publish job manifests from a central repository

[mheily]

Currently, there is no central database of job manifests that can be used with launchd(8). I would like to see something like pkg(8), where you can download manifests from a repository on the Internet.

This bring up some questions like:

• What kind of security should be used to sign the manifests?
• Who will host the database?
• How do people contribute manifests to the database?
• How are updates to existing manifests handled?
• What are the commands people would run to download manifests?

I envision people running something like:

# launchctl search apache 

and getting a list of manifests that include the word 'apache'.

Then, when they decide they want to install one of these manifests, they can run:

# launchctl install apache

and it would install the manifest for Apache, which would (possibly) cause Apache to be installed, and then start up the service.