liopun / prp

A convenient solution for backing up and restoring your installed packages.

Package Restore Point CLI tool

A convenient solution for backing up and restoring your installed packages. This tool offers the portability of your current installed packages and utilizes your GitHub account as a data store for maintaining a record of your packages for future use.

Use Cases

• Moving to a brand new device (MacOs, Linux)
• Duplicating your Homebrew/Macports/Nix setup across different devices

Supported On

• MacOs
• Linux

Supported Package Managers

• Homebrew
• Macports
• Nix

Installation

Homebrew

brew install liopun/brew/prp

Binary

The latest release of PRP CLI tool can be found here, and it must be in your PATH for effective usage.

Source

1. Clone this repository
2. Build with make build ver="v0.15"
3. Run ./.dist/prp -h or Copy prp file to your $PATH and use it from there.

Get Started

• Run the following command to authenticate with Github prp gh TOKEN_HERE
• You can find out more information about Github personal tokens here

Commands

• Homebrew
  • Backup your current Homebrew packages: prp brew
  • Restore/Install your previously saved Homebrew packages to another system: prp restore brew
• Macports
  • Backup your current Macports packages: prp port
  • Restore/Install your previously saved Macports packages to another system: prp restore port
• NixOS
  • Backup your current NixOs packages: prp nix
  • Restore/Install your previously saved NixOs packages to another system: prp restore nix

Roadmap

• Support more package managers
  • macports [x]
  • nix [x]
  • pkgsrc

Adding To This Project

1. Clone this repository
2. Add your branch git checkout -b BRANCH_NAME_HERE main
3. Fetch dependencies go mod download
4. Implement your changes
5. Run make build ver="v0.16" to build the project
6. Happy hacking!

Publishing

make release ver="v0.16"

prp's Issues

Fail safe for incompatible packages

Support for Linux based systems

• Build and release this CLI tool for linux and windows systems

Realtime progress output for processes