yay creates a folder named ~ in the current directory

[evilhamsterman]

Affected Version

yay v11.2.0 - libalpm v13.0.1

Describe the bug

yay is creating a directory named ~ containing the sub directories .cache/yay in whatever directory you execute it.

Reproduction Steps

1. Create a directory or use an existing directory
2. Run yay -Syu to update pacman cache
3. Run ls and see a folder named ~ exists

Expected behavior

The yay command uses the .cache directory in $HOME

Output

dmills in 🌐 dmills-remote in /tmp 
❯ mkdir yay
dmills in 🌐 dmills-remote in /tmp 
❯ cd yay
dmills in 🌐 dmills-remote in /tmp/yay 
❯ yay -Syu
[sudo] password for dmills: 
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 endeavouros is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: openssh: ignoring package upgrade (8.8p1-1 => 9.0p1-1)
 there is nothing to do
:: Searching databases for updates...
:: Searching AUR for updates...
 -> openssh: ignoring package upgrade (8.8p1-1 => 9.0p1-1)
 -> Missing AUR Packages:  celt
 -> Flagged Out Of Date AUR Packages:  vmware-ovftool
 there is nothing to do
dmills in 🌐 dmills-remote in /tmp/yay 
❯ ls -lh
Permissions Size User   Date Modified Name
drwxr-xr-x     - dmills 19 Jul 12:46  ~
dmills in 🌐 dmills-remote in /tmp/yay 
❯ ls -lhT
Permissions Size User   Date Modified Name
drwxr-xr-x     - dmills 19 Jul 12:46  .
drwxr-xr-x     - dmills 19 Jul 12:46  └── ~

[Jguer]

can't reproduce, can you share your ~/.config/yay/config.json?

EDIT: as well if AURDEST is present as a env var?

[evilhamsterman]

AURDEST is unset

I haven't made any changes to my config it started happening as much as I can tell after a recent update.

{
        "aururl": "https://aur.archlinux.org",
        "buildDir": "~/.cache/yay",
        "absdir": "~/.cache/yay/abs",
        "editor": "",
        "editorflags": "",
        "makepkgbin": "makepkg",
        "makepkgconf": "",
        "pacmanbin": "pacman",
        "pacmanconf": "/etc/pacman.conf",
        "redownload": "no",
        "rebuild": "no",
        "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": false,
        "diffmenu": false,
        "editmenu": false,
        "combinedupgrade": false,
        "useask": false,
        "batchinstall": false
}

[evilhamsterman]

I'm not sure how the dirs got set to ~ but it appears it must not be expanding that