3.10.0 Elsie

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Pacstall v3.10.0 Elsie

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 homepage property by @henryws (feat(pacscript): add homepage property #853)

Bug fixes

• Unquote return statement on version checker in upgrade.sh by @wizard-28 (fix(upgrade): numeric argument bug #857)

Performance changes

• Remove grep entirely by @henryws (perf(grep): remove grep cases for bash regex #854)
• Remove basename entirely by @henryws (perf: remove basename command #856)

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How to use new features

homepage

In your Pacscripts, you can specify a homepage variable like so:

homepage='https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox'

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
version="3.10.0"
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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