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SOW 0.3.0 is a performance, durability, and product-focus release. Plain repository generation completes with one package-content pass. Managed repositories avoid per-object membership queries, reuse authenticated package facts, and promote payloads …

SOW is not primarily a metadata generator. It is an ownership and state-transition system whose output happens to be APT and RPM repositories. The following principles keep that system small enough to reason about. One owner for every durable fact …

Plain or Managed The two execution paths are separate. Plain Managed Entry point sow create DIR init, repo, dist, add, rm, build State package directory sow.yml plus private SQLite/journals Public layout flat RPM/DEB indexes Repository pool/ + dists/ …

SOW has two isolated execution paths. Plain mode is a stateless rebuild of one directory; Managed mode records package membership and immutable repository generations in a workspace. Neither path silently adopts state from the other. Capability …

Plain mode builds a flat repository in one directory. It does not read sow.yml, create a workspace, or keep a database. Prepare a directory Put RPM and/or DEB files at the directory top level. sow create does not recurse and does not move or rename …

sow create takes a directory that already contains .rpm and .deb files and writes flat repository indexes beside them. Plain mode has no workspace, configuration file, database, desired state, or operation journal. The package directory is the …

SOW builds static RPM/YUM and DEB/APT repositories; it is not an HTTP daemon. Choose one of two isolated paths: Plain: sow create rebuilds indexes beside the packages in an ordinary directory. Managed: a workspace tracks package membership, Dists, …

sow create turns a directory that already contains .rpm and .deb files into a flat repository by writing indexes next to the packages. It is the whole of Plain mode: no sow.yml, no SQLite, no Workspace discovery. This page covers the one-pass scan …