Pacup

What is this?

Pacup (Pacscript Updater) is a maintainer helper tool to help maintainers update their pacscripts. It semi-automates the tedious task of updating pacscripts, and aims to make it a fun process for the maintainer! Originally written in Python, now in Perl.

Installation

To install the latest release run:

$ pacstall -I pacup

To install the latest development build run:

$ pacstall -I pacup-git

or

$ git clone https://github.com/pacstall/pacup.pl
$ cd pacup.pl
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ sudo make install

To develop in a nix shell run:

$ nix-shell

$PATH in the nix-shell includes ./pacup. Use cached-nix-shell for faster startup time.

Usage

USAGE: pacup [OPTIONS] PACSCRIPT...

OPTIONS:
    -v, --version
        Print version information and exit.

    -h, -?, --help
        Print this help message and exit.

    -r, --show-repology
        Print the parsed repology data and exit.

    -s, --ship
        Create a new branch and push the changes to git.

    -o, --origin-remote
        Specify the remote repository. Default is 'origin'.

    -c, --custom-version
        Set a custom version for the package to fetch, instead of querying
        Repology.

    -p, --push-force
        Force push to the branch, overwriting any existing one.

You can get this help text by running pacup --help.

You should visit our wiki, for more information on how to use the repology key.

How does it work?

Suppose foo.pacscript is outdated.

On running pacup foo.pacscript Pacup will parse the pacscript's variables, then it compiles a list of filters specified in the repology variable in the pacscript. Then it queries the Repology API to get all the repositories which have packaged that package. After which it applies the filter to the response, and from the filtrate it considers the most common version to be the latest.

Then it replaces all occurrences of the previous version's value in the url with the latest one placeholder's value with the latest version, and downloads the new package, and generates it's hash.

Then writes the edited pacscript and installs it with Pacstall, after installation it asks the user to confirm that the installed package works. On approval the pacscript is considered successfully upgraded and the program ends.

Caveats

• Does not work with -git pacscripts as those pacscripts are auto updating.
• Doesn't work if a pacscript doesn't have an equivalent Repology package.

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Copyright (C) 2022-present

This file is part of PacUp

PacUp is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

PacUp is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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