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This decision was drafted on 2026-08-05 during the pre-v0.2 release design consolidation and shipped in SOW v0.2.0 on 2026-08-08. It remains the layout contract in v0.3 and v0.4. It records an architecture choice, not a blanket compatibility claim: …

SOW provides one export subcommand: sow export rpm-leaf. It creates an external, standalone RPM repository whose repodata uses local pool/... hrefs. Synopsis sow export rpm-leaf DIST ARCH DIR [--hardlink] [-C|--workdir DIR] [-r|--repo NAME] [--json] …

This page defines the environments SOW ships for, the storage semantics it requires, and the exact scope of its automated integrations. Repository generation happens inside the SOW binary; a real package manager remains the final check for a deployed …

There are two different questions a client can ask about a repository, and SOW answers them with two separate mechanisms. Confusing them is the most common source of “I signed it but dnf still complains”, so this page starts by pulling them apart. …

pgsty/infra-pkg is the upstream build source for Pigsty Infra packages. This tutorial assumes the dual-architecture RPMs and DEBs already exist and covers the second half of the job: turning that pile of packages into a real, consumable, maintainable …

The invariant Within one Repository, every live Package Object has one canonical payload path under pool/. Dists and architecture views own metadata, not aliases of package bytes: <repo>/pool/... canonical package payloads …

sow rm, sow show, and sow where all take a PACKAGE argument. This page defines what you may write there. The same grammar applies to all three commands; only the handling of an ambiguous name differs. Nothing here applies to sow add, which takes …

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 is one executable: there is no service to enable and no runtime language environment. Release builds target Linux and macOS on amd64 and arm64; Linux also gets RPM and DEB packages. Windows is not supported. Use the Download page to select the …

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 …

This tutorial creates a new Managed RPM repository. You need a writable directory, and one or more RPM files. 1. Create the workspace mkdir -p /srv/sow cd /srv/sow sow init . sow repo new pigsty sow dist new el9 --format rpm -r pigsty The Dist name …

Install SOW from the Pigsty infra repository with apt install sow or dnf install sow, from a pinned RPM or DEB package, from a tar.gz archive for Linux or macOS on amd64 and arm64, or from a source build of a tagged release. Every route installs the …