ViNi-Arco / tinypkg

Tiny and fast package manager, written in POSIX Shell

Tinypkg

A low-level package manager, similar to 'dpkg', 'rpm' and 'pkgtool'. Created for Linux distributions, written in Shell POSIX. With tinypkg you can: create, install, list and remove packages in a universal way!

Installation

Use tinypkg only with root!

chmod +x tinypkg && cp tinypkg /usr/sbin

Options

• -h: Displays help.
• -c: Creates a package.
• -i: Installs packages.
• -r: Removes packages.
• -l: Lists installed packages.
• --fakeroot DIR: Changes installation / from another directory. Used with -i

USAGE Examples

Creating a package

'NOTE! The package name must be named as: <name>-<version>.tar If spaces are needed use underscores. e.g.: Software_editor-01.0424.tar'

tinypkg -c leafpad-0.8.17.tar

Installing packages

# Using absolute path
tinypkg -i /home/slackjeff/bin/leafpad-0.18.17.tar

# Using relative path
tinypkg -i leafpad-0.18.17.tar

# Installing multiple packages
tinypkg -i /tmp/*.tar

Removing packages

'Note! If there are multiple packages with the same name (e.g.: leafpad-version or leafpad-bin-version). It just shows you and does nothing!'

tinypkg -r leafpad

If you are willing to contribute:

Make sure you follow these guidelines:

• Keep the code below 250 lines (Comments not included)
• Use only the standard POSIX Shell
• Do not include unnecessary things!

Roadmap

• Create option to update available packages.
• Make it even faster.
• Remove dirt in the code. (replacing external tools)
• Create a post installation script
• MD5 hash of each package when creating. And check when installing. (security)