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yay fails to update some packages

Open E-Pony opened this issue 10 months ago • 2 comments

Affected Version

yay v12.4.2 - libalpm v15.0.0

Describe the bug

updating certain aur packages fail with error

Packages affected

librewolf-bin proton-pass-bin proton-mail-bin

Reproduction Steps

yay -Syu

packages fail

Expected behavior

Packages to not fail

Output

**error fetching librewolf-bin: fatal: not a git repository (or any parent up to mount point /) Stopping at filesystem boundary (GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM not set). context: exit status 128 **

###Additional comments

This bug dose not appear on other aur helpers (this is also my first issue- sorry if i messed it up)

E-Pony avatar Feb 21 '25 17:02 E-Pony

Hey @E-Pony , I could not reproduce this. Have you tried removing extra entries in ~/.gitconfig and and running yay -Scc (or manually removing ~/.cache/yay before retrying?

Jguer avatar Apr 24 '25 09:04 Jguer

Hello, I was able to fix it by manually removing ~/.cache/yay as yay -Scc did nothing.

E-Pony avatar Apr 25 '25 10:04 E-Pony

Closing as non reproducible for now

Jguer avatar Sep 30 '25 21:09 Jguer