PKGUPD is a better package manager and successor of appctl in rlxos, PKGUPD aims to be a modular/extensible package manager whose functionality can be increase using the modules
Working
PKGUPD uses YAML configuration files named recipe file that contains a minimal set of information about the specific package or sub-packages. As per the information, PKGUPD performs the tasks and calls the specified modules.
PKGUPD support 2 types of extensions:
- pack: This plugin provides a method to pack and unpack the binary packages that PKGUPD use to perform installations and package generation.
- plugin: (I know bad naming) This provided methods to compile the source codes.
PKGUPD currently provided 4 plugins:
- auto: Compilation plugin that can detect autogen.sh, configure, Makefile, CMakeLists.txt, meson.build and python setup.py
- port: Another compilation plugin that uses appctl port (like PKGBUILD files in arch linux).
- rlx: Packaging plugin that pack the binary packages in rlxos package format
- app: Another packaging plugin for AppImages format.
Example Recipe file
id: example.package
version: 0.1.0
about: |
Description about the package
pack: rlx
packages:
- id: subpackage
sources:
- https://url.to/source/codes.tar.gz
- custom-name.tar.xz::https://url.to/another/package.tar.gz
dir: code
plugin: auto
flags:
- id: configure
value: >
--enable-some-feature
| Node | About |
| id | Name of recipe |
| version | Version of recipe |
| about | Description about the recipe file |
| pack | plugin/module which is going the pack the output binary package |
| packages | List of packages the recipe file provides |
| sources | List of source files require by all subpackages* |
| prescript | Prescript execute during precompilation* |
| postscript | Post Script execute during postcompilation* |
| preinstall | Script execute during preinstallaton* |
| postinstall | Script execute during post installation* |
| environ | List of strings to export environment variables* |
| users | List of users required by the package* |
| groups | List of groups required by the package* |
Packages
| Node | About |
| id | Name of package |
| dir | Directory name of source code |
| sources | Source files url |
| plugin | plugin that compile the source code into binary package |
| flags | flags that plugin intake to customize the compilation |
Installation
sudo appctl sync
sudo appctl install pkgupd
Usage
pkgupd-0.1.0: an extensible package manager for rlxos
Usage: pkgupd [Sub] <pkgid> <Args>
Sub:
install install specified package from recipe dir
depends Resolve required dependencies
remove Remove specified application from system
info Print Information about pkgid
require Check which package require specified package
sync Synchronize local database with repositories
Args:
--help
--debug
--compile force pkgupd to compile package from source code
--force force task to do
--no-depends skip dependencies resolvement
--all Set ALL flag
File Hierarchy
| DIR/File | Description |
| /etc/pkgupd.yml | PKGUPD configuration file |
| /var/cache/pkgupd/recipes | Default path for recipe files |
| /var/cache/pkgupd/pkgs | Default path to store cache packages |
| /var/cache/pkgupd/src | Default path to store source codes |
| /var/lib/pkgupd/data | Default path to store information of installed packages |
| /usr/lib/pkgupd | Default path for PKGUPD plugins |