toolbox VS repoctl

Compare toolbox vs repoctl and see what are their differences.

toolbox

Unified kit with all the scripts required for maintaining the repository 🧰 (by chaotic-aur)

repoctl

Make it easy to manage your local Arch Linux repository. (by cassava)
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toolbox repoctl
1 1
78 115
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6.5 7.1
19 days ago about 1 month ago
Shell Go
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 MIT License
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toolbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of toolbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-02.
  • Managing binary package repositories
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 2 Jul 2022
    Furthermore, repod is based on sound technical ideas, while Chaotic AUR (toolbox) is based on a AUR helper with a known history of data loss and runs arbitrary code as root with SUID helpers. Definitely not something you'd ever want to run on a personal machine.

repoctl

Posts with mentions or reviews of repoctl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-02.
  • Managing binary package repositories
    2 projects | /r/archlinux | 2 Jul 2022
    Furthermore, repod is based on sound technical ideas, while Chaotic AUR (toolbox) is based on a AUR helper with a known history of data loss and runs arbitrary code as root with SUID helpers. Definitely not something you'd ever want to run on a personal machine.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing toolbox and repoctl you can also consider the following projects:

baur - Bash Arch User Repository

pacseek - A terminal user interface for searching and installing Arch Linux packages

linux-cacule - Archlinux Kernel based on the Cacule Scheduler and with many improvements.

pamcan - Learn to type "pacman" correctly

arch-pkgs - :building_construction: My Arch Linux system configuration and administration meta packages.

kube-fledged - A kubernetes operator for creating and managing a cache of container images directly on the cluster worker nodes, so application pods start almost instantly

ungoogled-chromium-archlinux - Arch Linux packaging for ungoogled-chromium

holo-build - Cross-distribution system package compiler

trizen - Lightweight AUR Package Manager

yay - Yet another Yogurt - An AUR Helper written in Go