Khap is designed to be an experimental package manager for legacy Mac OS 10.3.9 and earlier systems. The goal is for it to be easy to setup and deploy software on aging hardware that cannot support MacPorts or Homebrew.
This software is in the proof of concept stage.
On your client Mac, run the following command:
sudo /bin/bash -c "$(curl -s http://206.255.16.66:8000/static/install.sh)"
For now, bash is the only requirement client-side. You will need Python 3 in order to use the server-side application.
khap is the client-side application.
app.py is the Flask-based server application.
config.json is the server-side configuration.
static (can) contain binaries to serve.
promo contains photos for this GitHub page.
If running khap does nothing, try running /usr/local/bin/khap instead. If the terminal complains that you don't have correct permissions to run, simply use the command sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/khap.
khap must be run as the superuser.
On the client side, the Mac will be able to manage new software via the command line. Two commands are supported for the time being:
khap install XXXwill install a given package for your system.khap search XXXwill search your available repositories for software. Leaving it blank will return all available software for your system.khap updatewill update all installed packages on the system.
Repositories are stored in /etc/khap.d/repos. There are no active servers, so this file must point to your local development machine's IP address and port number.
The server side is written in Flask. It can be quickly run and accessible over the network in debug mode using the following command: flask run --host=0.0.0.0. Deployment and load balancing with a tool, such as NGINX, is recommended for a production environment.
Packages do not have to be stored on the local server - they can be remote. However, one package (Python 3.1.1.1 for PowerPC) has been compiled and stored in static for demonstration purposes. Packages somewhat resemble .deb packages, and are expected to be compressed using the GZ format. They must contain a single folder named tree, which contains the file tree to be mirrored onto the client machine.
Edit config.json before starting up the Flask server in order to configure what packages are available, what versions they are currently at, and what systems they support.
The Python 3.1.1 package was compiled in XCode 1.5 on this iMac G3, "Minty". The bash script for khap was also written on this machine as well.