pkgcore is a framework for package management; via the appropriate class plugins, the design should allow for any underlying repository/config/format to be used; slackware's tgzs being exempted due to lack of any real metadata, and autopackage format being exempted due to the fact they effectively embed the manager in each package (pkgcore does require being able to treat the pkg as data, instead of autopackage's method of handing resolution/all manager ops off to the package script).
At least python version 2.7, and snakeoil — a utility library with misc optimizations split out of pkgcore for others to use. For unittests, mock is required if you're using anything less than python 3.3.
Please submit an issue via Github. You can also send an email to the dev list ([email protected]) or stop by #pkgcore on Freenode.
pclonecache: clone a repository cache
pconfig: query configuration info
pebuild: low-level ebuild operations, go through phases manually
pinspect: inspect repository related info
pmaint: repository maintenance (syncing, copying...)
pmerge: dependency resolution, fetching, (un)merging, etc.
pquery: query repository info, revdeps, pkg search, vdb search, etc.
The official documentation can be found on readthedocs with alternative formats also available for download.
A standalone test runner is integrated in setup.py; to run, just execute:
python setup.py test
In addition, a tox config is provided so the testsuite can be run in a virtualenv setup against all supported python versions. To run tests for all environments just execute tox in the root directory of a repo or unpacked tarball. Otherwise, for a specific python version execute something similar to the following:
tox -e py27
Installing latest pypi release in a virtualenv:
pip install pkgcore
Installing from git in a virtualenv (note that snakeoil should be used from git):
pip install https://github.com/pkgcore/snakeoil/archive/master.tar.gz pip install https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcore/archive/master.tar.gz
Installing from a tarball or git repo:
python setup.py install pplugincache