yeet mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• yeet

Projektgeschichte

The TecharoHQ/yeet repository was created on 2025-03-28. Its README presents the project as a way to declare build instructions as small JavaScript snippets, with a first-class `yeetfile.js` example that builds a Go program into an RPM.

The API documentation explains a deliberate design boundary: yeet executes JavaScript with goja, does not provide npm access, and does not allow importing code or data from other files. Reusable functionality is expected to become a native yeet interface instead of a local JavaScript dependency tree.

The tool evolved around practical packaging helpers: `deb`, `rpm`, and `tarball`-style native package builders, systemd extension and portable-service images, Docker aliases, Git helpers, file helpers, Go build helpers, and package upload integrations.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Yeet is a young, niche tool, so adoption evidence is necessarily light. Its README links a Repology packaging-status badge, pkg.go.dev indexes the Go module, Homebrew packages the command, and Techaro discussions mention using yeet while testing Techaro apt/rpm repository definitions.

Its likely adopters are maintainers of Go or mixed-language projects who want packaging recipes to stay close to source without writing full RPM spec/deb-helper machinery by hand for every simple artifact.

Wie es verwendet wird

A project adds a `yeetfile.js` and calls helpers such as `rpm.build` or `deb.build` with descriptor objects. The build callback can invoke shell commands with the `$` tagged-template helper and place compiled output in the package layout paths supplied by yeet.

The API docs also show uses beyond simple packages: building systemd configuration extensions, system extensions, portable service images, Docker images, copying files while preserving modes, reading Git tags, and uploading binary packages to Gitea-backed repositories.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Yeet is package-nerd significant because it is packaging tooling about package production itself. It tries to make native artifacts scriptable while avoiding the full dependency sprawl of a JavaScript toolchain.

Its no-import/no-npm rule is also notable: for packaging, fewer moving parts can be a feature. The project bakes common packaging operations into Go-backed helpers and leaves the recipe file as a compact declaration of what to build.

Zeitleiste

• 2025-03-28: The TecharoHQ/yeet repository is created.
• 2025: The README documents `yeetfile.js` recipes and native package examples.
• 2025: The API documentation covers helpers for Debian packages, RPM packages, tarballs, Docker, Git, files, Go builds, Gitea uploads, and systemd image formats.
• 2025-05-26: A Techaro Anubis discussion references a proof-of-concept apt/rpm repository for testing packages including yeet.

Related projects

• Related projects and technologies include goja, RPM packaging, Debian packaging, systemd portable services, systemd system extensions, Docker, Gitea package registries, Go build tooling, npm scripts, Make, goreleaser, nfpm, and project-local build recipes.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/TecharoHQ/yeet
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/yeet
• https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/discussions/567
• https://github.com/TecharoHQ/yeet
• https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/TecharoHQ/yeet
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TecharoHQ/yeet/main/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TecharoHQ/yeet/main/doc/api.md