Auto updating packages

Auto updating

Currently, most of the packages hosted on github, gitlab or tracked by repology can be updated automatically by just setting TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true in build.sh.

You should also use scripts/bin/check-auto-update script to check whether a package can be auto-updated without writing custom steps or not.

If script returns false, you may want to write your own update steps. See here.

Auto update steps refrence

Following functions are used by update system.

Order specifies function sequence. 0 order specifies utility functions.

Suborder specifies a function triggered by the main function. Functions with different suborders are not executed simultaneously.

Order	Function Name	Overridable	Description	Parameters
0.1	termux_error_exit	No	Function to write error message to stderr and exit.	Any number of string arguments. You can use heredoc for long messages.
0.2	termux_github_api_get_tag	No	Query GitHub API for: • latest-release-tag: useful for projects using github's release mechanism. • newest-tag(sorted by commit date): useful for projects having tags but no releases.	• PKG_SRCURL - Source url of package. • TAG_TYPE - Optional. Type of tag to query. It is one of the queries mentioned in description. If not given it is decided on the basis of PKG_SRCURL. For urls ending in .git newest-tag is queried, otherwise latest-release-tag.
0.3	termux_gitlab_api_get_tag	No	same as above, but for gitlab	same as above, except for optional 3rd argument: • API_HOST - Host for gitlab api. Default gitlab.com.
0.4	termux_repology_api_get_latest_version	No	Query repology api for latest version.	• PKG_NAME - Name of the package to query for.
1	termux_pkg_auto_update	Yes	By default, decide which method (gitlab, github or repology) to use for update, but can be overrided to use custom method.	None
2.1	termux_github_auto_update	No	Default update method for packages hosted on github.com. It decides which type of tag to fetch based on TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL.	None
2.2	termux_gitlab_auto_update	No	Default update method for packages hosted on gitlab.com (or host specified by TERMUX_GITLAB_API_HOST). It decides which type of tag to fetch based on TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL.	None
3	termux_pkg_upgrade_version	No	Write the latest version and updated checksum, check whether updated package builds properly and then push changes to repo.	• LATEST_VERSION - version to write to build.sh. • --skip-version-check - Optional flag. Do not check whether given LATEST_VERSION is greater than current TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.
3.1	termux_pkg_is_update_needed	No	Check whether LATEST_VERSION is greater than TERMUX_PKG_VERSION or not. Called if --skip-version-check was not passed to termux_pkg_upgrade_version. NOTE: You should not call it manually otherwise if TERMUX_PKG_UPDATE_VERSION_REGEXP is used, it won't compare versions extracted from it. Version is extracted by termux_pkg_upgrade_version.	Not for public use.

Overriding

Where automatic update dosen't work, you may override termux_pkg_auto_update() function to write your own steps.

For example see neovim-nightly's build.sh.

• All functions marked as utility here, are available within termux_pkg_auto_update() or functions spawned by it.
• You should call termux_pkg_upgrade_version with LATEST_VERSION to write changes to build.sh

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Warning

Bash fail-fast (i.e set -euo pipefail) is set, so consider it during error handling.

Read more about bash fail-fast here.

For example:

Following code won't work as expected:

local curl_response
curl_response=$(curl --silent "https://example.com" --write-out '|%{http_code}')

# XXXX: following code won't execute if curl fails as script will exit immediately there.

local http_code="${curl_response##*|}"
if [[ "${http_code}" != "200" ]]; then
	echo "Error: failed to get latest version."
	exit 1
fi

Instead use something like:

local curl_response
curl_response=$(
	curl --silent "https://example.com" --write-out '|%{http_code}'
) || {
        # This will run as expected.
	local http_code="${curl_response##*|}"
	if [[ "${http_code}" != "200" ]]; then
		echo "Error: failed to get latest version"
		exit 1
	fi
}

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