`aura` returns `Permission denied (publickey)` when fetching packages from AUR

[christarazi]

aura >>= Building python-pipenv-git...
Cloning into bare repository '/var/cache/aura/vcs/python-pipenv-git/python-pipenv-git/python-pipenv-git'...
[email protected]: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading python-pipenv-git git repo
    Aborting...

aura >>= There was a makepkg failure.

I am running aura like

sudo -E aura --hotedit --aursync --delmakedeps --noconfirm --sysupgrade

If I run ssh -vT [email protected] in my regular shell, I can see that GitHub accepts the authentication. If I do env -i -- ssh -vT [email protected], then I get the same message as the above.

It seems that aura is clobbering other environment variables which are relevant to my SSH authentication. Any advice here?

[fosskers]

Hi, thanks for the report. sudo -E has traditionally not worked very well. As an initial experiment, would you be willing to try the alpha of the next major version of Aura? It handles sudo in a different way, likely avoiding environment variable problems related to git.

Note that an explicit sudo isn't necessary with the new version. The equivalent command would be:

aura --aursync --delmakedeps --sysupgrade

or just

aura -Aua

Looking at aura -Ah it seems I haven't yet ported --noconfirm for -A. I will make that a priority.

[fosskers]

I just released 4.0.0-alpha10 which provides --noconfirm for -A.

[fosskers]

Hi there, as this should not longer be occurring, I'm going to close this issue. Aura 4 will be released soon.