Manafiles

Config file and package tracking utility.
Repository at GitHub, GitLab or Gitea.

The goal of this project is simple reproducibility of a Linux system, without using symlinks. This is achieved by managing configuration files and keeping track of what packages were installed.

In order to use the same bundle of files for multiple systems, the program allows to specify variables inside of the configuration files. These configuration lines will then get commented or uncommented when pushing the configuration to the system, depending on the value of the variables. The variables that are supported are the distribution the hostname, the username, and the display session, which is either X.Org or Wayland.

Below an example of a variable block, where I set the amount of jobs the compiler will use, depending on the hostname, because my desktop has more cores than my laptop.

# >>> hostname=arch-desktop
MAKEFLAGS="-j8"
# <<<
# >>> hostname=arch-laptop
# MAKEFLAGS="-j4"
# <<<

List of features:

• Manage dotfiles and system config files.
• Selectively comment and uncomment depending on machine configuration.
• Store a list of all installed packages.
• Install packages from a stored list.
• Pattern matching in the config file and cli arguments.
• Test suite with unit tests, using my own macros.

Pictured below is the output of running the test suite: