3.4.0 Hibiscus

[Elsie19]

Pacstall v3.4.0 Hibiscus

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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Features

• PACSTALL_DOWNLOADER variable to force set downloading tool by @henryws (feat(download): PACSTALL_DOWNLOADER variable #780)

Bug fixes

• Show size on -Qi and fix showing $pkgdir by @henryws (fix(query-info): add back size #778)
• Mark deb pacdeps as auto by @henryws (fix(deb): make deb pacdeps auto #779)

Changes

• Use dpkg-query instead of dpkg -s in query-info.sh by @henryws (ref: use dpkg-query instead of dpkg -s #777)

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How to use new features

PACSTALL_DOWNLOADER variable

If you wish to override the downloading tool used by Pacstall, you can set the PACSTALL_DOWNLOADER variable to either axel, wget, or curl like so:

PACSTALL_DOWNLOADER=axel pacstall -I emacs
#-------------#
export PACSTALL_DOWNLOADER=wget
pacstall -I emacs
#-------------#
PACSTALL_DOWNLOADER=curl pacstall -I emacs

Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
version="3.4.0"
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/3.4.0.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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This discussion was created from the release 3.4.0 Hibiscus.