Pacstall v5.0.1 Toucan 
This update is a bugfix update for bugs present in 5.0.0 Canary found and reported by the community. Users can update from Pacstall 4.0.0 or higher with pacstall -U pacstall:master, or reinstall using the deb file.
Developers, Developers, Developers...
Bug Fixes
- Allow option flags in the
-Qacommand by @D-Brox in #1102 - Fix insane
sttydue to& waitin for-loop (again) by @D-Brox in #1103 - Repair
pacdepsupdating by @oklopfer in #1100 - Repair deb
-Bdownloads by @oklopfer in #1107 - Properly handle pre-existing parentheses by @oklopfer in #1109
- Fix DNS resolution in the sandbox by @D-Brox in #1101
- Log previously installed pacdeps as such by @oklopfer in #1108
Refactoring and minor changes
- Replace directories with the corresponding *DIR variables by @D-Brox (#/1105)
- Remove the deprecated
/tmp/pacstall-pacdepby @D-Brox in (#1104) - Normalize script names by @D-Brox (#1098)
- Re-run
shfmtandchmod +xthe scripts by @oklopfer (#1099)
For the Pacscript Maintainers
Important
Breaking changes to the pacscript spec where added in 5.0.0 (Release)
Refer to the release notes when updating pacscripts in the official or third party repos.
Pacscript for this releases Deb
pkgname="pacstall"
pkgver="5.0.1"
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'
'ninja-build'
'meson'
'jq'
)
optdepends=(
"axel: faster file downloads"
)
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/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"/* "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pacstall/scripts/"
install "misc/pacstall.8.gz" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/man/man8/"
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
}