stack-updater is a simple utility to ease Solus development. It's been written to automate big software stack updates (meaning pieces of software that come split in many packages), so that maintainers won't need to fetch tarballs manually and bump the release number in every package definition file anymore.
stack-updater doesn't need to be run on Solus to work.
stack-updater works by parsing the download page of a chosen software stack. Generally, these HTML pages are composed of a list (<ul>...items...</ul>) with tarball URLs so it's fairly easy to extract information from such contents.
After the list extraction, we check the Solus Unstable repository by downloading and reading the proper .xml file, and if a package is both in the repository and in the fetched list, stack-updater if needed will download the package definition files and update the package.yml file with new data.
The --help flag should provide all the necessary information. Anyway, here are some examples on how to run the command (note the : to separate stack name from a bundle):
stack-updater update kde:applications 19.04.0
stack-updater update mate 1.23
stack-updater update kde:frameworks 5.56 -t /destination/directorymaketo build the binarymake install PREFIX=/my/prefixto install it
Optionally, you can run make test to ensure that tests pass before installing.
- libgit2 (dynamically linked)
xzcommand
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