# buffrs mit Homebrew, Nix installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für buffrs in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:buffrs ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install buffrs ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#buffrs ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bu/buffrs/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:buffrs - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 0.13.3 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Modern protobuf package management - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream-Dokumentation:** - **Lizenz:** Apache-2.0 - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-03T18:40:32Z - **Generiert:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - buffrs (cli) - buffrs (Alias) ## Build-Abhängigkeiten - rust ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-07-08 - Manager-Version: 0.13.3 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-06-03 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/helsing-ai/buffrs - neueste erkannte Version: v0.13.3 (aktuell) ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung Buffrs is a Rust CLI for package-based Protocol Buffers distribution, designed around manifests, lock files, registry login, dependency installation, packaging, and publishing. ### Projektgeschichte Helsing created Buffrs to address a Protobuf distribution problem: raw `.proto` files are language-independent, but sharing them between projects often becomes ad hoc vendoring or generated-code publication. Buffrs treats Protobuf schemas as first-class packages. The README and book describe a package-manager workflow with `Proto.toml` manifests, recursive local dependencies, workspaces, Artifactory integration, reproducible lock files, and planned self-hosted registry work. ### Adoptionsgeschichte Buffrs has a focused adoption profile: it is available through Cargo, Homebrew, and Nix, and its own documentation highlights Artifactory-backed registries rather than a large public central registry. That makes it most relevant to organizations managing internal Protobuf APIs. Its public roadmap shows the project evolving from package manifests and Artifactory distribution toward additional Protobuf tooling such as bindgen, linting, validation, and formatting. ### Wie es verwendet wird The documented quickstart is `buffrs login`, `buffrs init --api`, `buffrs add `, and `buffrs install`. The CLI also supports creating packages, linting, removing dependencies, packaging, publishing, listing managed protobuf files, and lockfile operations. `Proto.toml` is the project manifest. Credentials are stored under `~/.buffrs/credentials.toml` according to the existing curation. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren Buffrs is package-nerd bait because it applies familiar package-manager primitives, manifests, lock files, registry login, dependency graphs, checksums, and publish/install commands, to raw Protobuf schema files. It overlaps conceptually with Buf modules but comes from a Rust/Helsing tooling angle and explicitly supports Artifactory-backed package distribution. ### Zeitleiste - 2020s: Helsing announced Buffrs as a package manager for Protocol Buffers. - 2020s: The README documented support for project manifests, dependency declaration, Artifactory package distribution, tonic generation, and protoc generation. - 2020s: The roadmap listed a future self-hostable S3-based `buffrs-registry` and additional Protobuf tooling. ### Related projects - Buf is the neighboring Protobuf module and registry ecosystem. - `protoc` and tonic are documented Buffrs generation backends. - Artifactory is a supported registry backend for publishing and consuming Buffrs packages. ### Quellen - - - - - source_facts.package-manager ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Configuration and credential file locations These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval. ## Configuration files - Unix: Proto.toml ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.buffrs/credentials.toml ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** buffrs - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - buffrs: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/bu/buffrs/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Verwandte Links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [planus](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/planus/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, rust, serialization. - [protobuf-c](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/protobuf-c/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, protobuf, serialization. - [capnp](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/capnp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, serialization. - [cargo-binstall](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cargo-binstall/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, rust. - [cargo-edit](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cargo-edit/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, rust. - [cargo-outdated](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/cargo-outdated/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, package-management, rust. - [dhall-json](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/dhall-json/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, serialization. - [flatbuffers](https://www.automicvault.com/de/pkg/brew/flatbuffers/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, serialization. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/buffrs.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/buffrs.yml) ## Quellen - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated configuration and credential file locations - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph