drunk

Alternate binary installer.

Scope - Client

Command line interface be capable of:

• Add package repositories
• Remove package repositories
• Install package
• Uninstall package
• Update repository
• Upgrade packages

Scope - Server

Server should be responsible for

• Generating structured repository configurations and metadata
• Metadata should contain all the details like packages, it's versions, location to download, how to install, etc.

Scope - Protocol

Entities

• Repository
• Package
• ArchiveMetadata

Archive Types

• Archive types can be
  • tar.gz
  • zip
• This package type will uncompress and unarchive the package after downloading to a temporary directory.
• once extracted the matching file name should be kept to the desired binary-path location.

Assumptions

• Archive should have the file inside it with the name specified in the Package.

Actions

• Default action is copy to binary folder
• Other actions could be something like adding systemd file or launchd file to a particular location to start/enable the service