Support for apx

[Zahrun]

I want to suggest a new step

Which tool is this about? Where is its repository?

https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/apx

Which operating systems are supported by this tool?

Linux

What should Topgrade do to figure out if the tool needs to be invoked?

apx command exists

Which exact commands should Topgrade run?

apx update
apx upgrade

[jim3692]

It's more complicated than that. You also need to specify which distro you want to update (ex apx --dnf update ; apx --dnf upgrade), or which named container you want to update (ex apx --dnf --name fedora_1 update ; apx --dnf --name fedora_1 upgrade)

[Zahrun]

Actually the distrobox step might already do the work if it functions well

[jim3692]

Which distrobox step? Is there already a better way to do that?

[Zahrun]

See https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade/blob/master/src/steps/os/linux.rs#L638
It runs /usr/bin/distrobox upgrade --all
Will this upgrade apx installed packages automatically?

[jim3692]

I was not aware of that. Thank you for pointing it. However I spotted a small issue that should be solved on distobox's side. It looks like they do not support yay, which is used for AUR packages.

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/0e24aae53ae6e2fd6901db3556de9e6b261e7a6f/distrobox-init#L458

[EDIT 1] There is this PR about yay and paru which was rejected 89luca89/distrobox#569

[s34m]

Can I close this issue? @jim3692 @Zahrun

[jim3692]

@DottoDev we can probably close it for now, and we will open it again when the work in apx side is complete, or I will try to make a PR for apx support

[s34m]

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