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Build files exist but still get compiled again
Version yay v9.4.6 - libalpm v12.0.1
Issue When building a package from the AUR which requires compilation of the source I ran into a problem and could not find any documentation about it. The compilation was succesfull but some other error occurred with the install stage.
I decided to try again in order to try to diagnose the problem. Sure enough I get prompted that build files exist and am asked which files I want to clean build. I choose None and it compiles again!
Am I misunderstanding this behavior? I would expect that if I choose None that yay would skip the compilation since the build files exist in the cache. This particular package takes almost 30 minutes to build so I was hoping that it would jump straight to the install but it does not.
Steps to reproduce N/A
Output { "aururl": "https://aur.archlinux.org", "buildDir": "/home/justin/.cache/yay", "absdir": "/home/justin/.cache/yay/abs", "editor": "", "editorflags": "", "makepkgbin": "makepkg", "makepkgconf": "", "pacmanbin": "pacman", "pacmanconf": "/etc/pacman.conf", "redownload": "no", "rebuild": "no", "batchinstall": false, "answerclean": "", "answerdiff": "", "answeredit": "", "answerupgrade": "", "gitbin": "git", "gpgbin": "gpg", "gpgflags": "", "mflags": "", "sortby": "votes", "searchby": "name-desc", "gitflags": "", "removemake": "ask", "sudobin": "sudo", "sudoflags": "", "requestsplitn": 150, "sortmode": 0, "completionrefreshtime": 7, "sudoloop": false, "timeupdate": false, "devel": false, "cleanAfter": false, "provides": true, "pgpfetch": true, "upgrademenu": true, "cleanmenu": true, "diffmenu": true, "editmenu": false, "combinedupgrade": false, "useask": false }
From what I understand, the "clean build" option means that yay won't download the PKGBUILD and sources again.
But I agree, there should be a way to not have it recompile everything if the compiled package already exists.
Really annoying if you have a big package and it fails because of an already installed package.
