nmiculinic / pkgctrl

Package controller

pkgctrl

Package controller. For when you want reconciling what packages you currently have installed on your system. Currenly only supporting pacman, though plans to expand to go, cargo & krew package managers in the future

Usecase

I have multiple machines, where I randomly install & uninstall packages. Sometimes I'd like to sync state across machines, or when one dies restore from a backup.

Quick start

yay -S pkgctrl-bin

Optionally you can install via cargo:

cargo install pkgctrl

• Create example config.yml:

want:
  - bat
ignore:
ignore_groups:
  - gnome
  - kde-applications
  - kde-graphics
  - kde-multimedia
  - kde-network
  - kde-system
  - kde-utilities
  - kf5
  - linux510-extramodules
  - linux54-extramodules
  - manjaro-tools
  - plasma
  - qt
  - qt5
  - xorg
  - xorg-apps
  - xorg-drivers
  - base-devel

sync your currently installed packages to the file:

pkgctrl sync-config --config config.yml

Inspect the file, edit as appropriate.

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some time passes

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Reconcile the state after backup/on different machine

pkgctrl reconcile --config config.yaml