repopulator 1.1

Description:

repopulator 1.1

repolulator




A portable Python library to generate binary software repositories
Purpose
Ever needed to build an APT package repository on Fedora? Or perhaps a DNF repository on Debian? How about FreeBSD repository on Windows or Mac? This library allows you to do all these things and more. And yes, you can do it even on Windows if you are so inclined for some reason.
All binary package repositories have their own tools that usually range from being "non-portable" to "portable with lots of effort to limited platforms only". On the other hand it is often convenient to build software packages in a Map/Reduce fashion where a single host collects multiple packages built for different platforms to produce binary repositories. Such host will necessarily need to be able to build repositories for "foreign" packages. This library is an attempt to enable such scenario. It provides both programmatic and command-line access.
Requirements

Python >= 3.8
If you plan to build repositories that require GPG signing gpg command needs to be available in PATH
If you plan to build repositories that require private key signing OpenSSL > 3.0 libraries need to be available on your platform

Supported repository formats

APT
RPM
Pacman
Alpine apk
FreeBSD pkg

Installing
pip install repopulator

Documentation
Documentation for API and command-line syntax is available at https://gershnik.github.io/repopulator/
Examples
APT
Programmatic
from repopulator import AptRepo, PgpSigner

repo = AptRepo()

package1 = repo.add_package('/path/to/awesome_3.14_amd64.deb')
package2 = repo.add_package('/path/to/awesome_3.14_arm64.deb')

dist = repo.add_distribution('jammy')

repo.assign_package(package1, dist, component='main')
repo.assign_package(package2, dist, component='main')

signer = PgpSigner('name_of_key_to_use', 'password_of_that_key')

repo.export('/path/of/new/repo', signer)

Command-line
repopulator apt -o /path/of/new/repo -k name_of_key_to_use -w password_of_that_key \
-d jammy -c main \
-p /path/to/awesome_3.14_amd64.deb /path/to/awesome_3.14_arm64.deb

RPM
Programmatic
from repopulator import RpmRepo, PgpSigner

repo = RpmRepo()
repo.add_package('/path/to/awesome-3.14-1.el9.x86_64.rpm')
repo.add_package('/path/to/awesome-3.14-1.el9.aarch64.rpm')

signer = PgpSigner('name_of_key_to_use', 'password_of_that_key')

repo.export('/path/of/new/repo', signer)

Command-line
repopulator rpm -o /path/of/new/repo -k name_of_key_to_use -w password_of_that_key \
-p /path/to/awesome-3.14-1.el9.x86_64.rpm /path/to/awesome-3.14-1.el9.aarch64.rpm

Pacman
Programmatic
from repopulator import PacmanRepo, PgpSigner

repo = PacmanRepo('myrepo')
repo.add_package('/path/to/awesome-3.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst')
repo.add_package('/path/to/another-1.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst')

signer = PgpSigner('name_of_key_to_use', 'password_of_that_key')

repo.export('/path/of/new/repo', signer)

Command-line
repopulator pacman -o /path/of/new/repo -k name_of_key_to_use -w password_of_that_key \
-n myrepo -p /path/to/awesome-3.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /path/to/another-1.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Alpine apk
Programmatic
from repopulator import AlpineRepo, PkiSigner

repo = AlpineRepo('my repo description')
repo.add_package('/path/to/awesome-3.14-r0.apk')
repo.add_package('/path/to/another-1.23-r0.apk')

signer = PkiSigner('/path/to/private/key', 'password_or_None')

# Unlike `pkg` tool we do not parse signer name out of private key filename
# so you can name your key files whatever you wish
repo.export('/path/of/new/repo', signer, signer_name = '[email protected]')

Command-line
repopulator alpine -o /path/of/new/repo -d 'my repo description' \
-k /path/to/private/key.rsa -w password_of_that_key \
-s '[email protected]' \
-p /path/to/awesome-3.14-r0.apk /path/to/another-1.23-r0.apk

FreeBSD pkg
Programmatic
from repopulator import FreeBSDRepo, PkiSigner

repo = FreeBSDRepo()
repo.add_package('/path/to/awesome-3.14.pkg')
repo.add_package('/path/to/another-1.2.pkg')

signer = PkiSigner('/path/to/private/key', 'password_or_None')

repo.export('/path/of/new/repo', signer)

Command-line
repopulator freebsd -o /path/of/new/repo \
-k /path/to/private/key -w password_of_that_key \
-p /path/to/awesome-3.14.pkg /path/to/another-1.2.pkg