jpm - JinaOS Package Manager

jpm is the package manager for JinaOS, designed for slow networks, limited storage, and ARM64 phones.

pls consider visiting the main gitlab repo to submit pr/mr repo

Features

• Resumable downloads (network drops? continues where it stopped)
• Multi-connection downloads (up to 8 parallel connections)
• SHA256 checksum verification
• Local cache with automatic cleanup
• Dependency installation
• Orphan package removal
• Static binary (no runtime dependencies)
• Works on ARM64 and x86_64

Installation

On JinaOS

sudo wget -O /usr/bin/jpm https://mirror.jinaos.org/bin/jpm sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/jpm

From source

git clone https://gitlab.com/jinaos/jpm cd jpm crystal build --release --static src/jpm.cr -o jpm sudo cp jpm /usr/bin/

Commands

Remove options

Examples

Update package list

jpm update

Install a package

jpm install gcc

Install with dependencies

jpm install build-essential

Remove a package

jpm remove gcc

Remove and purge config files

jpm remove gcc --purge

Remove package and unused dependencies

jpm remove gcc --recursive

Remove all orphaned packages

jpm autoremove

Search for packages

jpm search compiler

List installed packages

jpm list

Show package details

jpm show python

Clean cache older than 30 days

jpm clean 30

Show cache stats

jpm cache-stats

Environment Variables

Package Format (.jin)

A .jin package is a tar.gz archive with a metadata.jin file:

package.jin
├── metadata.jin        # Package metadata
├── usr/bin/            # Binaries
├── usr/lib/            # Libraries
└── etc/                # Config files

metadata.jin format

name: gcc version: 13.2.0 depends: binutils, libc description: GNU C compiler

Directory Structure

/var/cache/jpm/           # Package cache
  ├── packages.txt        # Package list from mirror
  └── *.jin              # Cached packages

/var/lib/jpm/             # Database
  ├── installed/          # Empty files for installed packages
  └── versions/           # Version numbers

Building from Source

Requirements

• Crystal 1.0 or higher
• Static linking (musl recommended for ARM64)

Build commands

x86_64

crystal build --release --static src/jpm.cr -o jpm

ARM64 (cross-compile)

crystal build --release --static --target aarch64-linux-musl src/jpm.cr -o jpm

Strip binary

strip jpm

Test

crystal spec

Mirror Setup

To run your own jpm mirror:

1. Create a directory with packages.txt and .jin files
2. Generate SHA256 checksums
3. Serve over HTTP/HTTPS

Example packages.txt format:

name version dependencies description

gcc 13.2.0 binutils,libc GNU C compiler python 3.11.0 - Python programming language make 4.4 - Build automation tool

License

MIT License

Author

JinaOS Team team@jinaos.org

Repository

https://gitlab.com/jinaos/jpm