Komac - Another WinGet Manifest Creator

Komac is an advanced CLI designed to create manifests for the WinGet Community Repository.

Komac is both blazingly fast 🔥 and incredibly low on memory, using just ~3.5MB of memory on my machine.

Installation

Komac is cross-platform and binaries are built for Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.

All platforms

If you have cargo installed, you can compile Rust for any platform

cargo install komac

Komac also supports cargo-binstall:

cargo binstall komac

Windows

Both portable EXEs and installers are available from the releases.

WinGet

winget install komac

Scoop

scoop install komac

Linux

Portable binaries are available from the releases. Debian (.deb) and Red Hat (.rpm) installers are also available.

macOS

Portable binaries for macOS are available from the releases.

Homebrew

brew install russellbanks/tap/komac

GitHub Token

Komac is currently only able to use a classic token. Whilst Komac can fully create manifests and commit with a fine-grained token, it fails to create a pull request to winget-pkgs. This may change as fine-grained tokens improve. See russellbanks#310.

Classic

A classic token with the public_repo scope.

Commands

Command	Description	Usage
New	Create a package from scratch	new
Update	Update a pre-existing package in winget-pkgs	update
Remove	Remove a version from winget-pkgs	remove
Branch Cleanup	Deletes branches that have had a merged or closed pull request to winget-pkgs	cleanup
Token update	Update stored GitHub OAuth token	token update
Token remove	Delete stored GitHub OAuth token	token remove

Update an existing package with a new version

komac update -i Package.Identifier -v 1.2.3 --urls https://www.firstUrl.com https://www.secondUrl.com --submit

Parameter	Usage	Notes
Package Identifier	--identifier
Version	--version
URLs	--urls	URLs are delimited by a space
Automatically submit	--submit
Token (if one is not already stored)	--token	Komac will check for a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable

Komac vs other tools 🏆

While other manifest creation tools have made remarkable strides in the winget-pkgs community, their development pace is notably slow and lacks the advanced detection capabilities that come with Komac.

	Komac	WingetCreate	YamlCreate
Parameters	✅	✅	❌
Works without Git	✅	✅	❌
Optimised manifest ordering 1	✅	✅️	✅
Fully cross-platform	✅	❌	Limited
Full MSI value retrieval	✅	Partial	Partial
Linux & macOS MSI support	✅	❌	❌
Full MSIX value retrieval	✅	Partial	Partial - Trenly/winget-pkgs#180
Get information from GitHub	✅	❌	❌
Formatted GitHub release notes retrieval	✅	❌	❌
Release date identification	✅	❌	❌
No telemetry	✅	⭕ 2	✅
Fully standalone (w/o winget-pkgs clone)	✅	✅	❌
Type-safety	✅	✅	❌
Inno setup detection	✅ 3	✅	✅ 4
Nullsoft detection	✅ 3	✅	✅ 4
Burn installer detection	✅ 3	✅	Opt-in feature (not enabled by default due to slow processing)
Progress bar & ETA while downloading	✅	❌	❌
Programming Language	Rust	C#	PowerShell

Usage with GitHub Actions: WinGet Releaser 🌟

WinGet Releaser is a GitHub Action that invokes Komac, passing in your release's URLs. This completely automates publishing to WinGet.

Example 📝

name: Publish to WinGet
on:
  release:
    types: [ released ]
jobs:
  publish:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      - uses: vedantmgoyal2009/winget-releaser@v2
        with:
          identifier: Package.Identifier
          token: ${{ secrets.WINGET_TOKEN }}
          # installers-regex: '\.exe$' # Only .exe files

Alternative actions 🔄

• Run Komac manually: michidk/run-komac
• Automate releases for external repositories: michidk/winget-updater

How can I support Komac? ❤️

• 🤝 Sponsor this project through GitHub Sponsors
• ⭐ Star this project! :)
• 🧑‍💻 Use Komac and create an issue for feature requests or bugs.

Star History ⭐

License

Komac is Free Software: You can use, study share and improve it at your will. Specifically you can redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Footnotes

1. If all installers have the same value, that value is put at the root of the manifest to reduce redundancy. ↩

2. Telemetry is enabled by default in WingetCreate. Use wingetcreate settings to manually disable telemetry. ↩

3. There is much more accurate detection for Inno, Nullsoft, and Burn installers since Komac v2. ↩ ↩² ↩³

4. The logic for this was contributed by me :) Check issues that I've opened to request this feature for YamlCreate. ↩ ↩²