glpkg 1.3.0

Tool to make GitLab generic package registry operations easy.

glpkg - GitLab Generic Package tools

glpkg is a tool that makes it easy to work with GitLab generic packages.

Installation

Install the tool from with pip:

pip install glpkg

To check the installation and version, run:

glpkg --version

If you see a version in the terminal, you're good to go!

Usage

By default, the used GitLab host is gitlab.com. If you use a self-hosted GitLab, use argument --host my-gitlab.net with the commands.

Only https scheme is supported.

To authenticate with the package registry in any of the commands below, use --token readapitoken123 argument where the readapitoken123 is a personal or project access token, with read API scope. In case the package registry is public, you can omit this argument.

Alternatively you can use a token stored in your .netrc file by setting --netrc argument.

If you use the tool in GitLab CI, read below on how to use the CI_JOB_TOKEN.

The arguments related to the GitLab host or authentication (--token, --netrc, and --ci) are omitted in the examples below to focus on the commands.

In general, run glpkg --help when needed.

Listing package versions

To list the versions of a generic package, run

glpkg list --project 12345 --name mypackagename

Where:

• 12345 is your projects ID (Find the Project ID) or the path of the project (like namespace/project)
• mypackagename is the name of the generic package

The output will be, if package is found, something like:

Name            Version
mypackagename   1.0
mypackagename   1.5
mypackagename   2.0

Download generic package

To download all files from a specific version of a generic package, run

glpkg download --project 12345 --name mypackagename --version 1.0

Where:

• 12345 is your projects ID (Find the Project ID) or the path of the project (like namespace/project)
• mypackagename is the name of the generic package
• 1.0 is the version of the generic package from which the files are downloaded

By default the files will be downloaded in the current working directory. To download the files to another directory, add argument --destination to the command. In all cases, as long as you have permissions to the destination directory, any pre-existing files will be overridden without warning.

To download only a specific file from the package, add --file argument.

glpkg download --project 12345 --name mypackagename --version 1.5 --file the_only_one --destination /temp

If a package has multiple files with the same filename, the tool can only download the newest file. This is a restriction of GitLab API.

Upload a file to a generic package

To upload a file to a version of a generic package, run

glpkg upload --project 12345 --name mypackagename --version 1.0 --file my-file.txt

Where:

• 12345 is your projects ID (Find the Project ID) or the path of the project (like namespace/project)
• mypackagename is the name of the generic package
• 1.0 is the version of the generic package to which the file is uploaded
• my-file.txt is the file that is uploaded to the generic package. Only relative paths are supported, and the relative path (e.g. folder/file.txt) is preserved when uploading the file to the package.

A GitLab generic package may have multiple files with the same file name. However, it likely is not a great idea, as they cannot be downloaded separately from the GitLab API.

To upload multiple files, or to upload a single file from a different directory, use --source argument. If no --file argument is set, all of the files in the source directory are uploaded, recursively. As an example, to upload all files from a upload folder to the package:

glpkg upload --project 12345 --name mypackagename --version 1.0 --source upload

Note: a file in upload folder will be uploaded to the root of the package. If you want to upload the file to a dir folder in the package, make a structure in the upload folder, like upload/dir/.

Use in GitLab pipelines

If you use the tool in a GitLab pipeline, setting argument --ci uses GitLab predefined variables to configure the tool. In this case CI_SERVER_HOST, CI_PROJECT_ID, and CI_JOB_TOKEN environment variables are used. The --project, and --token arguments can still be used to override the project ID or to use a personal or project access token instead of CI_JOB_TOKEN.

In other words, you don't need to give the --host, --project, or --token arguments if you are interacting with the package registry of the project where the pipeline is running. Example: uploading my-file.txt to generic package mypackagename version 1.0 in the project package registry in CI:

glpkg upload --ci --name mypackagename --version 1.0 --file my-file.txt

To use the CI_JOB_TOKEN with package registry of another projects, add --project <otherproject ID> argument. Remember that you may need to add permissions for the CI_JOB_TOKEN in the other project.

Limitations

The tool is not perfect (yet) and has limitations. The following limitations are known, but more can exist:

• Only project registries are supported for now.