Sortix volatile manual
This manual documents Sortix volatile, a development build that has not been officially released. You can instead view this document in the latest official manual.
NAME
tix — package packagementSYNOPSIS
| tix | [collection] [clean | create | fetch | install | metabuild | port | uninstall | upgrade] [options ...] |
DESCRIPTION
tix is a networked binary package manager, which can also build binary packages from source port(5) files.- clean [...]
- tix-clean(8) - Delete cached and temporary files in $collection/var/cache/tix.
- create [-u url] [...]
- tix-create(8) - Create and modify a tix collection.
- fetch file ...
- tix-fetch(8) - Download files from the release repository.
- install package ...
- tix-install(8) - Download and install packages.
- metabuild port ...
- tix-metabuild(8) - Build and install multiple port(5) files.
- port port ...
- tix-port(8) - Build and install a single port(5) file.
- uninstall package ...
- tix-uninstall(8) - Uninstall packages.
- upgrade [...]
- tix-upgrade(8) - Upgrade to a new release by redownloading all packages and reinstalling them.
- tix-autoupgrade(8)
- daemon(7) for automatically upgrading to new releases in the background.
- tix-build(8)
- A low-level build program invoked by tix-port(8).
- tix-eradicate-libtool-la(8)
- A helper program that remove unnecessary libtool files from the staging directory during the port(5) build.
- tix-execdiff(8)
- Diff the executable permission between files in two directory trees.
- tix-execpatch(8)
- Apply the diff produced by tix-execdiff(8).
- tix-iso-add(8)
- Add additional files to a CD-ROM image as per release-iso-modification(7).
- tix-iso-bootconfig(8)
- Configure the bootloading of a CD-ROM release per release-iso-modification(7).
- tix-iso-liveconfig(8)
- Configure the live environment of a CD-ROM release per release-iso-modification(7).
- tix-list-packages(8)
- Compute the set of ports and their build order as per tix-metabuild(8.)
- tix-release(8)
- Publish tix releases and channels.
- tix-repository(8)
- Generate metadata for a tix repository.
- tix-rmdiff(8)
- Diff the removed files between files in two directory trees.
- tix-rmpatch(8)
- Apply the diff produced by tix-rmdiff(8).
- tix-vars(8)
- Evaluate variables in the port(5) format.
FILES
- /tix/
- The tix collection metadata directory.
- /tix/collection.conf
- collection.conf(5) configuration.
- /tix/manifest/
- Sorted file lists for every installed package.
- /tix/tixinfo/
- Metadata for every installed package.
EXIT STATUS
tix will execute the invoked subprogram and exit as it does.EXAMPLES
Upgrade to a new release
To upgrade to a new release on the current channel:tix upgrade
Download a binary package
To download a binary package or other metainformation from the repository:tix fetch foo.tix.tar.xz
Third-party packages
Additional third party packages can be installed by creating another collection pointed to the appropriate channel and version:tix /local create -u https://example.com/local/channel/stable/1.0 tix /local install foo
Building third-party ports
All the packages in a third-party port(5) directory can be built from source and installed into any location:tix /opt/initech metabuild /path/to/initech/ports