binman is the binary repository manager for Solus. This is a reimplementation of the current binman Python code, in keeping with Solus' goals of using Go for this kind of tooling.

binman aims to provide simple management of Solus repositories, with a git-like feel, and a rigid approach to caching, by pooling assets and hardlinking them into the appropriate place.

Note: binman is currently a work in progress, and isn't an immediate Solus tooling goal.

binman is a Solus project.

binman should provide easy maintainence of eopkg repositories without the need for any host side tooling. It should provide git like syntax to enable creation, modification, and deletion of repositories.

It should support the concept of a processing queue, where we wait for a full upload payload to become available, before then merging them into the repository database.

To reduce the cost of indexing a repository (many thousands of packages) a simple database should be used to enable very quick dumping to the eopkg-index.xml.

binman should also support the automatic creation of .delta.eopkg delta packages to reduce the cost of update for users. While the existing binman.py implementation can do all these things, it is very limited, inefficient, and often misses delta opportunities.

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binman is available under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license