car

A very minimalistic insanely quick package manager. May also be referred to as car/tar or glorified tar extractor. Car is not meant to do hash checks or whatever; it purposely skips them for speed. It can convert .deb, .pkg.tar.zst and .AppImage packages to Car's own format - .tar.zst.

The full docs URL on the Redrose docs site

https://docs.redroselinux.org/#/car.md.

File structure

• car.nimble - Nimble config file
• Version - the current version, read by Nim at compile time
• src/ - source
  • car.nim - the app entry point
  • color.nim - loggers
  • fsck_symlink_attacks.nim - a file with a func to prevent symlink attacks
  • operations/ - commands of car
  • converters/ - converters for packages of non-car formats, ran by install
    • appimage.nim - converter for AppImages
    • debian.nim - converter for .deb packages

Maintaining the codebase

As already mentioned above, the Version file includes the current version of the program. However, the .nimble file is not automatically synchronized with this; you must run this command before releasing a new version:

nimble syncVersion