A portable Python library to generate binary software repositories
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.
- Python >= 3.8
- If you plan to build repositories that require GPG signing
gpgcommand 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
- APT
- RPM
- Pacman
- Alpine apk
- FreeBSD pkg
pip install repopulatorDocumentation for API and command-line syntax is available at https://gershnik.github.io/repopulator/
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)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.debfrom 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)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.rpmfrom 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)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.zstfrom 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]')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.apkfrom 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)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