pkgforge-go

Officially maintained External Repo for Go Packages

• Project: https://github.com/pkgforge-go/builder

• Bugs/Issues: https://github.com/pkgforge-go/builder/issues

• Soar Repo: pkgforge-go

• Cache: Yes

• Soar CI & Repo: https://github.com/pkgforge-go/builder/tree/main/scripts

• Metadata: https://github.com/pkgforge-go/builder/tree/main/data

• Type: Static

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Trust

This is as good as our own officially curated packages, as it is officially maintained by @Azathothas. We have clear workflow on what & how packages are built. And since the packages are built on Github Actions, transparent CI logs are also available for all of the packages.

All of these make us say with high confidence that you can trust it, as long as you trust that Github, Cargo, Crates.io or the package itself isn't compromised.

On a scale of 1-10, we had rate this source as 9, As this is an officially maintained external source.

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Add

A fresh/new install of soar will have this repository enabled by default.

Using soar defconfig (Recommended)

#ONLY If you didn't already use it or have your own custom config
soar defconfig
soar sync
soar list 'pkgforge-go'

Using your text editor [ ~/.config/soar/config.toml ]

• Open it in a text editor

#Open the config file using your favourtie editor
#In this example, we will use micro
mkdir -pv "~/.config/soar" &&\
 micro "~/.config/soar/config.toml"

• Add the repo config (For other hosts, see supported list.)

[[repositories]]
name = "pkgforge-go"
url = "https://meta.pkgforge.dev/external/pkgforge-go/x86_64-Linux.sdb.zstd"

• Sync metadata

soar sync
soar list 'pkgforge-go'

Using tee (NOT-Recommended)

• Append (For other hosts, see supported list.)

mkdir -pv "~/.config/soar" &&\
tee -a "~/.config/soar/config.toml" <<EOF
[[repositories]]
name = "pkgforge-go"
url = "https://meta.pkgforge.dev/external/pkgforge-go/x86_64-Linux.sdb.zstd"
EOF

• Sync metadata

soar sync
soar list 'pkgforge-go'