Profiles

In Distrø and with packø configurations are handled by profiles, multiple profiles can be in use at the same time.

A profile is nothing more than a directory with various files that packø reads and uses to set itself up.

config

The config file is a Ruby script, all the constants (the one that start with a capital letter) are exported into the environment.

It’s used to setup various things, like default FEATURES, CFLAGS and the like. The options set in config can be overloaded by environment variables.

packages

The packages file is basically the same as a config file, except its contents are applied only to the packages that match the expression.

Example of /etc/packo/packages:

! *-9999 # unmask all bleeding edge packages
MASK = false

! (ruby) # disable optimization for all Ruby packages
CFLAGS = "-O0"

modules

modules is a directory which can contain scripts that are going to be loaded and evaluated in the package instance context, you can theoretically do some stuff like that by accessing a variable called package which contains the package instance in packages and config.

features

features is a directory which contains default definitions for features, the files have to be named after the feature name they want to describe, this is useful to make some features default to adding description and dependencies.