3.9.0 Denim

[Elsie19]

Pacstall v3.9.0 Denim

This update is a quality of life update focusing on important bug fixes and adding requested features. Users can update from Pacstall 3.0.0 or higher with pacstall -U pacstall master, or reinstall using the deb file.

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Features

• Add PACSTALL_PAYLOAD variable by @wizard-28 (feat(pacstall): add PACSTALL_PAYLOAD support #838)
• Local update support by @henryws (feat(update.sh): allow local updates #840)
• Add preinst function by @henryws (feat: add preinst function #842)

Bug fixes

• Add pacdeps to Depends implicitly by @henryws (fix(pacdeps): pacdeps are implicit deps to parent package #839, fix(pacdeps): also check if deps no exist #846)
• Multiple ranges in select_options works again by @henryws (refactor: quote variables & use mapfile wherever possible #841)
• Backwards ranges disallowed by @henryws (fix(select_options): only allow ranges from smallest to greatest #849)
• Same number ranges disallowed by @henryws (fix(select_options): ranges cannot go from num to num #850)
• Explicitly installed optdepends are Depends by @henryws (fix(deps): explicitly chosen optdepends are Depends #843)
• Set CARCH before sourcing by @henryws (fix(CARCH): set before source #848)

Changes

• Mapfile some split variables instead of relying on bash splitting by @henryws (refactor: quote variables & use mapfile wherever possible #841)
• curl instead of wget is used inside update.sh by @henryws (feat(update.sh): allow local updates #840)
• Localize more variables by @henryws (fix: localize as many vars as possible #845)

Performance changes

• Use native bash glob instead of grep, use cut instead of awk by @henryws (perf(install-local): use cut instead of awk, use bash globs instead of grep #844)

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How to use new features

PACSTALL_PAYLOAD

Warning
This feature only pertains to pacup, and should not be used unless you know what you're doing

You can pass an already downloaded url to pacstall to skip the redownloading of said file with the environmental variable PACSTALL_PAYLOAD:

PACSTALL_PAYLOAD=$PWD/neofetch-7.1.0.zip pacstall -I neofetch

Local updates

When developing Pacstall, devs may wish to install their local copy of the pacstall repo rather than wait for a CDN to update before they can, so, inside a cloned pacstall repository, run pacstall -U .. Note that you must pass the input ., and not a path. If you wish to keep updating on that repo, you must continue to run pacstall -U . as the repo retention is set to pacstall:master.

preinst function

Note
This is not run by Pacstall. This will be run while the deb is unpacking.

Some Pacscript maintainers may wish to add a function to be run before the deb is installed, which can now be accomplished with the preinst function. It is written the same way as postinst and removescript.

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
version="3.9.0"
description="An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu"
depends="bash curl wget unzip build-essential sensible-utils git"
optdepends=(
	"axel: faster file downloads"
)
maintainer="Pacstall Team <[email protected]>"
url="https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall/archive/refs/heads/${version}.zip"

prepare() {
	sudo mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
	sudo mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/scripts/"
	sudo mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/repo/"
	sudo mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man8/"
	sudo mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/var/log/pacstall/error_log/"
}

install() {
	sudo install -Dm 755 pacstall "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
	sudo install -C "misc/scripts"/* "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/scripts/"
	sudo install "misc/pacstall.8.gz" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man8/"
	echo "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pacstall/pacstall-programs/master" | sudo tee "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/repo/pacstallrepo.txt" >/dev/null
	sudo chmod +x "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/scripts"/*
}

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