:mod:`apt_inst` - Working with local Debian packages ==================================================== .. module:: apt_inst This module provides useful classes and functions to work with archives, modelled after the :class:`tarfile.TarFile` class. For working with Debian packages, the :class:`DebFile` class should be used as it provides easy access to the control.tar.* and data.tar.* members. The classes are mostly modeled after the :class:`tarfile.TarFile` class and enhanced with APT-specific methods. Because APT only provides a stream based view on a tar archive, this module's :class:`TarFile` class only provides a very small subset of those functions. Exceptions ---------- .. class:: Error This is the same class as :class:`apt_pkg.Error`, provided here for convenience. AR Archives ----------- .. class:: ArArchive(file) An ArArchive object represents an archive in the 4.4 BSD AR format, which is used for e.g. deb packages. The parameter *file* may be a string specifying the path of a file, or a :class:`file`-like object providing the :meth:`fileno` method. It may also be an int specifying a file descriptor (returned by e.g. :func:`os.open`). The recommended way is to pass in the path to the file. ArArchive (and its subclasses) support the iterator protocol, meaning that an :class:`ArArchive` object can be iterated over yielding the members in the archive (same as :meth:`getmembers`). .. describe:: archive[key] Return a ArMember object for the member given by *key*. Raise LookupError if there is no ArMember with the given name. .. describe:: key in archive Return True if a member with the name *key* is found in the archive, it is the same function as :meth:`getmember`. .. method:: extract(name[, target: str]) -> bool Extract the member given by *name* into the directory given by *target*. If the extraction failed, an error is raised. Otherwise, the method returns True if the owner could be set or False if the owner could not be changed. It may also raise LookupError if there is no member with the given name. The parameter *target* is completely optional. If it is not given, the function extracts into the current directory. .. method:: extractall([target: str]) -> bool Extract all into the directory given by target or the current directory if target is not given. If the extraction failed, an error is raised. Otherwise, the method returns True if the owner could be set or False if the owner could not be changed. .. method:: extractdata(name: str) -> bytes Return the contents of the member given by *name*, as a bytes object. Raise LookupError if there is no ArMember with the given name. .. method:: getmember(name: str) -> ArMember Return a ArMember object for the member given by *name*. Raise LookupError if there is no ArMember with the given name. .. method:: getmembers() -> list Return a list of all members in the AR archive. .. method:: getnames() -> list Return a list of the names of all members in the AR archive. .. method:: gettar(name: str, comp: str) -> TarFile Return a TarFile object for the member given by *name* which will be decompressed using the compression algorithm given by *comp*. This is almost equal to:: member = arfile.getmember(name) tarfile = TarFile(file, member.start, member.size, 'gzip')' It just opens a new TarFile on the given position in the stream. .. class:: ArMember An ArMember object represents a single file within an AR archive. For Debian packages this can be e.g. control.tar.gz. This class provides information about this file, such as the mode and size. It has no constructor. .. attribute:: gid The group id of the owner. .. attribute:: mode The mode of the file. .. attribute:: mtime Last time of modification. .. attribute:: name The name of the file. .. attribute:: size The size of the files. .. attribute:: start The offset in the archive where the file starts. .. attribute:: uid The user id of the owner. Debian Packages --------------- .. class:: DebFile(file) A DebFile object represents a file in the .deb package format. It inherits :class:`ArArchive`. In addition to the attributes and methods from :class:`ArArchive`, DebFile provides the following methods: .. attribute:: control The :class:`TarFile` object associated with the control.tar.gz member. .. attribute:: data The :class:`TarFile` object associated with the data.tar.{gz,bz2,lzma,xz} member. .. attribute:: debian_binary The package version, as contained in debian-binary. Tar Archives ------------- .. class:: TarFile(file[, min: int, max: int, comp: str]) A TarFile object represents a single .tar file stream. The parameter *file* may be a string specifying the path of a file, or a :class:`file`-like object providing the :meth:`fileno` method. It may also be an int specifying a file descriptor (returned by e.g. :func:`os.open`). The parameter *min* describes the offset in the file where the archive begins and the parameter *max* is the size of the archive. The compression of the archive is set by the parameter *comp*. It can be set to any program supporting the -d switch, the default being gzip. .. method:: extractall([rootdir: str]) -> True Extract the archive in the current directory. The argument *rootdir* can be used to change the target directory. .. method:: extractdata(member: str) -> bytes Return the contents of the member, as a bytes object. Raise LookupError if there is no member with the given name. .. method:: go(callback: callable[, member: str]) -> True Go through the archive and call the callable *callback* for each member with 2 arguments. The first argument is the :class:`TarMember` and the second one is the data, as bytes. The optional parameter *member* can be used to specify the member for which call the callback. If not specified, it will be called for all members. If specified and not found, LookupError will be raised. .. class:: TarMember Represent a single member of a 'tar' archive. This class which has been modelled after :class:`tarfile.TarInfo` represents information about a given member in an archive. .. method:: isblk() Determine whether the member is a block device. .. method:: ischr() Determine whether the member is a character device. .. method:: isdev() Determine whether the member is a device (block,character or FIFO). .. method:: isdir() Determine whether the member is a directory. .. method:: isfifo() Determine whether the member is a FIFO. .. method:: isfile() Determine whether the member is a regular file. .. method:: islnk() Determine whether the member is a hardlink. .. method:: isreg() Determine whether the member is a regular file, same as isfile(). .. method:: issym() Determine whether the member is a symbolic link. .. attribute:: gid The owner's group id .. attribute:: linkname The target of the link. .. attribute:: major The major ID of the device. .. attribute:: minor The minor ID of the device. .. attribute:: mode The mode (permissions). .. attribute:: mtime Last time of modification. .. attribute:: name The name of the file. .. attribute:: size The size of the file. .. attribute:: uid The owner's user id. Removed functions --------------------- The following functions have been removed in python-apt 0.8. They are listed here to help developers port their applications to the new API which is completely different. For this purpose each function documentation includes an example showing how the function can be replaced. .. function:: arCheckMember(file, membername) This function has been replaced by using the :keyword:`in` check on an :class:`ArArchive` object:: member in ArArchive(file) .. function:: debExtract(file, func, chunk) This function has been replaced by the :meth:`TarFile.go` method. The following example shows the old code and the new code:: debExtract(open("package.deb"), my_callback, "data.tar.gz") #old DebFile("package.deb").data.go(my_callback) Please note that the signature of the callback is different in :meth:`TarFile.go`. .. function:: tarExtract(file,func,comp) This function has been replaced by the :meth:`TarFile.go` method. The following example shows the old code and the new code:: tarExtract(open("archive.tar.gz"), my_callback, "gzip") #old TarFile("archive.tar.gz", 0, 0, "gzip").go(my_callback) Please note that the signature of the callback is different in :meth:`TarFile.go`, it now expects a :class:`TarMember` and a bytestring of the data. .. function:: debExtractArchive(file, rootdir) This function has been replaced by :meth:`TarFile.extractall` and :attr:`DebFile.data`:: debExtractArchive(open("package.deb"), rootdir) # old DebFile("package.deb").data.extractall(rootdir) # new .. function:: debExtractControl(file[, member='control']) This function has been replaced by :attr:`DebFile.control` and :meth:`TarFile.extractdata`. In the following example, both commands return the contents of the control file:: debExtractControl(open("package.deb")) DebFile("package.deb").control.extractdata("control")