5.4.0 Quinacridone

[oklopfer]

Pacstall v5.4.0 Quinacridone

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.

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Features

• Add regular suggests array by @oklopfer (feat(*): add regular suggests array #1195)
• Keyword (-Sd) and info (-Si) search by @oklopfer (feat(search.sh): keyword and info search #1201)
• Add repo aliases by @oklopfer and @Elsie19 (feat(repo): add aliases #1203)

Bug Fixes

• CARCH/AARCH replaces in srcinfo by @oklopfer (fix(srcinfo.sh): CARCH/AARCH replaces #1190)
• Parse . named packages properly in srcinfo by @oklopfer (fix(srcinfo.sh): parse . properly #1192)
• Mark prerm file executable by @oklopfer (fix(build.sh): mark prerm file executable #1193)
• Log all relations with version constraints by @oklopfer (fix(build.sh): log all relations with dep const #1198)
  • relations: provides, replaces, conflicts, breaks, suggests, recommends
• Re-order replaces removal by @oklopfer (fix({package,build}.sh): re-order replaces removal #1199)
• Quote for loop entries (enhanced optdepends) by @oklopfer (fix({checks,fetch-sources}.sh): quote for loop entries #1200)
• optdepends bleeding by @oklopfer (fix(build.sh): dependency bleed #1204)

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How to use the new features

suggests array

Like the other relations arrays, suggests now allows you to add packages to the control file's Suggests, without doing it through optdepends. This is most useful for when building static packages, to use instead of optdepends, as optdepends that are installed on the system are marked as Depends.

Additionally, all package relations can now use version constraints, just as depends.

keyword and info search

-Sd/--search-description
Like search, but both displays descriptions on output, and searches through descriptions upon the query. To do a case-sensitive search, use quotes within quotes ("''" or'""').

pacstall -Sd browser # search for all packages which have browser in their name or description

pacstall -Sd "'Browser'" # search for all packages which have Browser in their description

-Si/--search-info
Display metadata (SRCINFO) of a remote package. Only accepts real package names.

pacstall -Si package

pacstall -Si package@github:user/reponame

pacstall -Si ${parent}:pkgbase

pacstall -Si ${parent}:${child}

repo aliases

The pacstallrepo file now accepts an optional new format. There is one optional component and one required component:

url @alias

Where alias is optional. url is the raw url to a git repository. This should not end in .git, and should normally end in user/reponame. alias can be anything alphanumeric, must be space separated, and must begin with the @ symbol.

This would be useful if you wanted to do something like pacstall -I pkg@pacstall vs pacstall -I pkg@enhanced where pacstall is the official repository and enhanced is your repository with additional modifications, instead of pacstall -I pkg@github:pacstall/pacstall-programs and pacstall -I pkg@github:me/pacstall-enhanced-repo, or other various long links.

To add an alias, either edit /usr/share/pacstall/repo/pacstallrepo and follow the format above, one repo for each line, or use the -A command to add a new repo:

pacstall -A github:user/pacstall-repo @myrepo

To remove an alias without removing the repo, edit /usr/share/pacstall/repo/pacstallrepo. To remove an an aliased repo, any of the following would work:

pacstall -Rr github:user/pacstall-repo @myrepo

pacstall -Rr github:user/pacstall-repo

pacstall -Rr @myrepo

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Pacscript for this releases Deb

pkgname="pacstall"
pkgver="5.4.0"
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 and update downstream programs,
without scouring github repos and the likes."
url='https://pacstall.dev'
depends=(
  'bash'
  'curl'
  'wget'
  'git'
  'unzip'
  'zstd'
  'tar'
  'sensible-utils'
  'iputils-ping'
  'lsb-release'
  'aptitude'
  'bubblewrap'
  'build-essential'
  'jq'
  'distro-info-data'
)
optdepends=(
  "axel: faster file downloads"
  "ninja-build: common building tool"
  "meson: common building tool"
  "spdx-licenses: commonly provided licenses"
)
maintainer=(
  "Pacstall Team <[email protected]>"
  "Elsie19 <[email protected]>"
)
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/"
}

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
}

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