hey all

i know a few folks here have developed their own package managers in the past, but i was having a hard time locating any threads specifically about writing package managers / discussions of what features are important and how different people approach implementation of those features.

if you've got a package manager project, or are involved with or just interested in existing package managers, post them here!

i'll start. i'm working on a small "secondary" package manager tentatively called 's3pkg' that uses an AWS S3 bucket/prefix as a repository. https://github.com/guinanseyebrows/s3pkg
my goal is to have an easy way to transfer scripts/small packages that are not included in the stock Amazon Linux repos to the fleet of 150-ish machines i take care of, without the hassle of creating RPMs for each or running an RPM repository server. i know it's kind of overkill to do this but i've been interested in breaking down the package management process for myself for a while, so it's been a fun exercise. right now it just handles search, install and remove, and i'll be the first to admit that it's clunky and some of the functions are not particularly elegant.

right now it's written in POSIX shell (but relies on a few GNUisms, i'll admit) but i am in the process of learning python well enough to rewrite it using boto3, because aws cli commands are dog-slow compared to boto3 API requests.