Option to disable the retry ask for news

[Marzal]

Hi, I recently discover this yay or paru alternative and I's great!
The only problem that I have it's that Arch News page it's failing a lot, making each upgrade a failed attempt to parse, having to enter "n" before getting to the updates.

🚛 error: GET https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/
🚛 error: urllib: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
¿Reintentar? [S/n] n
🚛 error: No pude obtener noticias de archlinux.org

It's there a command line option or at least a configuration to disable this question and just continue if the Arch web it's not available?

I haven't found anything similar on the documentation or this repo.

PD: Thanks for this great project.

[cinnamonmatexfce]

It's there a command line option or at least a configuration to disable this question and just continue if the Arch web it's not available?

As a temporary (and bad) workaround, you can "hack" the show unread Arch news before sysupgrade feature by declaring another feed to the respective declaration into the Pikaur's .conf file; example:

$ grep --color=none '^newsurl = ' ~/.config/pikaur.conf 
newsurl = https://www.kernel.org/feeds/all.atom.xml

[Marzal]

Thanks I tried this:

• Commenting newsurl -> Works the first run, but it's un-commented by pikaur
• newsurl = "" -> errors raise ValueError("unknown url type: %r" % self.full_url)
• newsurl = https://www.kernel.org/feeds/all.atom.xml -> Your workaround works but then I no longer will have Arch News 😅

PD: Better log

🚛 depurar: news: init
🚛 depurar: news: fetch_latest
=> GET https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/
🚛 error: GET https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/
🚛 error: urllib: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
🚛 depurar: prompt: Gonna get input from user...
🚛 depurar: FileLock: Acquiring /tmp/pikaur_prompt_819793.lock...
🚛 depurar: FileLock: Acquired /tmp/pikaur_prompt_819793.lock
🚛 depurar: prompt_nolock: Restoring TTY...
🚛 depurar: prompt_nolock: Using standard input reader...

I was able to track the News call to

pikaur/pikaur/install_cli.py

Line 253 in e038b4b

if self.args.sysupgrade:

And the code handling the question to

pikaur/pikaur/urllib_helper.py

Line 21 in e038b4b

NOCONFIRM_RETRY_INTERVAL: "Final" = 3

[actionless]

feel free to add a PR which would add and properly document config/cli option to not retrieve Arch News

[Marzal]

Thanks, I did study the code a bit, but I'm no developer. I will try to learn more Python to see if I'm capable 👍

I was thinking on making NOCONFIRM_RETRY_INTERVAL: "Final" = 3 a config parameter. Assuming that NOCONFIRM_RETRY_INTERVAL = 0 would not ask for retrying. But editing /usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pikaur/urllib_helper.py I did see that's a timeout period if I use --noconfirm.

So I will try to see if I can make autoretry a config option.

[actionless]

option to not retrieve Arch News

i didn't told anything about changing autoretry, as i don't see it being helpful for normally functioning system/connection