pm

A brutally-simple package manager, in the spirit of Kelsey Hightower's pm.

Building pm

Unforuntaely, pm is not go-get-able. Since I did not want to have to write command-line parsing stuff (read: "reinvent the wheel"), I'm using cobra to do all of the fancy stuff, and I am relying on gpm to manage the dependencies.

Once you have gpm installed, all you need to do is run:

$ make

...and that's it! You will have a binary for your platform, at bin/pm.

Packaging

This is also done from the Makefile!

All you need to do is run:

$ make clean package version=x.y.z

The package target in the Makefile, will create a pm-bootstrap binary (which is just pm with a different name, and compiled for your local machine), it will then compile bin/pm again, generate a metadata file from the metadata.json template, and use pm-bootstrap to package things up.

Yes, pm is used to package itself.

After the package target is done, you will have pm-x.y.z-${GOOS}-${GOARCH}.tar.gz in your current directory.

Packaging pm for other systems

This requires that you have Go built, and installed, with cross-compilers.

On OS X, you can do this by running:

$ brew install --with-cc-all go

On Linux and the BSDs, installing Go from source will give you all of the cross-compilers.

Now to the good stuff. To package pm for another operating system and/or architecture, you will need to set the platform and/or arch Makefile variables, respectively.

For example, if you are on OS X, and you want to build and package pm for 64-bit Linux systems, all you need to run is:

$ make clean package version=x.y.z platform=linux arch=amd64

And all will be right with the world.