Pacstall v1.4 Turkuaz

[Elsie19]

Pacstall v1.4 Turkuaz

Users

In short

Features

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Additions

• You can run pacstall -T <pkg> to view a tree of the package files
• pacstall -Qi will output whether a package was installed as a dependency of another or if it was expicitly installed
• Update branches/repo are now persistent meaning that if you update to a different branch/repo, you will continue updating to that same branch when you run pacstall -U

Changes

• Pacstall now runs without sudo (it still uses root privileges internally)

Bugs

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Bug Fixes

• Many, didn't count :p

Known bugs

• Pacstall isn't printing help if no flags are given #27
• Multiple package inputs does not work

Developers, Developers, Developers...

In short

Additions

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• Everything from Users
• Pacdeps can be used recursivly. An example would be that package A depends on B which depends on C.

Changes

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• The metadata logger will record variables with an underscore (_) in front to avoid confusion with pacscript variables

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This discussion was created from the release Pacstall v1.4 Turkuaz.

[0oAstro]

WDYM Without sudo? It builds packages using fakeroot or it just uses sudo privilege for anything that requires installing, compiling and removing.

[Elsie19]

Sudo priveleges aren't needed to run pacstall. Packages still need to use sudo when appropriate. It won't run with fakeroot yet (that's for the 1.5 release)

[0oAstro]

Oh ok, I would help in the fakeroot part.

[Elsie19]

Oh ok, I would help in the fakeroot part.

That would be great! Can you join the discord