Check updates for Pacstall 🦙

This script allows you to check for a pacstall update (currently the script only checks for official releases) and run additional actions.

Download pacstall-check-update.py, place it wherever you want and make it executable.

If you simply run the script, it will show a text message if there's an update available. Some options set actions that will happen after that:

• -1/--non-zero will make the script exit with non-zero exit status if there's an update available. This can be useful for aliases (see below).
• -u/--update will run pacstall -U pacstall master immediately if there's an update available.
• -n/--notify will show desktop notification if there's an update available. Requires libnotify-bin package to be installed.

There are a few more options:

• --systemd-service {enable,disable} — enables/disables a systemd user service that will run pacstall-check-update.py -n on start (= after login and network connection) and then every 12 hours.
• --notify-icon ICON_NAME — changes the icon for notification, works for both -n and --systemd-service enable.

Examples:

alias pacstall='pacstall-check-update.py -1 && pacstall'

^ Set this for your shell (in ~/.bashrc for bash) to prevent running any pacstall command until it will be updated to the latest version (use pacstall-check-update.py -u for it).

pacstall-check-update.py -n

^ If you don't want to use systemd service, add this command to autostart and you will see a notification about an available update on log in.

pacstall-check-update.py --systemd-service enable --notify-icon utilities-x-terminal

^ Enables systemd service, and notifications sent by it will use utilities-x-terminal icon.