Solus eopkg

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eopkg

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⭐ 17

Last commit

2026-09-05

Version requirement

>= 3.2

Platforms

🐧 Linux

Operations

installed · outdated · search · install · upgrade · upgrade_all · remove · sync · cleanup

purl types

pkg:eopkg/

CLI name

eopkg

Every call

eopkg --no-color <command>

Issues and PRs

📦 manager: eopkg

Source

eopkg.py

Solus’ eopkg package manager, a PiSi fork.

installed and outdated parse eopkg’s fixed-width, |-delimited status table; the column regex requires that pipe structure, so the header and === separator rows fall through. --no-color is forced to keep the output free of ANSI escapes.

Mutating operations pass --yes-all to auto-confirm eopkg’s prompts so they run unattended.

Note

eopkg 4.x and 5.x read their output encoding from the locale alone, so the same command run by hand can abort on a non-ASCII package summary where it works through mpm, which exports a UTF-8 locale.

What mpm adds to eopkg

Through mpm, eopkg gains --exact search, to narrow results to exact names.

Bigger still, mpm reaches across every manager at once: mpm installed and mpm outdated cover eopkg alongside every other manager you run in one table, mpm upgrade --all updates them together, and mpm sbom exports the whole machine as one bill of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

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

To…	With eopkg	With mpm
List what’s installed	eopkg list-installed --install-info	mpm --eopkg installed
List outdated packages	eopkg list-upgrades --install-info	mpm --eopkg outdated
Search for a package	eopkg search --name htop	mpm --eopkg search htop
Install a package	sudo eopkg install --yes-all htop	mpm install pkg:eopkg/htop
Upgrade one package	sudo eopkg upgrade --yes-all bash	mpm --eopkg upgrade bash
Upgrade everything	sudo eopkg upgrade --yes-all	mpm --eopkg upgrade --all
Remove a package	sudo eopkg remove --yes-all htop	mpm remove pkg:eopkg/htop
Clear caches	sudo eopkg remove-orphans --yes-all	mpm --eopkg cleanup --cache

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
search	✅	Exact search backfilled by mpm.
install	✅
upgrade	✅
upgrade_all	✅
remove	✅
sync	✅
cleanup	✅
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Configuration

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

• Ignore it for every run in your configuration:

  [mpm]
  eopkg = false
  

• Raise the timeout of all eopkg calls:

  [mpm.overrides.eopkg]
  timeout = 900
  

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

  [mpm.overrides.eopkg]
  cli_names = [
      "eopkg",
  ]
  cli_search_path = []
  dry_run = false
  ignore_auto_updates = true
  plan = false
  post_args = []
  pre_args = [
      "--no-color",
  ]
  pre_cmds = []
  requirement = ">=3.2.0"
  stop_on_error = false
  unmaintained = false
  version_cli_options = [
      "--version",
  ]
  version_regexes = [
      "eopkg(?:\\.bin)?\\s+(?P<version>\\S+)",
  ]
  

The arguments and environment variables listed in the box atop this page are forced on every eopkg call, so runs stay quiet, non-interactive and reproducible: the defaults you would set in CI anyway.

Recipes

A few jobs you would otherwise script around eopkg, one mpm command each:

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

• Export a compliance SBOM: mpm --eopkg 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 cleanup, install, remove, sync, upgrade, upgrade_all.

See privilege escalation for the full policy.

Cooldown

State of Solus eopkg’s release-age gating, from the cooldown support table:

Status: ❌ None

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: Distro binary archives (pkg:deb, pkg:rpm, pkg:alpm, pkg:apk)

• Retraction: Index revert: removal is an archive operation and the mirror is rebuilt without the package. Debian, for one, requires filing an RM: bug against ftp.debian.org (developers-reference)

• Publish date: ❌ the version string is the distro maintainer’s build, carrying no upstream 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 Solus eopkg well and a transcript below looks wrong, or a newer release changed its output format, report it.

$ eopkg --no-color list-installed --install-info
Package Name          |St|        Version|  Rel.|  Distro|             Date
===========================================================================
aalib                 | i|        1.4.0_5|     9|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
abseil-cpp            | i|     20260107.1|    11|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
accounts-qml-module   | i|            0.7|     6|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
accountsservice       | i|        23.13.9|    38|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
acl                   | i|          2.3.2|    22|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-firmware         | i|          1.2.4|     8|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-lib              | i|         1.2.14|    41|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-plugins          | i|         1.2.12|    26|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-ucm-conf         | i|         1.2.13|     1|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-utils            | i|         1.2.13|    29|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
anthy                 | i|          9100h|     4|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
aom                   | i|         3.12.1|    26|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
appstream             | i|          1.1.2|    17|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
appstream-catalog     | i|       20260417|    52|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
appstream-qt6         | i|          1.1.2|    17|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
argon2                | i|       20190702|     6|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08

$ eopkg --no-color list-upgrades --install-info
Package Name          |St|        Version|  Rel.|  Distro|             Date
===========================================================================
acl                  | i|          2.3.2|    22|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-lib             | i|         1.2.14|    41|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-ucm-conf        | i|         1.2.13|     1|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
alsa-utils           | i|         1.2.13|    29|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
anthy                | i|          9100h|     4|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
aom                  | i|         3.12.1|    26|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08
appstream            | i|          1.1.2|    17|   Solus|07 Sep 2026 10:08

Version check

The version is probed by running:

$ eopkg --version
eopkg.bin 5.0.0

and extracted with:

r"eopkg(?:\.bin)?\s+(?P<version>\S+)"

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Changelog

• 8.0.0 (2026-09-20)

  • Detect Solus, where every run reported an unrecognized platform and selected no manager at all.

  • Fix version detection on eopkg 5.0.0, which calls itself eopkg.bin in its banner: the manager left the pool on every Solus host running it.

  • Fix installed and outdated, which silently dropped the last two packages of every listing, and report the upgrade target in outdated, which had none.

  • Fix search, which passed an empty argument to eopkg in extended mode, and decode the character references its descriptions carry.

  • Correct the commands shown on each manager’s page, which named fewer options than mpm actually runs.

• 7.1.0 (2026-07-07)

  • upgrade --all now passes --yes-all, matching the single-package upgrade, so it no longer hangs on an interactive confirmation prompt.

• 7.0.0 (2026-06-26)

  • Fix installed, outdated, and search returning no packages.

• 5.20.0 (2024-11-25)

  • Add support for new eopkg manager. Closes #1093.