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homemaker. Slightly more than yet another dotfile manager.

27 releases

0.7.5 Nov 5, 2022
0.7.3 Sep 28, 2021
0.6.7 Jun 2, 2021
0.6.4 Mar 23, 2021
0.3.5 Nov 30, 2020

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Continuous integration

Have a dotfiles directory with all your stuff in it? Have homemaker put everything in its right place.

Check out the changelog

homemaker in action

hm in action

installation

  • from crates.io: cargo install hm
  • from github (may be in some state of flux): cargo install --git https://github.com/hlmtre/homemaker
  • cloned locally: cargo install --path .
  1. create a config.toml file either anywhere (and specify -c when you run hm) or in ~/.config/homemaker/.
  2. enter things to do things to in the file. example:
## config.toml

[[obj]]
file = 'tmux.conf' # simple things - symlink or copy a file somewhere
source = '~/dotfiles/.tmux.conf'
destination = '~/.tmux.conf'
method = 'symlink'

[[obj]]
task = 'zt' # more complicated - a task.
solution = 'cd ~/dotfiles/zt && git pull'
dependencies = ['maim, slop']
os = 'linux::debian'

[[obj]]
task = 'maim_dependencies'
solution = 'sudo apt install -y libxfixes-dev libglm-dev libxrandr-dev libglew-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libxcomposite-dev'
os = 'linux::debian' # only if the platform matches.
# valid OS values we differentiate between are:
# linux::fedora
# linux::debian
# linux::ubuntu
# windows

[[obj]]
task = 'maim'
source = '~/dotfiles/zt/maim'
solution = 'cd ~/dotfiles/zt/maim; make clean; cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ./ && make && sudo make install'
method = 'execute'
dependencies = ['maim_dependencies']

[[obj]]
task = 'slop'
source = '~/dotfiles/zt/slop'
solution = 'cd ~/dotfiles/zt/slop; make clean; cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ./ && make && sudo make install'
method = 'execute'
os = 'linux::debian'

[[obj]]
task = 'slop'
source = '~/dotfiles/zt/slop'
solution = 'cd ~/dotfiles/zt/slop; make clean; cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/usr" ./ && make && sudo make install'
method = 'execute'
os = 'linux::debian'

[[obj]]
task = 'nvim'
method = 'execute'
solution = "test -x /usr/local/bin/nvim || (git clone https://github.com/neovim/nevim.git ~/src/ && cd ~/src/neovim && make CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/ && sudo make install)" # if nvim is not there and executable, run our solution.
dependencies = ['vim-plug']

[[obj]]
task = 'vim-plug'
method = 'execute'
solution = "sh -c 'curl -fLo ~/.local/share/nvim/site/autoload/plug.vim --create-dirs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/junegunn/vim-plug/master/plug.vim'"
  1. hm -c /path/to/your/config.toml
  • simple file entries either symlink or copy a file somewhere - usually a config file.
  • tasks are more complicated actions to perform - run scripts, download/compile software, etc. they can be restricted to specific platforms (differentiated values are specified above in the maim_dependencies task).

why homemaker?

  • compared to say, gnu stow, homemaker supports more than just creating a mirrored symlinked filesystem.
  • dependency resolution:
    • specify a set of tasks to complete, each with their own dependencies, and watch as it completes them in some order that satisfies each task's dependencies.
    • for example, in the sample config.toml (the one i use, actually), maim depends on having some graphics libraries installed. i created a task called maim_dependencies, and hm will complete maim_dependencies before attempting to complete maim.
    • zt has two dependencies: maim and slop. hm will complete the entire dependency tree below zt before atttempting zt.
    • homemaker complains if the dependency tree cannot be solved, and shows you a hopefully-handy explanation why. dep graph
  • allows for specifying portions of the config to be executed (target tasks). only wanna run one task? -t <taskname>

subtree

homemaker unknowingly clobbers an existing dotfile manager written in Go some time ago. Linked here.

built with spacemacs and neovim.

Could not be made without rust-analyzer.

Dependencies

~6–17MB
~198K SLoC