6.2.0 Picton

[oklopfer]

Pacstall v6.2.0 Picton

This update is a quality of life update focusing on important bug fixes and adding requested features. Users can update from Pacstall 4.0.0 or higher with pacstall -U pacstall:master, or reinstall using the deb file. The prebuilt deb is also available from the Chaotic PPR, using sudo apt install pacstall.

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Features

• Allow env to define TMPDIR by @oklopfer (feat(pacstall): allow env to define TMPDIR #1334, fix(*): respect TMPDIR override #1341)
• Add list -Lu/--list-upgrades command by @oklopfer (feat(upgrade.sh): add list only option #1312)
• Add -M/--mark command + allow local installs to be picked up by upgrade by @oklopfer (ref(*): allow local installs to be picked up by upgrade #1339)

Bug Fixes

• Fix origin url index of packages when masking by @D-Brox (fix(search): fix origin url index of packages when masking packages #1331)
• Allow dest to define extraction method when source doesn't by @oklopfer (fix({fetch-sources,package}.sh): allow dest to define extr when source doesn't #1333)
• Repair split package upgrades by @oklopfer (fix({srcinfo,upgrade}.sh): repair split pkg upgrades #1332)
• Exit 1 on CI (in)compatible check again by @Elsie19 (chan(package): exit 1 on CI incompat again #1338)

Translations

• Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate (Translations update from Hosted Weblate #1329, Translations update from Hosted Weblate #1340, Translations update from Hosted Weblate #1342)

Current translation status:

See https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall#translations for how to help.

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How to use the new features

PACSTALL_TMPDIR environment variable

Normally, downloads, extractions, and builds are done in /tmp/pacstall. However, certain packages may have very large download or build sizes, and on many devices, this results in a filled up /tmp and incomplete building.

To work around this, users can now define the environment variable PACSTALL_TMPDIR to serve in place of /tmp throughout all processes. It should be defined without a trailing slash. If PACSTALL_TMPDIR is not defined, it falls back to being /tmp.

-Lu/--list-upgrades command

Before this flag, if users wanted to check what packages are marked for upgrades, they would have to run -Up, then cancel out the upgrade prompt. Now users can simply run pacstall -Lu to list upgrades without upgrading.

-M/--mark command

Previously, if a package was installed locally from a pacscript rather than from a repo, it would not be able to be picked up for upgrades. This has now been aligned with APT, and will automatically search in available repos for a locally installed package and upgrade it if it exists. In place of the old behavior, -M allows you to mark packages to be held from upgrade. Its usage is as follows:

pacstall -M foobar-bin hold # keeps foobar-bin from being checked for upgrades
pacstall -M foobar-bin unhold # lets foobar-bin upgrade again

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

pkgname="pacstall"
pkgver="6.2.0"
arch=("all")
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 and update downstream programs,
without scouring github repos and the likes."
url='https://pacstall.dev'
depends=(
  'bash'
  'curl'
  'wget'
  'git'
  'unzip'
  'zstd'
  'tar'
  'gzip'
  'sensible-utils'
  'iputils-ping'
  'lsb-release'
  'aptitude'
  'bubblewrap'
  'build-essential'
  'jq'
  'distro-info-data'
  'gettext'
)
makedepends=(
  'gettext'
  'gzip'
)
recommends=(
  'axel'
  'ninja-build'
  'meson'
  'spdx-licenses'
)
maintainer=(
  "Pacstall Team <pacstall@pm.me>"
  "Elsie19 <hwengerstickel@pm.me>"
)
backup=('usr/share/pacstall/repo/pacstallrepo' 'usr/share/pacstall/update')
source=("https://github.com/pacstall/pacstall/archive/refs/tags/${pkgver}.zip")

prepare() {
  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/scripts/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/repo/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man8/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man5/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/var/log/pacstall/error_log/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/var/lib/pacstall/metadata/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/var/cache/pacstall/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/src/pacstall/"
  mapfile -t linguas <"misc/po/LINGUAS"
  for lang in "${linguas[@]}"; do
    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/locale/${lang}/LC_MESSAGES/"
  done
}

package() {
  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  install -Dm755 pacstall "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
  install -Dm755 "misc/scripts"/* "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/scripts/"
  gzip -9n misc/man/pacstall.8
  gzip -9n misc/man/pacstall.5
  install "misc/man/pacstall.8.gz" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man8/"
  install "misc/man/pacstall.5.gz" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man5/"
  install "misc/completion/fish" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/pacstall.fish"
  install "misc/completion/bash" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pacstall"
  echo "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pacstall/pacstall-programs/master" | tee "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/repo/pacstallrepo" > /dev/null
  mapfile -t linguas <"misc/po/LINGUAS"
  for lang in "${linguas[@]}"; do
    msgfmt -o "${pkgdir}/usr/share/locale/${lang}/LC_MESSAGES/pacstall.mo" "misc/po/${lang}.po"
  done
  rm -f "${pkgdir}/usr/share/scripts/update.sh"
}

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