Ghetto Package Management

A package management system based on git and YAML.

Package Specification

Packages are defined in YAML, as follows:

packages:
  package-name:
    build: true|false (default true)
    configure: true|false|Hash (default true)
      - "--flags for ./configure" (optional)
      - "--more!" (optional)
    local: category/name (required)
    remote: "git remote" (required)
    version: "version" (required)
    install: true|false (default true)
    preconfigure: (optional)
      - "autoconf" (or whatever)
    alternate_install: "atypical install command here" (optional)

Examples

PHP 5.5.9, with fpm, json, and openssl.

php: 
  preconfigure:
    - "./buildconf --force"
  configure: 
    - "--enable-fpm"
    - "--enable-json"
    - "--with-openssl"
  local: lang/php
  remote: "https://github.com/php/php-src.git"
  version: php-5.5.9

supervisord

  supervisor: 
    alternate_install: "python setup.py install"
    build: false
    configure: false
    local: sysutils/supervisor
    remote: "https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor.git"
    version: 3.0

zsh

  zsh: 
    preconfigure:
      -"autoconf"
    configure: true
    local: shells/zsh
    remote: "https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh.git"
    version: zsh-5.0.5

Licensing

gpm is available under a permissive open-source license (MIT/X11). The packages it installs have their own licenses.