Dram - Keeping your package manager packaged

Author: Scott Torborg

Dram is a POSIX-specific tool for managing shell environments. The basic goal is to make it possible to install new shell-based software, from a number of different sources, with the confidence that it won't mess up your global environment.

Currently supported shells are bash and dash.

Please see the documentation.

Quick Start

Clone the git repo to wherever you like:

$ git clone https://github.com/storborg/dram.git

Set up a directory prefix where you want to put drams:

$ mkdir /dram

Edit your .bashrc to configure it and source it:

$ cat >> ~/.bashrc
export DRAM_ROOT=/dram
source $HOME/dram/dram/dram.sh

Start a new shell.

Create a new dram:

$ dram create -t plain my-first-dram
$ dram use my-first-dram

Install something with cmake:

$ dram cdsource
$ git clone git@github.com:me/coolsoftware.git
$ cd coolsoftware
$ mkdir build
$ dram cmake ..
$ make && make install

Tip: don't ever use sudo within a dram. This will keep your "base system" totally pristine. One of the design goals of dram is to make it easy to clean up misbehaving installations.

License

Dram is licensed under an MIT license. Please see the LICENSE file for more information.