Sisyphus

Sisyphus is a open project targeting the development and maintenance of free and open-source software repository, suitable as a basis for distributions and solutions. Sisyphus is developed by the ALT Linux Team.

Sisyphus consists of

• software repository (Sisyphus repository), including infrastructure (git.alt). Web interface is available at packages.altlinux.org.
• packages building and testing tools (hasher, gear, sisyphus_check, qa_robot, repocop etc)
• repository integrity checking and management tools (apt)
• solution-creating tools (mkimage, Alterator, Installer).

See also ohloh analysis.

Sisyphus is available for x86 and x86_64 architectures with ARMv7 (hardfloat) port being operational and ARMv5/PowerPC ports having been archived.

More conservative repositories based on Sisyphus are stable branches created on a timely basis.