Welcome to the official website of spkg, the unofficial Slackware Linux package manager. spkg is implemented in C and optimized for speed. The latest version relased on 2007-01-27 16:12 is: spkg-1.0rc9. See NEWS file for more information about this release.
News
Spkg GIT repository is now avalilabe
2006-11-09: Spkg GIT repository is now available on repo.or.cz. Feel free to [ab]use the mob branch there. ;-)
Spkg is heading towards 1.0
What this means is, that I've modified site to allow me to easily roll out spkg-1.0 release candidates. So this means, that there will be a lot of them. :-)
I've tested beta a lot and come up with some benchmarks you can find here. Just a few numbers comparing pkgtools to spkg here: installation is at least 4x faster, upgrade is 7x faster and remove is 30x faster on averange.
See older news...
Features
- Simple user interface. Just like pkgtools.
- Fast install, upgrade and remove operations.
- Command to list information about installed packages.
- Dry-run mode, in which filesystem is not touched.
- Safe mode for installing untrusted packages.
- Rollback and safe cancel functionality.
- You can use spkg and pkgtools side by side.
- You can be informed about all actions spkg does if you turn on verbose mode.
- Everything is libified. (see docs) You can implement new commands easily.
