THIS PROJECT IS STILL IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT

THE README IS HERE TO GIVE AN IDEA OF WHAT THE PROJECT WILL BE.
KEEP IN MIND THAT SOME FEATURES MAY NOT BE IMPLEMENTED YET.
BECAUSE OF THAT, SOME FEATURES MAY DRASTICALLY CHANGE OR BE REMOVED BEFORE THE FINAL RELEASE.
IF YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROJECT, YOU CAN OPEN A PULL REQUEST OR AN ISSUE.

Depot

Every Linux user has encountered the problem of learning how a new project manager works when changing operating system.
Depot solves this problem by guessing your package manager based on your operating system.
When you ask Depot to install a package, Depot will start by guessing your package manager and then instruct it to install the package.
In top of that, Depot will also store the package name you requested inside a file. You can then bring this file to another computer and ask Depot to install all the packages you need. Our inspiration for this is Stow a symlink farm manager. You can use Depot in combination with Stow to store your package list in the same place as your dotfiles.

Installation

Pre-built binaries

You can download the latest release from the releases page.
After downloading the binary, you can move it to a directory in your PATH.

Package manager

Package manager support is coming soon.
Consider building from source or using the pre-built binaries for now.

Building from source

git clone git@github.com:Rignchen/Depot.git
cd Depot
cargo build --release
mv target/release/depot /usr/local/bin

Please note that you need to have Rust installed to build the project.

Configuration

Depot will try to guess your package manager based on your operating system. However, sometimes you may want to specify it yourself. For example, as I use Arch (btw), I may want to use yay instead of pacman.
To do so you have 2 options:

1. Set the environment variable DEPOT_PM to the name of your package manager
2. Add the flag --pm <package_manager> when running a command

Usage

Depot has 5 commands:

• install <package>: Install a package.
• uninstall <package>: Uninstall a package.
• update [package]: Update a package, if no package is specified, update all the packages.
• list: List all the packages you have installed.
• sync: Compare the packages installed on the computer with the ones stored in the file and install the missing ones.

Example

In this example I will install vim and zsh on both of my computers.
I use scp to copy the package list file from one computer to the other.
Then I use ssh to connect to the other computer and run depot sync to install the missing packages on the other computer.

$ depot install vim
vim is now installed.

$ depot install zsh
zsh is now installed.

$ scp ~/.depot/packages user@computer:~/.depot/packages
wanted.json                                     100% 123     2.2MB/s   00:00

$ ssh user@computer 
$ whoami
user

$ depot sync
Packages synced with config.

$ which vim
/usr/bin/vim

Supported package manager

Package managers listed below are supported by Depot:

OS/Linux Distribution	pacman	yay	apt	apt-get	pkg	dnf	apk
Arch (btw)	✔	✔	X	X	X	X	X
Debian	X	X	✔	✔	X	X	X
Ubuntu	X	X	✔	✔	X	X	X
Android (Termux)	X	X	✔	✔	✔	X	X
Fedora	X	X	X	X	X	✔	X
Alpine	X	X	X	X	X	X	✔

The macOS package manager brew and Windows package managers winget, choco, and scoop may be supported in the future. If your package manager isn't listed above, please report an issue. We will add it as soon as possible.

License

This project is licensed under the Creative Commons NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.