OVERVIEW

pkgutils is a collection of utilities such as pkgadd(1), pkgrm(8), and pkginfo(1) for managing software packages: installing, removing, and retrieving basic information.

This distribution is a fork of CRUX pkgutils at commit 9ca0da6 (Sat Nov 17 2018) with the following differences:

• Code organized into a library (libpkgutils) and utilities
• GNU-style options, help, and usage output
• Improved adherence to GNU Coding Standards
• Manual pages in scdoc(5) format
• Split pkgadd(8) manual into pkgadd(8) and pkgadd.conf(5)
• Support for zstd packages
• Vim syntax highlighting for pkgadd.conf
• Optional support for preserving ACLs and xattrs in pkgadd(8)

See the git log for full history.

Original sources:

• https://git.crux.nu/tools/pkgutils.git

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REQUIREMENTS

Build-time

• C++11 compiler (GCC 4.8.1+, Clang 3.3+)
• POSIX sh(1p), make(1p), and "mandatory utilities"
• libarchive(3) to unpack archive files
• scdoc(1) to generate manual pages
• pkg-config(1) (optional, for static linking)

Also see [rejmerge][https://github.com/zeppe-lin/rejmerge], a utility for merging files rejected by pkgadd(8) during package upgrades.

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INSTALLATION

To build and install:

make
make install   # as root

For static linking, ensure pkg-config(1) is available and run:

make LDFLAGS="-static $(pkg-config --static --libs libarchive)"

Configuration parameters are defined in config.mk.
Default file paths and settings are specified in src/pathnames.h.

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DOCUMENTATION

Manual pages are provided in /man and installed under the system manual hierarchy.

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LICENSE

pkgutils is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later.

See COPYING for license terms and COPYRIGHT for notices.