cache for updates but shouldn't actually download anything if the packages are valid.

After sudo powerpill -Syu download all Arch package, the package is re-download again after :: Retrieving packages...

I got this problem:

==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
    python3-memoizedb-2017.3.30.tar.xz ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!

@Xyne can you track the pyalpm bug report here? I just created. Workaround is not a solution right?

@Xyne with pm2ml 2021 - https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pm2ml/index.html (Which is still not updated on aur, as of today) is fixed the segmentation fault. thanks.

@souravdas142 I'm looking into the segfault. Will follow-up as soon as I have a solution or know more.

edit The error is due to a bug in pyalpm (pyalpm.find_grp_pkgs segfaults). I have implemented a workaround until the bug in pyalpm is fixed. Please update pm2ml to the latest version (it should be up in about 10 minutes).

@PedroHLC I haven't looked at the new behaviour or pacman 6.0 but I haven't noticed anything different about my upgrades either. Regardless, unless there's an option in pacman to disable unwanted behavior, there isn't anything that powerpill can do about it when invoking pacman. Powerpill still does the same thing that it always has though, so the downloads should not be affected by pacman 6.0.

Hi @Xyne, Pacman (now at v6) checks if the file in cache is up-to-date with the first mirror in the list. Which (for me) s-cks. I personally prefer Powerpill's way of doing it, in parallel, capable of handling 404 and moving to another mirror.

Do you think we can return that behavior without downgrades? Anyway, thanks for this great tool, been using it since ~2012.

@Xyne

segmentation fault, after upgrading to pacman 6.0.0-2. when installing a group like sudo powerpill -S plasma before upgrading pacman, its working fine.

In case you are using Python version manager like asdf, you need to change the hash bang in the /usr/bin/powerpill to use the system python like so

───────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
       │ File: /usr/bin/powerpill
───────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ #!/usr/bin/python3
   2   │ import sys
   3   │ import Powerpill
   4   │ sys.exit(Powerpill.run_main())
───────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Other wise you might get the following error

/usr/bin/python3: No module named Powerpill

powerpill fails:

Download Results:
gid   |stat|avg speed  |path/URI
======+====+===========+=======================================================
7a7df3|ERR |        n/a|/var/lib/pacman/sync/archzfs.db
1c8b89|ERR |        n/a|/var/lib/pacman/sync/archzfs.db.sig
98b0ae|ERR |       0B/s|/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db
c9eae1|ERR |       0B/s|/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db
4210b5|ERR |       0B/s|/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db
3073d1|ERR |       0B/s|/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db

Status Legend:
(ERR):error occurred.

aria2 will resume download if the transfer is restarted.
If there are any errors, then see the log file. See '-l' option in help/man page for details.
PowerpillError: aria2c exited with 19

Name resolution for all mirrors fails: Could not contact DNS servers

What is wrong?

Edit: If I run aria2c with --async-dns=false it runs OK. How can I set that up on powerpill?

Edit no.2: I set --async-dns=false in /etc/powerpill/powerpill.json under aria2c args, it works now.

@Xyne : Yeah Thx man thats fixed it.

@Rumcajs Have you installed and rebuilt all of the dependencies since the upgrade to Python 3.9? Please read the previous comments below.

i get error : Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/powerpill, line 3, in <module> import Powerpill File /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Powerpill.py, line 43, in <module> import pm2ml ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pm2ml'

@Tanath All of the dependencies with Python modules must be rebuilt against the latest version of Python 3.

I also provide built packages in my repo that you can upgrade directly with pacman if you don't want to worry about rebuilding them yourself: https://xyne.archlinux.ca/repos/

I was also getting

/usr/bin/python3: No module named Powerpill

Rebuilding didn't change anything at first, but I tried a clean build and then I got:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 197, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Powerpill.py", line 43, in <module>
    import pm2ml
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pm2ml.py", line 35, in <module>
    import XCGF
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'XCGF'

The fix was to rebuild the following as well: python3-xcgf python3-xcpf python3-memoizedb

@homocomputeris Try rebuild powerpill and all its AUR packages against python 3.9. This works for me. Although these AUR packages have already been bumped to an increase version number, so I think just do a normal update should automatically fix this for you.

An error appears in 2020-1:

$ powerpill
/usr/bin/python3: No module named Powerpill

Problem fixed thanks @jahid

This is how I imported the missing key to solve gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error:

pacman-key --export 1D1F0DC78F173680 > xyne.asc
gpg --import xyne.asc

@Xyne I can't update powerpill package:

:: PGP keys need importing:
 -> EC3CBE7F607D11E663149E811D1F0DC78F173680, required by: powerpill
==> Import? [Y/n] 
:: Importing keys with gpg...
gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error
problem importing keys

$ curl -X GET http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup\?search\=EC3CBE7F607D11E663149E811D1F0DC78F173680\&fingerprint\=on\&op\=index
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>                                                                                      
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd" >
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>No results found</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
 .uid { color: green; text-decoration: underline; }
 .warn { color: red; font-weight: bold; }
/*]]>*/
</style></head><body><h1>No results found</h1>No results found: No keys found</body></html>

@Xyne, thanks will try it, I'll let you know if still the same error.

@Gargoyle101 You need to add my key to your keyring. makepkg uses the user's keyring, not pacman's keyring.

Hello the following error occurs while trying to install

makepkg -is
==> Making package: powerpill 2020-1 (Wed 09 Sep 2020 11:51:23 AM EET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found powerpill-2020.tar.xz
  -> Found powerpill-2020.tar.xz.sig
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    powerpill-2020.tar.xz ... Passed
    powerpill-2020.tar.xz.sig ... Passed
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
    powerpill-2020.tar.xz ... Passed
    powerpill-2020.tar.xz.sig ... Passed
==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg...
    powerpill-2020.tar.xz ... FAILED (unknown public key 1D1F0DC78F173680)
==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!

Thanks

@timescam fixed

==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/powerpill/src/powerpill-2018.11.tar.xz

the sources is no longer available

Status Legend:
(OK):download completed.
error: archzfs: signature from "ArchZFS Bot <buildbot@archzfs.com>" is invalid
error: database 'archzfs' is not valid (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

Getting this error every time zfs needs an update. Not getting the error with pacman. Why?

Keep getting this error:

==> PGP keys need importing:
 -> EC3CBE7F607D11E663149E811D1F0DC78F173680, required by: python3-xcgf  python3-memoizedb  python3-xcpf  pm2ml  powerpill
==> Import? [Y/n] y
:: Importing keys with gpg......
gpg: keyserver receive failed: Permission denied
==> Error: Problem importing keys

I needed to install python3-memoizedb for it to run, however, it isn't listed as a dependency here

Fixed by a complete clean rebuild, including aur dependencies

Doesn't work as of today, outputs: /usr/bin/python3: No module named Powerpill

After manjaro update today it works just fine, great tool

@princenna @Spirit Try rebuilding aria2. Nettle was just updated for Arch, and aria2 requires that lib.

Make sure that all of powerpill's dependencies are up-to-date (pyalpm, pm2ml, etc.). You can use my repo [1] to let pacman handle this automatically.

[1] https://xyne.archlinux.ca/repos/

I have the exact same problem as @Spirit and I am using the latest version of pyalpm

@Spirit Are you using the latest version of pyalpm?

Hey, noob here. I am getting this error when I try and run powerpill:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Powerpill.py", line 43, in <module>
    import pm2ml
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pm2ml.py", line 38, in <module>
    import XCPF.PacmanConfig
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/XCPF/PacmanConfig.py", line 28, in <module>
    from pycman.config import pacman_conf_enumerator, _logmask, cb_log, LIST_OPTIONS, BOOLEAN_OPTIONS
ImportError: cannot import name 'pacman_conf_enumerator' from 'pycman.config' (/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pycman/config.py)

I looked at ansatz's comment and on that link it says the patch that fixes this problem has been integrated, but it still doesn't work for me?

The issue is caused by python3-xcpf. See here for a working patch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python3-xcpf/

Powerpill is broken, it may be related to latest pycman, idk:

% powerpill -Syu
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Powerpill.py", line 43, in <module>
    import pm2ml
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pm2ml.py", line 38, in <module>
    import XCPF.PacmanConfig
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/XCPF/PacmanConfig.py", line 28, in <module>
    from pycman.config import pacman_conf_enumerator, _logmask, cb_log, LIST_OPTIONS, BOOLEAN_OPTIONS
ImportError: cannot import name 'pacman_conf_enumerator' from 'pycman.config' (/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pycman/config.py)

@Xyne I had the same problem on Manjaro. The contents of the try block is commented out. Uncommenting worked.

$ diff /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Powerpill.py powerpill-2018.11/Powerpill.py 
55,56c55,56
< #import Reflector
< #OFFICIAL_REPOSITORIES = Reflector.MirrorStatus.REPOSITORIES
---
>   import Reflector
>   OFFICIAL_REPOSITORIES = Reflector.MirrorStatus.REPOSITORIES

@DroidFreak32 I've just rebuilt the package locally via the AUR's PKGBUILD and I see no indentation error. Can you compare the installed file at /usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Powerpill.py to Powerpill.py in the source archive? I wonder if something went wrong when the file was copied to your system.

If the error was in the source file, I and several other people would have noticed it I think.

I had this error running powerpill

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 183, in _run_module_as_main
    mod_name, mod_spec, code = _get_module_details(mod_name, _Error)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 153, in _get_module_details
    code = loader.get_code(mod_name)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 860, in get_code
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 791, in source_to_code
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Powerpill.py", line 57
    except ImportError:
         ^
IndentationError: expected an indented block

So I replaced the try-except block with just

OFFICIAL_REPOSITORIES = tuple()

I know this is not the correct fix, so if anyone else could provide the correct fix I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

@Xyne: Thank you really much!

Cheers Xyne! ❤

Sorry, a lot happened in the last few weeks and I didn't notice that my release scripts had broken. Everything should be working again now.

==> Retrieving sources... -> Downloading powerpill-2018.9.8.tar.xz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/powerpill/src/powerpill-2018.9.8.tar.xz Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build powerpill.

The source is 404. That doesn't mean the built pacman packages should serve as replacement.

@aurmyster, is there no longer a link to the source?

The correct links should be: https://xyne.archlinux.ca/repos/xyne/powerpill-2018.9.8-1-any.pkg.tar.xz https://xyne.archlinux.ca/repos/xyne/powerpill-2018.9.8-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig

Source links still broken

The Package is not available. it fails to download the sources.

@Xyne https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/powerpill/src is missing

The source package is missing

I get a 404 for the source link. In fact the whole directory https://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/powerpill/src seems to be missing

@farseerfc Done.

@Morganamilo Fixed.

@simona Make sure that all of your packages (including their dependencies) have been rebuilt for Python 3.7.

Can we make the "reflector" as an optdepends? Because powerpill does not need reflector for normal usage, and reflector is not suitable for other architectures like archlinuxarm.

--print-format implies --print. powerpill does not handle this.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main "main", mod_spec) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code exec(code, run_globals) File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Powerpill.py", line 43, in <module> import pm2ml File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pm2ml.py", line 35, in <module> import XCGF ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'XCGF'</module></module>

I believe the package needs an update for the changes to python from today.

@kosmoplayer Thanks. I have added the completions to the package.

Fail to prepare an operation: powerpill-2018.5.tar.xz: invalid or damaged package

I created a powerpill's zsh completion script. Anyway, it is copypast of pacman zsh completion sript with replace pacman on powerpill. I added unique powerpill's commands --powerpill-config and --powerpill-clean. Completion of -S, -R -Q commands work fine. Take here https://gist.github.com/chain2net/12ec8ba75e1781a0e3d7f7d508687e10

@moham_96 See the discussion below about zsh. If someone contributes whatever is needed to add them then I will include it, but I don't use zsh myself and I don't have the time to figure it out myself right now.

Can you add support for zsh completions?

@CarterCox You need to install the dependencies from the AUR, or enable my repo in Pacman: https://xyne.archlinux.ca/repos/

@CarterCox you can install the missing modules from aur yaourt -S python3-xcgf python3-xcpf python3-memoizedb

I tried to install but pacman couldn't install missing dependencies:

$ makepkg ==> Making package: powerpill 2017.11-1 (Mon Mar 12 11:02:14 -03 2018) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... error: target not found: pm2ml>2012.12.12 error: target not found: python3-xcgf error: target not found: python3-xcpf ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.

@xyne pacmatic has a good example of zsh completions, I think something similar to the pacmatic completions should work for most of powerpill in fish.

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/master/share/completions/pacmatic.fish

@Xyne, actually the base is pacman.fish.

The "progname" variable is not used when you really need to create a pacman-based database: set -l listinstalled "(pacman -Q | string replace '' \ t)", set -l listgroups "(pacman -Sg) \ t'Package Group '"

and in two other lines I did not understand what it is for, if the -e and -f parameters are related to pacman or to complete: complete -c pacman -e, complete -c pacman -f

Therefore, if you replace the progname content with powerpill and bb-wrapper, that's a start (since the pacaur.fish script follows the same basic plus additional pacaur commands).

You can do a pull resquest on the github of the fish project, if they accept it, a headache for you.

Thankful!

@dapolinario I'm open to the idea but I don't use fish so I am unfamiliar with the syntax and would not be able to test it.

Would it be enough to just replace all instances of "pacman" with "powerpill", "bauerbill" or "bb-wrapper" and add some lines for extra commands to generate a new file? Looking at pacman.fish [1], I see that it sets the "progname" variable at the top and then uses that throughout most of the file, but not everywhere, so the logic isn't immediately clear.

I am also unsure about how to handle the attributions and eventual license if I modify pacman.fish for include it in my projects. It may be better to ask the fish devs to include completions for powerpill etc. as they seem to accept all completion files. If it would help, I could try to write a simple script to generate the files from pacman.fish to facilitate maintenance.

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/master/share/completions/pacman.fish

Can you add fish completion to this package, using pacman's fish completion as a template?

@bemeurer Thanks for reporting the error and posting the traceback. It should be fixed with today's pm2ml update.

I inconsistently run into the following error https://gist.github.com/bemeurer/a051eb7a3962ae9438e53c37f16a9846

It seems to happen whenever I run PACMAN=powerpill pacaur -Syu --devel --needed --noconfirm and there is and update. If when it errors I run the command again, it runs successfully.