4.0.0 Popstar

[Elsie19]

Pacstall v4.0.0 Popstar

This update is a major update focusing on quality of life features and enhanced functionality. Users can update from Pacstall 3.14.0 or higher with pacstall -U pacstall:master, or reinstall using the deb file.

Users

Features

• Fancy -L printing by @Elsie19 (feat(-L): add fancy listing #932, refactor(pacstall): inline size_of_deb #938, fix(-L): hide no install error on non-interactive #943)

Developers, Developers, Developers...

BREAKING CHANGES

• Remove old deprecations, move more variables to PACBUILD by @Elsie19 (feat!(pacscript): convert variables to PACBUILD equivs #926)
  • Add pkgrel variable
  • Cascading errors instead of failing out at the first error

Features

• Add metadata queries to -Qi by @Elsie19 (feat(-Qi): add queries #934, perf(-Qi): use name references instead of subshells #937)
• Download url if -B is used on -deb package by @Elsie19 (feat(-B): download deb if is deb package #935)

Fixes

• Skip PACSTALL_PAYLOAD on pacdeps by @Elsie19 (fix(PACSTALL_PAYLOAD): skip if pacdep #881)
• Use declare -p to log pacdeps instead of raw array by @Elsie19 (fix(log): use declare to avoid possible string splitting #939)
• Split LOGDIR into LOGDIR and METADIR by @Elsie19 (fix(logdir): split LOGDIR into LOGDIR and METADIR #940)
• Add foreign dpkg architectures for arch by @oklopfer (fix(pacstall): add FARCH array #942)
• Do not force remove dependency by @Elsie19 (fix(-L,install): missed elif, do not remove dependant #944)
• Show full URL names on check_url instead of appending possibly wrong text by @Elsie19 (fix(check_url): use fullname instead of appending /packagelist #946)
• Run preinst if deb pacscript has it by @Elsie19 (fix(deb): run preinst if pacstall has it #947)

Performance changes

• Replace $(date) with builtin printf by @Elsie19 (refactor(date): replace subshell calls to date with printf #933)
• Add --no-generate flag to apt-cache by @Elsie19 (perf(prompt_optdepends): do not regen cache on every apt-cache run #948)

Style changes

• Hide cursor on dep tree run by @Elsie19 (style(upgrade): hide cursor on dep tree #941)
• Add question marks to all ask function calls by @oklopfer (fix(pacstall): ask punctuation #949)

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How to use features

PACBUILD variables

If you are a pacscript maintainer, there are a couple things you must do:

1. Merging of version and pkgver() (variable/function)
2. description -> pkgdesc (variable)
3. build_depends -> makedepends (array)
4. postinst -> post_install (function)
5. preinst -> pre_install (function)
6. removescript -> post_remove (function)
7. pkgrel (variable)

For the merging of version and pkgver(), you'll need to do the following steps:

If you are a non-git package, rename version to pkgver. If you are a git package, add the pkgver variable and the pkgver() function. The variable should have the latest tag at the time of updating the pacscript, and the pkgver() function should retrieve the latest shasum.

So basically, if you are a non-git package, you have to change a variable name, and if you are a git package, you remove version="$(pkgver)" and add pkgver=<tag>.

We also are introducing the pkgrel variable. This can be used when you wish to trigger an update on a users computer but ${pkgver} has not been changed, such as fixing a broken build process. Unlike PKGBUILDs, this variable is optional and will default to 1 if not included.

👉 Click here to get a simple script to get the tag

url="put in url here"
ver="$(git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-' ls-remote --tags --sort='v:refname' "${url}" \
    | cut --delimiter='/' --fields=3     \
    | tr '-' '~'                         \
    | sort --version-sort                \
    | tail --lines=1)"
if [[ -z ${ver} ]]; then
  echo "0.0.1" # pkgver should be 0.0.1 if they have no tags yet
else
  echo "${ver}"
fi

📝 Examples

Here we have an old pacscript snippet:

name="foo"
version="1.0.2"
description="A fast fooer"
build_depends=('foo-dev' 'fork')

To convert to 4.0.0, this pacscript should look like this:

name="foo"
pkgver="1.0.2"
pkgdesc="A fast fooer"
makedepends=('foo-dev' 'fork')

Let's try a git pacscript now:

name="foo"
description="A fast fooer"
build_depends=('foo-dev' 'fork')
pkgver() {
  git ls-remote "${url}" master | cut -f1 | cut -c1-8
}
version="$(pkgver)"

To convert to 4.0.0, we do this:

name="foo"
pkgver="3.15.0"
pkgdesc="A fast fooer"
makedepends=('foo-dev' 'fork')
pkgver() {
  git ls-remote "${url}" master | cut -f1 | cut -c1-8
}

More informational -L

If you run pacstall -L now, you'll be seeing something different than before:

This will show you much more information about the package. -Qi can still be used to query an individual package information. If -L detects it's being used non-interactively, it will fallback to the old style, which is much more suited for for scripting, so if you are using the output of pacstall -L in a script, nothing should change for you.

Metadata queries in -Qi

Previously, if you wanted the raw metadata to parse or use, you would have to source the metadata file and run what you needed on that. That's not the most effective, so now you can add a second argument to -Qi, which is the name of the piece of metadata you want. They follow the output of -Qi sections, and spaces are replaced with underscores:

-B downloading url on deb packages

The -B flag, which is used to create but not install a deb, doesn't make much sense to use on a deb pacscript, so now, -B on any deb package will download url instead.

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
pkgver="4.0.0"
pkgdesc="An AUR-inspired package manager for Ubuntu
Pacstall is the AUR Ubuntu wishes it had. It takes the concept of the AUR
and puts a spin on it, making it easier to install programs without scouring
github repos and the likes"
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/tags/${pkgver}.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/"
}

package() {
	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" >/dev/null
	sudo chmod +x "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/scripts"/*
}

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