CRUX prt-get

ID

prt-get

Link

Home page

Version requirement

>= 5.19

Platforms

🐧 Linux (CRUX only)

Operations

installed · outdated · search · install · upgrade · upgrade_all · remove · sync

purl types

pkg:prt-get/

CLI name

prt-get

Issues and PRs

📦 manager: prt-get

Source

prt_get.py

The ports front-end of CRUX.

Caution

CRUX builds every port from source, so an install or an upgrade compiles. mpm caps a mutating operation at 500 seconds, which a large port outlasts by hours. Raise it for this manager with [mpm.overrides.prt-get] timeout.

What mpm adds to prt-get

Through mpm, prt-get gains --exact and --extended search, to narrow to exact names or match descriptions.

Bigger still, mpm reaches across every manager at once: mpm installed and mpm outdated cover prt-get alongside every other manager you run in one table, mpm upgrade --all updates them together, and mpm sbom exports the whole machine as one bill of materials.

Every mpm command also gains --dry-run and --plan previews, cross-scheme version comparison and purl identifiers. See manager augmentations for how each one is built.

Your prt-get commands, in mpm

You already know prt-get: each operation maps one-to-one onto mpm, in an interface shared by every manager.

To…	With prt-get	With mpm
List what’s installed	prt-get listinst -v	mpm --prt-get installed
List outdated packages	prt-get diff	mpm --prt-get outdated
Search for a package	`prt-get printf %n	%v
Install a package	sudo prt-get depinst dosfstools	mpm install pkg:prt-get/dosfstools
Upgrade one package	sudo prt-get update dosfstools	mpm --prt-get upgrade dosfstools
Upgrade everything	sudo prt-get sysup	mpm --prt-get upgrade --all
Remove a package	sudo prt-get remove dosfstools	mpm remove pkg:prt-get/dosfstools

Prefix any command above with --dry-run to simulate the underlying manager calls without touching the system: the safe way to watch what mpm would do before trusting it.

Operations

Operation	Supported	Notes
installed	✅
outdated	✅
orphans	❌	The listorphans command lists ports nothing depends on, which on a stock install includes the base system, so mapping it would remove the machine.
search	✅	Exact and extended search backfilled by mpm.
install	✅
upgrade	✅
upgrade_all	✅
remove	✅
sync	✅
cleanup
doctor

Configuration

• Ignore prt-get on the mpm CLI by passing the --no-prt-get option.

• Ignore it for every run in your configuration:

  [mpm]
  prt-get = false
  

• Raise the timeout of all prt-get calls:

  [mpm.overrides.prt-get]
  timeout = 900
  

• Run mpm config-template prt-get to print all overridable settings for your configuration file:

  [mpm.overrides.prt-get]
  cli_names = [
      "prt-get",
  ]
  cli_search_path = []
  dry_run = false
  ignore_auto_updates = true
  plan = false
  post_args = []
  pre_args = []
  pre_cmds = []
  requirement = ">=5.19"
  stop_on_error = false
  unmaintained = false
  version_cli_options = [
      "version",
  ]
  version_regexes = [
      "prt-get\\s+(?P<version>\\S+)",
  ]
  

Recipes

A few jobs you would otherwise script around prt-get, one mpm command each:

• Snapshot and clone a machine: mpm --prt-get dump prt-get.toml, then mpm restore prt-get.toml on the next one.

• Export a compliance SBOM: mpm --prt-get sbom (CycloneDX by default, --spdx for SPDX).

Privilege escalation

System-wide manager: mpm wraps its privileged operations in sudo out of the box. Instead of letting the tool prompt mid-run, mpm primes the credential cache up-front, with a single branded password prompt at most. Turn escalation off for rootless setups with --no-sudo or the per-manager sudo override.

Its privileged operations are install, remove, sync, upgrade, upgrade_all.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown

State of CRUX prt-get’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

Status: ❌ None (CRUX ports)

A cooldown only pays off where a compromised release can be withdrawn while the clock runs, and can only be emulated where the registry dates its releases. From the retraction table:

• Registry: Source-based recipe trees

• Retraction: Index revert of the recipe tree

• Publish date: ❌ a recipe carries no publication date

With --cooldown set, mpm skips this manager’s install and upgrade operations rather than run them unguarded (fail-closed); --cooldown best-effort opts back in.

Reference traces

A collection of raw native outputs captured from the manager’s own CLI and recorded in the manager source. If you know CRUX prt-get well and a transcript below looks wrong, or a newer release changed its output format, report it.

$ prt-get listinst -v
acl 2.3.2-1
attr 2.5.2-1
autoconf 2.72-1
automake 1.17-1
bash 5.2.37-1
bc 1.08.1-1

$ prt-get diff
Differences between installed packages and ports tree:

Port                Installed           Available in the ports tree

acl                 2.3.2-1             2.4.0-1
attr                2.5.2-1             2.6.0-1
autoconf            2.72-1              2.73-1
automake            1.17-1              1.18.1-1
bash                5.2.37-1            5.3.15-1

Version check

The version is probed by running:

$ prt-get version
prt-get 5.19.5 by Johannes Winkelmann, jw@tks6.net

and extracted with:

r"prt-get\s+(?P<version>\S+)"

Changelog

• 8.0.0 (2026-09-20)

  • Add the CRUX ports front-end with inventory, outdated, catalog search, install, remove, single-port upgrade, full upgrade and ports-tree sync.