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Debian packaging tools

Project description

The Python package deb-pkg-tools is a collection of functions to work with Debian packages and repositories. Some of those functions have a command line interface (see below) because they’re very convenient to use in shell scripts, while other functions are meant to be called directly from Python code.

Status

On the one hand the deb-pkg-tools package is based on my experiences with Debian packages and repositories over the past couple of years, on the other hand deb-pkg-tools itself is quite young. Then again most functionality is covered by automated tests; at the time of writing coverage is around 90% (some of the error handling is quite tricky to test if we also want to test the non-error case, which is of course the main focus :-)

Installation and usage

You can install the deb-pkg-tools package using the following command:

$ pip install deb-pkg-tools

After installation you’ll have the deb-pkg-tools program available:

$ deb-pkg-tools --help
Usage: deb-pkg-tools [OPTIONS]

Supported options:

  -i, --inspect=FILE          inspect the metadata in a *.deb archive
  -b, --build=DIR             build a Debian package with `dpkg-deb --build'
  -u, --update-repo=DIR       create/update a trivial package repository
  -a, --activate-repo=DIR     enable `apt-get' to install packages from a
                              trivial repository (requires root/sudo privilege)
  -d, --deactivate-repo=DIR   cleans up after --activate-repo
                              (requires root/sudo privilege)
  -w, --with-repo=DIR CMD...  create/update a trivial package repository,
                              activate the repository, run the positional
                              arguments as an external command (usually `apt-get
                              install') and finally deactivate the repository
  -v, --verbose               make more noise
  -h, --help                  show this message and exit

One thing to note is that the operation of deb-pkg-tools --update-repo can be influenced by a configuration file. For details about this, please refer to the documentation on deb_pkg_tools.repo.select_gpg_key().

If you’re interested in using deb-pkg-tools as a Python module, please refer to the function reference on Read the Docs.

Dependencies

The deb-pkg-tools package depends on the python-debian package for control file parsing. The following external programs are also required (depending on which functionality you need of course):

Program

Package

apt-ftparchive

apt-utils

apt-get

apt

ar

binutils

cat

coreutils

cp

coreutils

dpkg-deb

dpkg

dpkg-scanpackages

dpkg-dev

du

coreutils

fakeroot

fakeroot

gpg

gnupg

gzip

gzip

lintian

lintian

mv

coreutils

sed

sed

tar

tar

Contact

The latest version of deb-pkg-tools is available on PyPI and GitHub. The documentation is hosted on Read the Docs. For bug reports please create an issue on GitHub. If you have questions, suggestions, etc. feel free to send me an e-mail at peter@peterodding.com.

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license.

© 2014 Peter Odding.

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