subconsciouscompute / meta-package-manager

A meta package manager for interfacing with multiple distro/platform specific package managers.

Meta Package Manager

A meta package manager for interfacing with multiple distro/platform-specific package managers using a single, simple, unified interface. mpm is both a Rust library and a CLI utility.

It is inspired by Python's meta-package-manager which is far ahead in functionality.

Command-line Interface

The CLI provides a common interface to execute operations using different package managers. It automatically detects the package managers available on the system and picks one of them to perform operations by default (the user can also target a specific package manager if required).

Run mpm --help for more details.

Library usage

See samples in examples folder.

meta-package-manager's Issues

Update README

The README.md file has old invalid example post #27

Elevate privilages only when needed

mpm CLI attempts to elevate privileges for all commands. Commands such as help, search, list, managers, etc do not require sudo privileges. Since the password is asked for every command, this negatively affects the user experience.

Solution

• Attempt to elevate privileges only for commands that need it

Output struct can be constructed directly

https://github.com/VoltaireNoir/genpack/blob/9f0cd1e0479bd276c65364512aee4270b7d1e1f4/src/libtests.rs#L52

Example

use std::os::unix::process::ExitStatusExt;
use std::process::{ExitStatus, Output};

fn main() {
    let stdout = b"testing";

    let output = Output {
        status: ExitStatus::from_raw(0),
        stdout: stdout.to_vec(),
        stderr: vec![],
    };

    println!("{output:#?}");
}

Support un-installation of pkg file

Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42120328/1805129

Sudo fails in CI - Unable to run tests with elevated privilage

Sudo fails while it should work as Github CI runners use passwordless sudo.
Required to make APT integration tests work (#6)

Turn this into a Cargo workspace containing both the lib and CLI

MPM fails to compile on Windows

The crate is failing to compile on Windows. This is caused by the elevate crate's with_env function. This is only available on Unix based OSs and should be conditionally compiled with #[cfg(unix)] or called with the if_cfg macro.

Add support to install packages by URL

• yum, dnf, and Zypper support installing directly from an URL.
• choco probably does not support it.
• brew also doesn't support it
• apt doesn't support it

Support json output

Add a global option --json.

If passed, all output must be in JSON format.

Make MetaPackageManager non-interactive by default

And allows use to set interactive mode by passing -i or --interactive via cli.

feat: Add API to query package type

e.g. rpm or deb etc.

Typo: HomeBrew -> Choco

https://github.com/VoltaireNoir/genpack/blob/9f0cd1e0479bd276c65364512aee4270b7d1e1f4/tests/basic.rs#L30