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Pacstall v1.5 Twilight

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Pacstall v1.5 Twilight

This update is a QoL update focusing on bug fixes and adding requested features. Also it is recommended to rerun the install script as opposed to running pacstall -U because of big code changes that are best updated to by reinstalling.

Users

In short

Features

Additions

• Multi-repo support. You can add a github repo, lets say, by running pacstall -A https://github.com/user/repo
• Deb support has been added
• If aria2 is installed, pacstall will download a package in multiple chunks
• -S flag is overhauled with new multi-repo support

Changes

• The -C flag is removed in favor of the -A flag
• Upgrading packages now takes into account the repo of origin

Bugs

Bug fixes

• Fix for not printing help if no flags are given
• Fix for ls errors on install
• Many others, didn't count :p

Bugs

• Bulk install doesn't work, planned for 1.6

Developers, Developers, Developers...

In short

Additions

• Everything from Users
• Global dir constants (you can set where you want packages to be downloaded, scripts to be located, logging location, etc)
• Deb support has been added (see here for an example).

Changes

• change-repo.sh -> add-repo.sh
• removescript variable is deprecated in favor of just the function
• The -S flag shows which repo a package is from (following multi-repo support)
• The -S flag also includes repo hyperlinks if the terminal supports them (iTerm2, terminology, VTE-based, etc)
• The metadata logger will log _remoterepo and _remotebranch for use in updating