Version Selector

[Diegiwg]

As far as I know, pacscripts only support one version, which is usually the latest release.

The idea would be (if the maintainer wishes), to build a list of versions in a pacscript.

We can have the following syntax: pacstall -I package -v 1.0.0. It would install version 1.0.0 of the package, where: pacstall -I package would install version 5.4.0, which is the latest version of the package.

Inside the pacscript, we can have the following syntax:

pkgver() {
case "${USER_VERSION}" in
"1.0.0.")
url="https://example.com/package/linux_${USER_VERSION}_amd64.deb"
hash="48e9a77015695fe69390ac99b54184cf793f31c3452d174fcf41052ccb2ae211"
;;
"3.0.0.")
url="https://example.com/package/linux_${USER_VERSION}_amd64.deb"
hash="48e9a77015695fe69390ac99b54184cf793f31c3452d174fcf41052ccb2ae211"
;;
"6.0.0.")
url="https://example.com/package/v${USER_VERSION}/linux_${USER_VERSION}_amd64.deb"
hash="48e9a77015695fe69390ac99b54184cf793f31c3452d174fcf41052ccb2ae211"
;;
*) return 1 ;;
esac
}
version="$(pkgver)"

Would it be possible to do this?

[Diegiwg]

ping : @henryws

[Elsie19]

If you want, you can check /var/cache/pacstall/${name}/${version}/${name}.pacscript if you want older versions. Is that what you were after?

[Diegiwg]

No, the idea was to be a feature that lets you choose between available versions, like:

pacstall -I package -v 1.0.0
pacstall -I package -v 2.0.0
pacstall -I package -v 3.0.0

Assuming package.pacscript is exposing as available versions the 'array' ('1.0.0' '2.0.0' '3.0.0').

Oh like, if the person did: pacstall --query-info package. The available versions are returned.

[Elsie19]

What would the use-case of this be?

[Diegiwg]

I realized that if an old version is useful (like Java and the like), we can just have a "$name-$version-deb" package. So my idea is not valid. Thank you for your attention.