Updating packages from AUR when AUR is under maintenance
If we run an update command to include AUR pamac-cli will create an error message - and it so does yay so it may not be pamac specific but the alpm library which is the actual source of the message.
~ >>> pamac update --aur
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.manjaro.pamac.commit ====
Authentication is required
Authenticating as: fh
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ====
Synchronizing package databases...
Starting full system upgrade...
** (process:14521): CRITICAL **: 15:06:09.883: aur.vala:47: <data>:1:1: Parse error: unexpected character `<', expected value
Nothing to do.
Pamac does not break but maybe the error message could explain what the issue - the AUR repo is not responding as expected.
The current message will create confusion. Forum post