Glacier

Glacier is the package management system for Everest Linux. It controls all user-installed packages on the system. Glacier is designed from the ground up, and uses a simple, PKGBUILD-like format, for ease of use.

Get started

Glacier requires the following packages:

• Bash (Glacier runtime)
• GNU make (package compilation)
• GCC (or any compatible C compiler)
• Git (required by some packages for source control)
• Autoconf (required by some packages for compilation)
• Automake (required by some packages for compilation)
• GNU wget (Package downloads)

To install Glacier, clone this repository:

git clone https://git.everestlinux.org/EverestLinux/glacier
cd glacier/install

Inside the install directory, edit install.conf.dist, ensure all options are adequate, and save as install.conf:

EDITOR=your_editor_here
$EDITOR install.conf.dist

Run build.sh as root:

doas ./build.sh install
# OR
sudo ./build.sh install
# OR
su -c ./build.sh install

Included programs

• gpkg (interfaces with and manages all packages under Glacier's local index)
• syspkg (like gpkg, except operates on the system's index)
• glist (lists all installed packages, or searches by name)
• gquery (queries information from a package)
• gpc (checks a local package against Glacier's packaging standards)
• glacier-mkprofile (updates the system profile)