Ongoing package migration

Hello again, just a quick update. I announced that I’ve been working on a new package management system in the previous post. And I now I’m happy to announce that the new system is ready!

New projects

Over these few weeks I released 2 different projects:

• pooler: Simple MPTP server for serving package pools
• matt: The (new) MatterLinux package manager

With these tools, the package management system is complete. But now it’s time for the harder part, migrating all the new packages. I already know that this will take a WHILE. I’m currently migrating the base packages over on the new repo. These are critical base system packages, so I’m manually migrating and updating them, however for the desktop packages, I think I will write a migration script to make my life easier.

So yeah, this is what I’ve been working on for the last few weeks and hopefully I will be able to release all of this by the end of the summer with 24.05, no promises though. I will also work on the wiki and the documentation on my free time, I want to make sure that I’ve everything well documented before 24.05.

But anyway, that’s all for now. See you in the next post.