machine-envy

As seen on the excellent music thing

I’ve no idea why it has taken so long to find it, but have a look at esp package manager. It’s simple and it works. An example configuration file to show you what I mean:
## Metadata
%product Foo
%copyright 2000-2007 by Foowhizzer.
%vendor Foocom
%license COPYING
%readme README
%description Foo server.
%version 2.2.2 1
## Filelist
$prefix=/usr/local
f 755 root sys ${prefix}/bin/foo […]