pm

Hugo's new (again) package manager that reads a Lua configuration file and coordinates the download, build, and installation from remote URLs. Packages are processed in parallel using POSIX threads.

You might be asking why I wrote another Package Manager. Good question. I don't know either. Update: appart from the rest, this one works.

Usage

pm [option]...

Command	Description
pm	Fetch, build, and install all packages from config
pm --help / pm -h	Show help message and exit
pm --version / pm -v	Show version info and exit
pm --color	Enable colored output
pm init / pm i	Create a template config at the c/config path (default: ~/.config/pm/init.lua)
pm threads N / pm t N	Use at most N threads (default: CPU count)
pm list / pm l	List all packages defined in the config
pm system / pm s	Print system configuration paths and settings
pm config FILE / pm c FILE	Use a different config file (default: ~/.config/pm/init.lua)

Configuration

The config file lives at ~/.config/pm/init.lua and defines:

System = {
    build = { path = os.getenv("HOME") .. "/.local/share/pm/cache/" },
    bin   = { path = os.getenv("HOME") .. "/.local/share/pm/bin/" },
}

Packages = {
    {
        url = "...",
        build = "...",
        artifact = "...",
    },
}

It's plain Lua, so you can use require, helper functions, and split packages across multiple files. See the example directory for reference.

Build

make          # release build
make debug    # debug build with sanitizers

Requires lua, libcurl, and libcrypto (OpenSSL). The Makefile installs the man page to ~/.local/share/man/man1/pm.1.