# hostess mit Homebrew, Nix, pacman installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für hostess in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:hostess ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install hostess ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#hostess ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ho/hostess/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S hostess ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: hostess from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:hostess - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Paketmanager-Seite:** - **Version:** 0.5.2 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Idempotent command-line utility for managing your /etc/hosts file - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Lizenz:** MIT - **Quellarchiv:** - **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-27T14:32:25+02:00 - **Generiert:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00 ## Executables - hostess (cli) - hostess (Alias) ## Build-Abhängigkeiten - go ## Installationsverhalten - Post-install-Hook: nicht definiert - Bottle: verfügbar auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-04 - Manager-Version: 0.5.2 - Manager aktualisiert: 2026-07-27 - lokale Daten: OK - Upstream-Repository: https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess - neueste erkannte Version: v0.5.2 (aktuell) ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung hostess is a Go command-line utility for idempotently managing hosts-file entries. Its niche is deliberately small: add, remove, list, format, enable, disable, dump, and apply entries in `/etc/hosts` or the Windows hosts file without hand-editing the file. ### Projektgeschichte Chris Bednarski's README frames the motivation plainly: developers edit hosts files for development, testing, debugging, and production DNS failures, and manual edits are annoying. The project turns that workflow into a repeatable CLI suitable for Makefiles and deployment scripts. The changelog shows the package starting with v0.1.0 in 2015, then adding build reliability, fixed-format checks, Windows support, Go module support, and a significant CLI/API cleanup in 2020. ### Adoptionsgeschichte hostess reached users through GitHub releases and package managers including Homebrew, Nix, and Arch. Its cross-platform behavior matters for adoption because the Unix hosts file and Windows hosts file have different paths and formatting expectations. ### Wie es verwendet wird Common usage is `hostess add name ip`, `hostess rm name`, `hostess ls`, `hostess off name`, `hostess on name`, `hostess fmt`, `hostess dump`, and `hostess apply`. The README notes that elevated privileges are required because hosts files are protected by the operating system. Environment variables provide the small amount of configuration the tool needs: `HOSTESS_FMT` can override format detection and `HOSTESS_PATH` can override the hosts-file path. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren hostess is a tidy example of a package-manager-friendly utility: one small executable, obvious system integration, no daemon, and behavior that replaces a risky manual edit. The 2020 refactor is also package-relevant because it removed an external CLI dependency and modernized Go tooling. ### Zeitleiste - 2015: v0.1.0 initial release. - 2016: v0.2.x vendors the CLI dependency for more reliable builds. - 2018: v0.3.0 adds a fixed-format check and improves parsing failure behavior. - 2020: v0.4.0 refactors the CLI/API, removes external dependency usage, and adds Go module support. - 2020: v0.5.0 adds a Windows-specific hosts format. - 2020: v0.5.2 fixes and clarifies duplicate/conflicting entry handling in format mode. ### Related projects - The Unix `/etc/hosts` file and Windows `C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts` file are the managed targets. - Other hosts-file editors and local-development DNS helpers are related by workflow. - Go module tooling is related through the v0.4.0 project modernization. ### Quellen - CHANGELOG.md: release timeline and major behavior changes. - GitHub README: purpose, examples, hosts-file paths, environment variables, and privilege notes. - Homebrew input metadata: package-manager identity and ecosystem tags. ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Details aus der Quelldatenbank - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** hostess - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - hostess: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ho/hostess/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman - hostess - 0.5.2-5: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: hostess from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | An idempotent command-line utility for managing your /etc/hosts file. | https://github.com/cbednarski/hostess ## Verwandte Links - [Source-control packages](https://pkg.so/de/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://pkg.so/de/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Language runtime packages](https://pkg.so/de/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched language runtime, compiler, or interpreter metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://pkg.so/de/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [go](https://pkg.so/de/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [mactop](https://pkg.so/de/brew/mactop/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [gdu](https://pkg.so/de/brew/gdu/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [witr](https://pkg.so/de/brew/witr/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [mender-artifact](https://pkg.so/de/brew/mender-artifact/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [mender-cli](https://pkg.so/de/brew/mender-cli/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [g-ls](https://pkg.so/de/brew/g-ls/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [cpuid](https://pkg.so/de/brew/cpuid/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [gops](https://pkg.so/de/brew/gops/) - Shares pkgdb curated category or tags: cli, go, system. - [hostile](https://pkg.so/de/npm/hostile/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, etc, file, hosts, hosts-file. - [brename](https://pkg.so/de/brew/brename/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, command-line, file, line, system. - [clifm](https://pkg.so/de/brew/clifm/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, command-line, file, line, system. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/hostess.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/hostess.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - pkgdb category and tag curation - package relationship graph - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph