repod 0.1.0

Tooling to maintain binary package repositories for Linux distributions using the pacman package manager

repod

This project contains tooling to maintain binary package repositories for Linux distributions using the pacman package manager.

The latest documentation can be found at repod.archlinux.page.

NOTE: Repod is still alpha grade software and as such has not yet reached its targetted feature set and has not been thoroughly tested in the field. It should not be used in a production environment!

Installation

You can install the latest released version of repod by executing

pip install repod

Requirements

When installing repod, its dependencies are automatically installed.

However, the project has a few special dependencies which can be replaced by other packages, depending on availability.

Pyalpm

The Python package pyalpm is not installable on all operating systems as it depends on the availability of libalpm (a C library), which is usually provided via pacman.

However, if pyalpm is detected, repod will make use of it for version comparison instead of a builtin implementation of this functionality, which is based on vercmp.

Python-magic

By default the python-magic Python package is used by repod to detect file types. The detection is based on libmagic (a C library), usually provided via file.

Confusingly, the file project also offers a Python module called file-magic, but it is not available on pypi.org and mostly only found on e.g. Linux distributions.

If file's file-magic Python module is detected, repod will make use of it for file type detection instead of using python-magic.

Contributing

Read our contributing guide to learn more about how to provide fixes or improvements for the code and documentation.

License

Repod's code is licensed under the terms of the GPL-3.0-or-later (see LICENSE) and its documentation is licensed under the terms of the GFDL-1.3-or-later (see docs/LICENSE).