Get bkt into the major package managers

[dimo414]

I don't have much experience with this, but filing a bug to keep track of this over time. Package managers to consider: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#using-linux-package-managers.

• Arch / Pacman
• Debian / apt-get
• FreeBSD / ports
• macOS / Homebrew
• NetBSD / pkgsrc
• NixOS
• Void / XBPS

[thiagowfx]

Now packaged for Arch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bkt/

[dimo414]

Thanks a lot @thiagowfx! And props for your nice writeup as well.

[0323pin]

@dimo414 FYI, I've just packaged and merged bkt into the main pkgsrc branch.
See, https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2022/02/01/msg248020.html

This means bkt is now available for NetBSD users and users of other supported platforms, https://www.pkgsrc.org/#index4h1

Regards

[dimo414]

Thank you very much! It looks like it's already showing up in the README :)

[0323pin]

Thank you for this tool. I'm using it in a slightly unconventional way, though 😄
I'm setting the time to few minutes and launching troublesome programs to catch why and when they crash or segfault.

Yeah, if you pulling the info from repology, it will mostly be up-to-date.
I say mostly because we use cvs and the git-repository is just a mirror. Repology pulls information from git and it can be a delay of up to one day. So, don't worry if you make a new release and it takes a day or two to be marked as updated, that's normal.

[dimo414]

setting the time to few minutes and launching troublesome programs to catch why and when they crash or segfault.

Hey that sounds like a pretty reasonable use case to me :) If you'd like to share how you're using bkt in more detail in https://github.com/dimo414/bkt/discussions/categories/show-and-tell it might inspire other or help me plan future features.

[0323pin]

@dimo414 E.g., I know that firefox spits quite a few harmless errors so, I'll use it as an example.

$ bkt --ttl=30min --cwd -- 'firefox91'

will produce a log which I can look at later in /tmp/bkt-0.5-cache/data

[dimo414]

Hah alright, that is a bit more unusual :) Happy to chat about it more in a discussion if you'd like to post one.

[0323pin]

@dimo414 Forgot to reply. Do you think what I'm doing is wrong? Of course /tmp is cleared upon reboot but, I could re-direct it to a more permanent location.

[dimo414]

Not necessarily, though it's somewhat unexpected that a user would manually access the cache directory. Happy to discuss it further but I'm going to hide these comments to keep this issue on-topic.

[ehaupt]

I've just packaged bkt for FreeBSD: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=6f16c9c835c7c33e302e5e2b2a559a00d210944d

• FreeBSD / ports

FreeBSD users can now install the port by building:

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/bkt
make install

or install the package:

pkg install bkt

EDIT: Added installation instructions

[benthetechguy]

Wow, that's some cool timing! I just began work packaging bkt for Debian almost exactly when you made that comment.

[dimo414]

Amazing, thank you @ehaupt! And thank you in advance @benthetechguy :)

[ehaupt]

Maybe we can convince @alexmyczko to create a Homebrew receipe 😜