F1uctus / alt-packagelists-comparator

ALT Package lists comparator

basealt binary package lists comparator. Built for the https://rdb.altlinux.org/api REST API.

Installing the library

Dependencies:

• Python 3.6+
• (Testing) Pytest
• (Optional) Poetry

Full dependency list is specified in pyproject.toml

Here and below, . points to the repository root directory.

Install with pip (requires pip >= 20.3.4 and setuptools >= 52):

$ python3 -m pip install .
# Use "pip install -e ." for editable install

Install with Poetry:

$ poetry install

Testing the library

With Pytest:

$ pytest ./tests

With Poetry:

$ poetry test

Test lists are cached by default (in cached_lists), and limited to aarch64 only. To disable caching, change USE_CACHED_LISTS in conftest.py to False.

Usage

The Unix-compatible CLI is located in bin/altpacom.

Arguments:

-a, --arch      ARCHITECTURE  Filter all packages to specified architecture only.
-x, --exclusive PLATFORM      List packages found only in specified platform.
-n, --newest    PLATFORM      List packages with newest version found in specified platform.
-v, --verbosity LEVEL         Show logs of specified level only (and above).
-h, --help                    Show more descriptive CLI help.

Example of output for command altpacom -x sisyphus -x p10 -n sisyphus:

{
  "exclusives": {
    "sisyphus": {
      "aarch64": [
        {
          "name": "...",
          "version": "..."
        }
      ],
      "...": []
    },
    "p10": {
      "aarch64": [
        {
          "name": "...",
          "version": "..."
        }
      ],
      "...": []
    }
  },
  "newest": {
    "sisyphus": {
      "aarch64": [
        {
          "name": "...",
          "version": "..."
        }
      ],
      "...": []
    }
  }
}