AUR Publish Troubleshooting

Use this runbook when the AUR release path fails, especially on SSH authentication.

Typical Failure Signatures

Permission denied (publickey)
Host key verification failed
missing AUR_USERNAME
missing AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY

Local SSH Sanity Check

mkdir -p /tmp/aur-debug && cd /tmp/aur-debug
cat > aur_key <<'KEY'
<PASTE_PRIVATE_KEY>
KEY
chmod 600 aur_key
ssh-keygen -y -f aur_key >/tmp/aur_key.pub

Expected:

the key parses successfully
no CI-incompatible passphrase prompt

Known Hosts Check

mkdir -p ~/.ssh && chmod 700 ~/.ssh
ssh-keyscan -H aur.archlinux.org >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/known_hosts

Remote Auth Check

ssh -i /tmp/aur-debug/aur_key \
  -o IdentitiesOnly=yes \
  -o StrictHostKeyChecking=yes \
  "${AUR_USERNAME}@aur.archlinux.org"

An immediate disconnect after auth is still acceptable. It proves the key is valid.

Repo Check

git ls-remote "ssh://${AUR_USERNAME}@aur.archlinux.org/openbitdo-bin.git"

If this fails, the AUR account or key pairing is still wrong.

After The Fix

rerun the release workflow
confirm publish-aur succeeds
confirm openbitdo-bin points at the new release tag

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