13 Qi is a simple but well-integrated package manager. It can creates,
14 install, remove, and upgrade software packages. Qi produces binary
15 packages using recipe names, these are files containing specific
16 instructions to build every source. Qi can manage multiple packages
17 under a single directory hierarchy, this method allows to maintain a set
18 of packages and multiple versions of them. This means that Qi could be
19 used as the main package manager or complement the existing one.
21 Qi offers a friendly command line interface, a global configuration
22 file, a simple recipe layout to deploy software packages; also works
23 with binary packages in parallel, speeding up installations and packages
24 in production. The used format for packages is a simplified but safe
25 POSIX pax archive compressed with lzip.
27 Qi is a modern (POSIX-compliant) shell script released under the
28 terms of the GNU General Public License. There are only two major
29 dependencies for the magic: graft(1) and tarlz(1), the rest is expected
30 to be found in any Unix-like system.
36 - A POSIX-compliant shell.
38 - Graft: http://peters.gormand.com.au/Home/tools
40 Perl (http://www.perl.org) is required in order to run graft(1).
43 Take into account when graft is installed, you can define some
44 macros like PACKAGEDIR and TARGETDIR. To be consistent use the
45 same paths when `configure', adjusting it via --packagedir and
46 --targetdir options. If you have not changed the default values
47 used on the graft installation, you can avoid these steps, since
48 qi uses the same graft values for PACKAGEDIR and TARGETDIR.
50 - Tarlz: http://lzip.nongnu.org/tarlz.html
52 - A mktemp(1) implementation (normally included in the system):
55 To configure, make and install qi, type:
61 See `./configure --help' for more options.
63 To install in a different location, DESTDIR is supported. This is useful
64 for package distributors:
66 $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/qi install
70 The Qi home page can be found at `http://www.dragora.org'.
71 Send bug reports or suggestions to <dragora-users@nongnu.org>.