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tsds

What is tsds and what does it do?

The app name tsds is an abbreviation for Termux Simple Desired State. It allows you to create a single git repository for your termux configuration. It allows you to only spend your time setting up your config once so that if you have to re-install Termux or install Termux on a new device, you don't have to waste a bunch of time writing your dot files, installing your favorite apps, re-making shortcuts for your Android widget for Termux, etc. If you don't load a configuration, it creates a blank one for you. The configuration sits at ~/.tsds by default and consists of specific directories and files that tsds will look for.

Install termux from fdroid before you try to use this tsds.

This is inspired by enterprise grade state configuration software like ansible, terragrunt, and terraform but instead of managing a fleet of 100s or 1000s of devices, this configures one at a time and is designed specifically for Turmux installed on non-rooted phones. It probably works on rooted phones just fine too but I haven't done any root-specific testing.

The current release 1.0.0 will apply your configuration but it won't tear-down so any apps you configure to install with this software will need to be un-done/removed/uninstalled manually. Make sure to backup any files with names matching patterns ~/.*, ~/.shortcuts/*, or $PREFIX/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tsds.list if you don't want them to be overwritten. Overwrites should be prompted for confirmation so nothing gets deleted without your input but still back your files up before running tsds just in case.

For a quick and dirty demo, here is how a full install and quick demonstration looks (don't do this until you read the rest of the doc though, so you can actually know what will happen). The example configuration adds the apt repo for tsds, adds a test dot file in the user's home directory that does nothing, installs some commonly used pkg/apt packages, and adds my favorite apps which don't have an apt package for termux including proot-distro archlinux, ansible, terraform, awscli 2, homebridge, and powershell, yes powershell.

# WARNING don't run this without reading the whole readme.md file! This might change your termux environment.

# Install the apt repo for tsds (no it's not gpg signed - see I told you read this stuff first)
echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://rhyknowscerious.github.io/tsds tsds main" > $PREFIX/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tsds.list

# Use pkg to update/upgrade your system
pkg update && pkg upgrade

# Install tsds
pkg install tsds

# Load a configuration
git clone git clone https://bitbucket.org/Rhyknowscerious/tsds-config.git ~/.tsds

# apply the configuration
tsds

How to install tsds:

echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://rhyknowscerious.github.io/tsds tsds main" > $PREFIX/etc/apt/sources.list.d/tsds.list
pkg update
pkg upgrade
pkg install tsds

How to use tsds:

Configure your Termux environment

Clone an existing configuration or create a blank one

You have three options:

1. If you have your own configuration, go ahead and do that with something like git clone https://whatever.com/whatever/your-tsds-config.git ~/.tsds

2. If you don't have your own configuration, there's an example configuration available at https://bitbucket.org/Rhyknowscerious/tsds-config/src/master/

   # https command
   git clone git clone https://bitbucket.org/Rhyknowscerious/tsds-config.git ~/.tsds
   
   # or
   
   # ssh command
   git clone git@bitbucket.org:Rhyknowscerious/tsds-config.git ~/.tsds

3. If you don't have git setup at all, a blank configuration will be created for you at ~/.tsds when you run the tsds command.

Once you have a configuration ready (by loading one or creating a blank one), it can all be exlpained here:

1. ~/.tsds/apt-repos/
   • Put files in here named whatever.list with information about additional repositories you'd like to add. For example, the example configuration mentioned above has tsds.list which enables the tsds repo.
   • When running tsds the app will make symbolic links to these files and put the links here: $PREFIX/etc/apt/sources.list.d/
2. ~/.tsds/dot-files/
   • Put files in here named .whatever which should be configurations like .bashrc,.profile,.vimrc,.mutt/muttrc or whatever you want.
   • When running tsds the app will make symbolic links to these files and put the links here: ~/
3. ~/.tsds/favorite/ has 3 items
   1. apps-with-repos.txt
      • For each app you want to install on termux using pkg, add the app name on its own line. Lines starting with # are ignored.
   2. apps-apt-only.txt
      • This is like apps-with-repos.txt for apps that aren't available via pkg. These apps are installed with apt
   3. apps-without-repos/
      • This is a directory for scripts to install software that doesn't have a deb package for termux at all. Instead of developing your own deb package for new software or software that's already out there, you can just put install scripts here. The example configuration mentioned above has scripts for ansible, awscli, homebridge, and terraform.
   • When running tsds the app will install all the apps listed in the txt files and run all the scripts in the apps-without-repos/ directory.
4. ~/.tsds/widget/.shortcts
   • Put scirpts in here that you'd like to see in the Android homescreen widget for Termux.
   • When running tsds all the scripts in ~/.tsds/widget/.shortcuts are copied into ~/.shortcuts. These are copied instead of linked symbolically because for some reason the widget won't read symbolic links from the tsds configuration locations.

When your configuration is ready apply, just execute tsds

# Execute tsds without updating pkg packages (for example you recently did a `pkg update`)
tsds

# or

# Have tsds update pkg packages before loading the config
tsds -u

How to develop tsds:

Here's the source code. It's open so you can contribute or fork as you like. Find the tsds project and development instructions here.