OVERVIEW

This directory contains pkgman, a package management tool that provides additional functionality to basic package management utilities like pkgmk and pkgutils.

This distribution is a fork of CRUX' prt-get tool as of commit da6bfb0 (Fri Oct 16 2020) with the following differences:

• the code has been rewritten from "C-like" coding standard to high-level C++17 primitives; this enabled aggressive optimization (-O3 and above), look at prt-get vs pkgman
• doxygen documentation has been improved and covers (almost?) all code
• so-called prt-cache functionality have been removed since there is no fundamental advantage while PageCache+NVMe are available
• prt.aliases functionality have been removed too
• manual pages in mdoc(7) format
• switch from autotools to Makefile
• rewritten command-line interface
• unified and improved commands output
• new commands
• dependency injection for sysup/update/remove commands
• quiet mode
• vim syntax highlight for pkgman.conf file
• etc

See git log for complete/further differences and COMPLEXITY.md for source code stats' differences.

The original sources can be downloaded from:

• https://git.crux.nu/tools/prt-get.git

REQUIREMENTS

Build time

• C++17 compiler (GCC 8 and later, Clang 5 and later)
• POSIX sh(1p), make(1p) and "mandatory utilities"

Runtime

• POSIX sh(1p) to execute pre/post scripts
• pkgmk to build packages
• pkgutils to add/update/remove packages

INSTALL

The shell commands make && make install should build and install this package.

For static linking you need to run make as the following:

make LDFLAGS="-static -lstdc++fs"

See config.mk file for configuration parameters, and src/pathnames.h for absolute filenames that pkgman wants for various defaults.

LICENSE

pkgman is licensed through the GNU General Public License v2 or later https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. Read the COPYING file for copying conditions. Read the COPYRIGHT file for copyright notices.