Introduction

A Zsh-Zplugin extension (i.e. an annex) that downloads files and applies patches. It adds two ice modifiers:

zplugin ice dl'{URL} [-> {optional-output-file-name}]; …' …

and

zplugin ice patch'{file-name-with-the-patch-to-apply}; …' …

The annex (i.e. Zplugin extension) will download the given {URL} under the path {optional-output-file-name} (if no file name given, then it is taken from last segment of the URL) in case of the dl'' ice-mod, and apply a patch given by the {file-name-with-the-patch-to-apply} in case of the patch'' ice-mod.

You can use this functionality to download and apply patches. For example, to install fbterm, two patches are being needed, one to fix the operation, the other one to fix the build:

zplugin ice \
    as"command" pick"$ZPFX/bin/fbterm" \
    dl"https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46860?getfile=13513 -> ins.patch" \
    dl"https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/plain/0001-Fix-build-with-gcc-6.patch?h=fbterm-git" \
    patch"ins.patch; 0001-Fix-build-with-gcc-6.patch" \
    atclone"./configure --prefix=$ZPFX" \
    atpull"%atclone" \
    make"install" reset
zplugin load izmntuk/fbterm

This command will result in:

Installation

Simply load like a plugin, i.e. the following will add the annex to Zplugin:

zplugin light zplugin/z-a-patch-dl

After executing this command you can then use the dl'' and patch'' ice-mods.