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Installation
Weitere Installationsbefehle
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
Generates ASCII tractor art
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- tractorgen
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
tractorgen is a deliberately absurd command-line program that generates ASCII tractor art. Its official page treats the joke seriously, framing the program as a contribution to 'ASCII tractor mechanics'.
Projektgeschichte
The official page says tractorgen was written by Kbert, more as a dare than anything else, with original inspiration from SCOboy asking a dumb question. The page preserves the entire project in the style of old Unix freeware pages: introduction, news, binaries, source tarballs, packaging notes, changelog, mailing-list link, license, and related work.
Unlike many joke programs, tractorgen has a surprisingly detailed package history. The page records Red Hat packages in April 2000, VAX and OpenBSD binaries in September 2000, Windows binaries in March 2002, Debian packages and a web interface in April 2002, a FreeBSD port in December 2002, and migration of sources to GitHub in December 2008.
Adoptionsgeschichte
tractorgen's adoption history is mostly a tour of early-2000s packaging culture. The author page documents community-made binaries and ports across Red Hat, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, VAX, Windows, and a web interface capable of generating very large tractors. Homebrew later packaged version 0.31.7, keeping the joke installable through a modern package manager.
Wie es verwendet wird
The program's purpose is simply to generate ASCII tractors from a tractor coefficient. The official page notes that it enforces the 'fundamental theorem' that side-on ASCII tractors must have at least four wheels, and that attempts to make smaller tractors cause the program to abort and dump core.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
tractorgen is package-nerd bait: a tiny gag program with real tarballs, RPM specs, Debian packaging files, FreeBSD port archives, a GPL notice, a GitHub mirror, and a Homebrew formula. It is significant less for utility than for showing how package ecosystems preserve Unix jokes as runnable artifacts.
Zeitleiste
- 2000-04: Red Hat packages announced.
- 2000-09: VAX and OpenBSD binaries announced.
- 2002-04: Debian packages and a web interface announced.
- 2002-12: FreeBSD port announced.
- 2008-12: Sources moved to GitHub.
- 2008-12: Official page last modified.
- 2026: Homebrew formula reports stable version 0.31.7.
Related projects
- init.d/pants, Pat's ASCII Kfish generator, early RPM, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Homebrew packaging culture.
Quellen
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 8 Plattformziele verfügbar.
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Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
tractorgen | cli | globales Executable |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
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Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version0.31.7
Manager aktualisiert2026-07-10
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamnot checked
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/
- InfoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/none Konfidenz
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:tractorgen |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.31.7 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Paketmanager-Seite | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/tractorgen |
| Homepage | https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/kfish/tractorgen |
| Upstream-Dokumentation | https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen |
| Lizenz | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| Quellarchiv | https://vergenet.net/~conrad/software/tractorgen/dl/tractorgen-0.31.7.tar.gz |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-07-10T10:41:25-04:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux) |
| Homebrew post-install | nicht definiert |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
Registry-Fakten
Details aus der Quelldatenbank
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | tractorgen |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| 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
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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 package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment