pkgcore
a framework for package management (by pkgcore)
ugrd
python framework for generating initramfs's from TOML definitions (by desultory)
| pkgcore | ugrd | |
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| 1 | 1 | |
| 97 | 18 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 9.7 | |
| about 1 month ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pkgcore
Posts with mentions or reviews of pkgcore.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-26.
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Review: (Positive) - First time user - Fresh Install
I'd have to disagree with this... while it's true that Portage does do a lot more work than binary package managers, one of the main reasons it's slow is because it's written in Python and because it's quite a lot of legacy code that has been tacked onto/improved over the years. Pkgcore is also written in Python but is much faster at dependency resolution (9 sec vs. Portage's 30s for a emerge -uDvp @world).
ugrd
Posts with mentions or reviews of ugrd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-08.
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Build Initramfs Rootless
I've been working on this for the last year or so: https://github.com/desultory/ugrd
It's mostly made to work with Gentoo (uses pax-utils for finding dependencies), but should work with any distro. It does most of the initramfs creation process rootless. The main consideration is that you need privileges to make device nodes, but I just create them synthetically within the cpio image.
On most systems, this tool still requires root to copy the mount binary.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pkgcore and ugrd you can also consider the following projects:
portage - [MIRROR] Package management system
bootchart - merge of bootchart-collector and pybootchartgui