3.11.0 Peachpuff

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Pacstall v3.11.0 Peachpuff

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 backup array by @henryws (feat(pacscript): add backup key #855)
• Allow long descriptions by @henryws (feat(pacscript): allow long descriptions #860)

Changes

• Make prompt_optdepends more explicit by @henryws (fix(select_options): make everything more explicit #861)

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How to use new features

backup

The backup array is used to declare configuration files outside of /etc (they are automatically included by dpkg). The syntax is the same as it's PKGBUILD counterpart with one special exception.

backup=(
  'usr/share/pac.conf'
  'r:usr/share/pacconfig.conf'
)

The r: flag means that the file must be deleted on the next upgrade, which could be used for outdated configuration files¹

Long descriptions

Simply make a multiline string like so:

description="Shows Linux System Information with Distribution Logo
Neofetch is a cross-platform and easy-to-use system information
command line script that collects your Linux system information
and display it on the terminal next to an image, it could be your
distributions logo or any ascii art of your choice."

Pacstall will automatically make a deb control file formatted entry as a long description. Blank lines are allowed.

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
version="3.11.0"
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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Footnotes

1. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/deb-conffiles.5.html ↩