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Soft sync

A system for syncing software and their settings. Mainly aimed towards linux systems.

In essence this can be seen as private package manager wrapper that will install software for you. It wraps and extends existing package managers by also making sure that the correct settings are installed.

The managed settings can be configured by multiple software configurations. i.e. a file can be extended by another software if desired.

Example of config can be found here (https://github.com/munHunger/soft-sync-data)

Config

Config is borken into 2 different types, Software and System

System

System is in essence a list of desired and installed applications. ex

name: arch laptop
manager:
  - PACMAN
  - AURUTILS
wanted:
  - aurutils
  - i3
  - urxvt
installed:
  - aurutils
  - urxvt

It specifies what package manager to wrap and what should be installed.

Currently only PACMAN and AURUTILS are tested and supported.

Based on the config soft-sync will install i3 as it is missing from the installed list.

Worth mentioning that uninstalling software is not yet supported. i.e. removing from wanted will not have any effect other than the software no longer being managed.

Software

Software can be configured in multiple ways. In their most basic form they only specify what packages to use.

name: "OpenSCAD"
packages:
  - name: "openscad"
    alternatives:
      - name: "openscad"
        manager: PACMAN

They can also include configuration if needed, by adding this to the root

settings:
  - path: ~/.config/i3/config
    content: |-
      set $mod Mod4
      font pango:monospace 8
      floating_modifier $mod

If the settings file is to be modified by other software you can specify it like this

settings:
  - path: ~/.config/i3/config
    content: |-
      bindsym $mod+Return exec urxvt
    position:
      type: END
    when:
      installed:
        - i3

The setting will then be added to end of the file assuming that the dependency i3 is in the wanted list.

If you have software that is more complex and not managed by a package manager. For example if you need to compile from scratch or simply just run a script to install you can do so by specifying an install object

install:
  - |-
    cd /tmp
    git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/aurutils.git
    cd aurutils
    chown -R munhunger ./
    makepkg -sir --noconfirm --skippgpcheck