3.13.0 Immortelle

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Pacstall v3.13.0 Immortelle

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 $NCPU variable by @henryws (feat(pacscript): add NCPU variable bound to nproc #896, a98e9ab)

Bug fixes

• Add check for missing description by @henryws (fix(checks): add check for description #898)
• Prevent $name and $PACKAGE mismatch by @henryws (fix(checks): add check for name/PACKAGE mismatch #901)
• Do not log for packages that don't exist on removal by @henryws (fix(remove.sh): we do not need to log simple stuff #902)

Refactors

• Minify postscripts by @henryws (refactor(postscripts): minify for size #897)
• Replace date with printf by @henryws (refactor(*): use printf instead of date #903)
• ask function for replacing conflicting apt package swapped to default to Y by @henryws (fix(replace): do not prompt for replace #900)
• Minify nproc functions by @henryws (refactor(func): minify nproc lines #904)
• Remove question marks from upgrade questions by @henryws (af8a32c)
• Do not show 'packaging as' text when $name == $gives by @henryws (chan(makedeb): do not show packaging status if $name and $gives are the same #907)

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How to use new features

$NCPU variable

Everywhere that you would usually use $(nproc), you should replace with ${NCPU}.

# Old
make -j"$(nproc)"
# New
make -j"${NCPU}"

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
version="3.13.0"
description="An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu"
homepage='https://pacstall.dev'
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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