Simple Package Manager (SPM)

A basic userland package management system with a few humble goals:

• To be simple and easy to use
• To support Linux, MacOS (not yet), and Windows (not yet)
• To avoid using root (or administrative accounts in general) to install software
• To keep your Monday mornings and Friday evenings pain free

Build requirements

• cmake (https://cmake.org)
• curl (https://curl.haxx.se)
• gcc (https://gcc.gnu.org)
• make (https://www.gnu.org/software/make)
• openssl (https://www.openssl.org)
• bsdtar (https://www.libarchive.org)
  • OR gnutar (https://www.gnu.org/software/tar)
• which (https://carlowood.github.io/which)

Runtime Requirements

• file (http://darwinsys.com/file)
• patchelf (https://nixos.org/patchelf.html)
• objdump (https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils)
• reloc (https://github.com/jhunkeler/reloc)
• rsync (https://rsync.samba.org)
• bsdtar (https://www.libarchive.org)
  • OR gnutar (https://www.gnu.org/software/tar)
• which (https://carlowood.github.io/which)

Installation

Dependencies

CentOS 7+

$ yum install epel-release
$ yum install -y binutils cmake3 curl-devel file gcc gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran glibc-devel \
    make openssl-devel patchelf rsync bsdtar which

Arch

$ pacman -S binutils cmake curl file gcc gcc-c++ gcc-gfortran openssl make patchelf \
    rsync libarchive which

Install reloc

$ git clone https://github.com/jhunkeler/reloc
$ cd reloc
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

Install SPM

$ git clone https://github.com/jhunkeler/spmc
$ cd spmc
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
$ make install

Developing SPM

$ git clone https://github.com/jhunkeler/spm
$ cd spm
$ mkdir build
$ cmake ..

Configuration

TODO

Usage

$ spm --help
usage: spm [-hVvBIRrmMLS]
  -h,  --help                show this help message
  -V,  --version             show version
  -v,  --verbose             show more information (additive)
  -y   --yes                 do not prompt
  -B,  --build               build package(s)
  -I,  --install             install package(s)
  -R   --remove              remove package(s)
  -r,  --root                installation prefix (requires --install)
  -m   --manifest            specify a package manifest to use
  -M   --override-manifests  disable default package manifest location
  -L,  --list                list available packages
  -S,  --search              search for a package
       --cmd                 execute an internal spm command
       
$ spm --cmd
possible commands:
  mkprefixbin          - generate prefix manifest (binary)
  mkprefixtext         - generate prefix manifest (text)
  mkmanifest           - generate package repository manifest
  mkruntime            - emit runtime environment (stdout)
  mirror_clone         - mirror a mirror     
  rpath_set            - modify binary RPATH 
  rpath_autoset        - determine nearest lib directory and set RPATH
  get_package_ext      - show the default archive extension
  get_sys_target       - show this system's arch/platform
  check_rt_env         - check the integrity of the calling runtime environment       

Example

List available packages

$ spm --list
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# name               version        size     origin
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
autoconf             2.69-0      883.65K     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
automake             1.16.1-0    656.70K     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
binutils             2.34-0        6.33M     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
bison                3.4.2-0     751.46K     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
bzip2                1.0.8-0     229.04K     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
cmake                3.15.5-0     14.37M     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
curl                 7.66.0-0      1.01M     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
diffutils            3.7-0       547.74K     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
e2fsprogs            1.45.4-0     73.35K     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
filesystem           1.0.0-0        567B     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
findutils            4.7.0-0     777.81K     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
gcc                  8.4.0-0      57.89M     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64
# [...]

Search for a package

$ spm --search python
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# name               version        size     origin
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
python               3.8.2-0      26.05M     https://astroconda.org/spm/Linux/x86_64

Install a package

$ spm --root ~/spmenv123 --install "python" # [...]

Export environment variables

$ spm --mkruntime ~/spmenv123 > ~/spmenv123/bin/activate
$ source ~/spmenv123/bin/activate

Use package

$ python -m ensurepip
$ python -m venv ~/spmenv123/venv
$ source ~/spmenv123/venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip install https://github.com/spacetelescope/jwst.git#egg=jwst
# ... do work

Building SPM Packages

See the spm_packages repository.