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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- kerl
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
kerl is a POSIX-shell tool for building, installing, activating, deploying, and managing Erlang/OTP installations from source.
Projektgeschichte
The kerl/kerl repository was created on GitHub on 2011-07-05. Its README describes a shell-agnostic tool whose direct dependencies are curl and git, excluding the system packages needed to compile Erlang/OTP itself.
kerl's design centers on separating builds from installations: once a particular OTP release is built, the build can be installed quickly into one or more destinations and activated per shell session.
Adoptionsgeschichte
kerl became a durable part of Erlang and Elixir development because it solved the practical problem of compiling many OTP versions with different configure options. The asdf-erlang plugin explicitly says it relies on kerl for builds and combines kerl's compatibility/build scripts with asdf's version-switching UX.
On 2026-07-01, GitHub API metadata reported 1,660 stars and 236 forks, and Homebrew metadata listed kerl 4.4.0.
Wie es verwendet wird
Users run kerl list releases, kerl build, kerl install, and shell activation scripts to work with specific Erlang/OTP versions. The README also documents building from the official Erlang/OTP GitHub tags, official Erlang downloads, or arbitrary Git refs and forks.
In package-manager workflows, kerl is often the lower-level build engine beneath friendlier version managers, especially when macOS, Linux distro, OpenSSL, wxWidgets, or documentation-build quirks matter.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
kerl is significant because it is small shell code that encodes years of Erlang/OTP build knowledge. It sits between language-runtime packaging and developer version management, much like ruby-build or pyenv installers do for their ecosystems.
Zeitleiste
- 2011-07-05: kerl/kerl repository created on GitHub.
- 2023-10-12: 4.0.0 release published.
- 2025-06-19: 4.4.0 release published.
- 2026-07-01: Homebrew formula metadata listed kerl 4.4.0.
Related projects
- Erlang/OTP is the runtime kerl builds and installs.
- asdf-erlang relies on kerl for Erlang builds while adding asdf's .tool-versions workflow.
- Homebrew packages kerl directly for macOS users.
Quellen
- https://api.github.com/repos/kerl/kerl
- https://api.github.com/repos/kerl/kerl/releases?per_page=10
- https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/kerl.json
- https://github.com/erlang/otp
- https://github.com/kerl/kerl
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/master/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kerl/kerl/master/README.md
- https://www.erlang.org/downloads
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
- Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 1 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
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
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.kerlrc
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
kerl | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.
Seite generiert2026-07-08
Manager-Version4.4.0
Manager aktualisiert
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Version4.4.0
- InfoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.niedrig Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:kerl |
|---|---|
| Version | 4.4.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/kerl |
| Homepage | https://github.com/kerl/kerl |
| Repository | https://github.com/kerl/kerl |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://github.com/kerl/kerl#readme |
| Lizenz | MIT |
| Quellarchiv | https://github.com/kerl/kerl/archive/refs/tags/4.4.0.tar.gz |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf all) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | kerl |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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Quellspur
Aus Repository-Daten generiert
Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment