3.3.0 Iris

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Pacstall v3.3.0 Iris

This update is a quality of life update focusing on important bug fixes and adding requested features. Users can update from Pacstall 1.6 or higher with pacstall -U pacstall master, or reinstall using the deb file.

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Changes

• Change all references from pwd to $PWD by @henryws (ref(pwd): pwd -> $PWD #770)

Bug fixes

• Quote build_depends array internally by @henryws (fix(arrays): quote and split #768)
• Always show missing repo optdepends by @henryws (fix(prompt_optdepends): always show missing optdeps #772)
• Set homedir using ~$USER bashism instead of /home/$USER by @henryws (fix(homedir): detect any home dir, not just /home #769)
  • This allows for non-standard home directories to be used.

Features

• Allow buildtime optional dependencies by @henryws (fix(prompt_optdepends): prevent only adding non-installed pkgs to suggests #767)
  • This also fixes optional dependencies being added to Depends and some not installed being added to Suggests. They are all added to Suggests now.

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How to use new features

Buildtime optional dependencies

Pacstall previously installed optional dependencies along with the created deb, leading to only optional dependencies that could be used after a package compilation working. Now you can specify any buildtime dependencies in optdepends and they will be installed before the compilation/install.

Note
You may still have to check what packages are installed if the compilation requires passing flags to a build script to enable said features.

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
version="3.3.0"
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/develop.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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