3.8.0 Citrine

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Pacstall v3.8.0 Citrine

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.

Users

Features

• Show package name at beginning and end of install by @henryws (feat(install-local): show package name at beginning and end #815)
• Allow updating with : delimiter by @D-Brox (feat(main): allow format username:branch for updates #818)
• Show hashes on mismatch by @henryws (feat(hashcheck): show broken hashes #821)

Developers, Developers, Developers...

Features

Everything from Users.

Bug fixes

• Remove SRCDIR at the end of install, not every package install by @henryws (fix(SRCDIR): remove at end of everything, no recreation #823)
• Logs are no longer user writable by @henryws (fix(error_log): logs in /var/log should not be user writable #825)

Removals

• Running of hash -r by @henryws (rm: useless hash -r run #826)

Changes

• Replace /tmp/pacstall-up-{list,urls,print} with mktemp by @henryws (fix(upgrade): use mktemp to prevent easy injection #816)
• Refactor hashcheck to remove sed command, quote variables by @henryws (refactor(install-local): quote everything, remove sed command #819)
• SRCDIR is created as the user, not with sudo by @henryws (fix(SRCDIR): create without sudo #824)

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How to use new features

: delimiter

When updating to certain repos/branches, you can replace the space with a :, however both styles will be allowed:

# Old
$ pacstall -U pacstall develop

# Alternative
$ pacstall -U pacstall:develop

Hash mismatch

Image

Pacscript for this releases Deb

name="pacstall"
version="3.8.0"
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 <pacstall@pm.me>"
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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This discussion was created from the release 3.8.0 Citrine.