4 Qi is a simple but well-integrated package manager. It can create,
5 install, remove, and upgrade software packages. Qi produces binary
6 packages using recipes, which are files containing specific instructions
7 to build each package from source. Qi can manage multiple packages
8 under a single directory hierarchy. This method allows to maintain a
9 set of packages and multiple versions of them. This means that Qi could
10 be used as the main package manager or complement the existing one.
12 Qi offers a friendly command line interface, a global configuration
13 file, a simple recipe layout to deploy software packages; also works
14 with binary packages in parallel, speeding up installations and packages
15 in production. The format used for packages is a simplified but safe
16 POSIX pax archive compressed with lzip.
18 Qi is a modern (POSIX-compliant) shell script released under the
19 terms of the GNU General Public License. There are only two major
20 dependencies for the magic: graft(1) and tarlz(1), the rest is expected
21 to be found in any Unix-like system.
26 - A POSIX-compliant shell.
28 - Graft for handling symlinks: http://peters.gormand.com.au/Home/tools
30 - Perl in order to run Graft: http://www.perl.org
32 - Tarlz for produce binary packages: http://lzip.nongnu.org/tarlz.html
36 Take into account when you are going to install graft, you can define some
37 macros like PACKAGEDIR and TARGETDIR. To be consistent, please use the
38 same paths when `configure` adjusting them through the --packagedir and
41 If you have not changed the default values used on the graft installation,
42 you can avoid these steps, since qi uses the same values of graft for
43 PACKAGEDIR and TARGETDIR.
48 To configure, make and install qi, type:
54 See `./configure --help` for more options.
56 To install qi in a different location, type:
58 $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/qi install
60 This is useful for package distributors.
65 The Qi home page can be found at https://www.dragora.org.
66 Send bug reports or suggestions to <dragora-users@nongnu.org>.