Arch Linux repository management scripts

Configuration

• The default configuration can be found in config.
• An optional config.local may override the default configuration.
• The path and name of the local configuration file can be overridden by setting the DBSCRIPTS_CONFIG environment variable.

Overview

The executables that you (might) care about are:

dbscripts/
├── cron-jobs/
│   ├── devlist-mailer
│   ├── ftpdir-cleanup
│   ├── integrity-check
│   └── sourceballs
├── db-move
├── db-remove
├── db-repo-add
├── db-repo-remove
├── db-update
└── testing2x

Ok, now let's talk about what those are.

There are 3 "main" programs:

• db-update : add packages to repositories
• db-remove : remove packages from repositories
• db-move : move packages from one repository to another

Moving packages from testing to stable repositories is such a common task that we have a wrapper around db-move to make it easier:

• testing2x

Of course, sometimes things go wrong, and you need to drop to a lower-level, but you don't want to go all the way down to pacman's repo-add/repo-remove. So, we have:

• db-repo-add
• db-repo-remove

Now, we'd like to be able to check that the repos are all OK, so we have

• cron-jobs/integrity-check

When we remove a package from a repository, it stays in the package "pool". We would like to be able to eventually remove packages from the pool, to reclaim the disk space:

• cron-jobs/ftpdir-cleanup

Things that haven't been mentioned yet:

• cron-jobs/devlist-mailer
• cron-jobs/sourceballs

Testing

• Install the make and podman or docker packages depending on your preferrence. The default expects docker but pomdan can be used if DOCKER=podman is specified. When using docker, start the docker daemon by issuing systemctl start docker.
• The test suite can now be run with make test.
• A coverage report can be generated with make test-coverage. Open coverage/index.html in your web browser to inspect the results.

Bats arguments or specific test can be run by providing CASES and BATS_ARGS:

make test DOCKER=podman CASES=cases/db-update.bats BATS_ARGS='-f Wrong'

License

For a long time, dbscripts didn't have an explicit license. Currently it is primarily licensed under the GPL-2.0-or-later, but some code is of unknown license. Details on clarifying the license status may be found in LICENSE_STATUS.md

tl;dr

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.