qpkg - an ext. script for searching and managing packages

dma147 · 2005-08-16 12:40:26

qpkg is Arch Linux' "query package" tool, using it, you can search for packages in all known repositories (official, TUR and PUR) and in AUR, find packages owning files on your filesystem, check the integrity of installed packages, manage the PURs in your pacman configuration and do other queries against installed or uninstalled packages. You can install packages through the PKGBUILDs directly from AUR. And you can automatically update all packages which were installed directly from AUR. It takes care of the dependencies and install/update them if needed.

NEW: The voting function for AUR is now also included too!

You'll find it on AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=qpkg

Or directly on its homepage:
http://qpkg.berlios.de

And don't forget to vote for this script on AUR!

have fun.

dma147 · 2005-08-16 14:14:58

Version 0.1.3 is out now with the features announced above.

dma147 · 2005-08-18 05:40:25

Well, ...any suggestions and or feedback would be really fine...

_will · 2005-08-18 07:18:49

looks really cool, but i get an error

03:14:09~$ qpkg gstreamer
Searching for the packages...  

Search matches from the package names:

extra/gstreamer-0.8.10-1
    GNOME2 Multimedia Framework
    ftp://ftp.archlinux.de/pub/archlinux/extra/os/i686

Search matches from AUR:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/qpkg", line 1158, in ?
    PLIST = [spanTag.contents[0].string for spanTag in matchingSpanTags]
IndexError: list index out of range

out of curiosity, where are the know PUR list stored/ how is it recieved
qpkg-update grabs the list from linu-stats.org?

dma147 · 2005-08-18 12:26:03

Hi _will...
thanks for your feedback...
This is a known bug... I'm working on this... this comes from the html-code which AUR responds on some packagenames.

The "database"-files are generated every four hours and then uploaded to linux-stats.org. My home-computer generates them. I'm searching for repos and adding them to the list from which the files were generated.

dma147 · 2005-08-20 10:24:28

I've just release 1.0.0
Take a look at the url below and at the last comment on this page for a complete list of features.

--> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=1&ID=856

jftaylor21 · 2005-08-22 17:29:45

Good job with qpkg. It is very simple and easy to use. A nice feature would be a verbose option that would allow you to see what is going on when it is downloading/compiling.

dma147 · 2005-08-22 18:40:28

Thanks for your feedback.
I'll think about an 1.0.1 with this feature.

deficite · 2005-08-23 21:35:21

Very nice work. I use it all the time now.

abhaysahai · 2005-10-14 11:53:08

Thank you agin -- It really helped in installing e-cvs

Abhay

Moo-Crumpus · 2005-10-14 13:12:23

I will give it a try soon.

z4ziggy · 2005-10-14 16:50:34

really nice tool

just 1 remark if i may - on testing qpkg on itself (for example), why the use of /tmp/qpkg, /root/qpkg.packages, /var/cache/qpkg ? instead, why not do as aurbuild and create subfolder (from existing dir) of the package-name? i dont like having those dirs in various places, i prefer having everything in my /var/abs/local where i manually build my packages...

thanks for your contribution

kozaki · 2005-11-11 10:54:04

+1 really *nice* tool

Thank you for having implemented an easy-way to clean /var/cache/pacman/src & ~/pkg :

# qpkg -s    

Calculating directory sizes and space which can be freed...

Directory-Listing:
=============================================================
Directory                 Files    Size (b)       Size (mb)     
-------------------------------------------------------------
/var/cache/pacman/src     31       83348786       79.488        
/var/cache/pacman/pkg     140      227816375      217.263       
-------------------------------------------------------------
Total used space:                  311165161      296.75        

Do you want me to start the deletion of the unused files now?
[Y/n]   

Deletion done.

~300MB recovered first time I used it, which is much more (precise as well) than I could achieve with pacman -Sc

Some repositories from qpkg -r list could not be found yet :

]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases... 
 testing                  [################] 100%       3K     2.9K/s  00:00:01
 current                  [/media/mirrors/archlinux/current/] 100%    LOCAL 
 extra                    [/media/mirrors/archlinux/extra/os] 100%    LOCAL 
 community                [################] 100%      30K    94.9K/s  00:00:00
redirection not supported

failed downloading /berkus.db.tar.gz from arch.madfire.net: HTTP/1.1 302 Found

failed to synchronize berkus
connect: Connection timed out
error: cannot connect to celti.a.la
failed to synchronize celti
failed downloading /pacman/effigies.db.tar.gz from effigies.freelinuxhost.com: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

failed to synchronize effigies
connect: Connection refused
error: cannot connect to phrakture.homelinux.net
failed to synchronize phrakture
error: could not open sync database: berkus

dma147 · 2005-11-11 11:48:06

kozaki wrote:

+1 really *nice* tool

Thank you for having implemented an easy-way to clean /var/cache/pacman/src & ~/pkg :

# qpkg -s    

Calculating directory sizes and space which can be freed...

Directory-Listing:
=============================================================
Directory                 Files    Size (b)       Size (mb)     
-------------------------------------------------------------
/var/cache/pacman/src     31       83348786       79.488        
/var/cache/pacman/pkg     140      227816375      217.263       
-------------------------------------------------------------
Total used space:                  311165161      296.75        

Do you want me to start the deletion of the unused files now?
[Y/n]   

Deletion done.

~300MB recovered first time I used it, which is much more (precise as well) than I could achieve with pacman -Sc

Hehe, great that you like it.

Some repositories from qpkg -r list could not be found yet :

]# pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases... 
 testing                  [################] 100%       3K     2.9K/s  00:00:01
 current                  [/media/mirrors/archlinux/current/] 100%    LOCAL 
 extra                    [/media/mirrors/archlinux/extra/os] 100%    LOCAL 
 community                [################] 100%      30K    94.9K/s  00:00:00
redirection not supported

failed downloading /berkus.db.tar.gz from arch.madfire.net: HTTP/1.1 302 Found

failed to synchronize berkus
connect: Connection timed out
error: cannot connect to celti.a.la
failed to synchronize celti
failed downloading /pacman/effigies.db.tar.gz from effigies.freelinuxhost.com: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

failed to synchronize effigies
connect: Connection refused
error: cannot connect to phrakture.homelinux.net
failed to synchronize phrakture
error: could not open sync database: berkus

yeah... unfortunatly these user-repositories changes very often and some of them also are located on an homeserver under a dynamic ip.
So you have to remove the not working repositories from your qpkg-r list.

I will update these repositories soon.

Pajaro · 2005-11-11 12:33:15

i love it

phrakture · 2005-11-11 16:57:17

dma147 wrote:

yeah... unfortunatly these user-repositories changes very often and some of them also are located on an homeserver under a dynamic ip.
So you have to remove the not working repositories from your qpkg-r list.
I will update these repositories soon.

The list on xentac.net, and all the old TURs were removed recently - the PKGBUILDs will be uploaded to the AUR when some of the TUs get time.

We discussed that in a TU meeting ages ago, and it took Xentac 3 months to do it (lazy bastard!).

As for personal repos, I am not sure if a list is maintained anymore.

dma147 · 2005-11-12 23:19:20

@mambro: yes. Maybe I'll implement the automatic installation of dependencies for a next version soon...

mmccaskill · 2005-12-07 20:56:40

Does this allow searching owner of files for packages not yet installed? Like

pacman -Qo <file>

but searching for not-yet installed packages.

Pajaro · 2005-12-27 12:02:47

couldn't you make it check if the packages are already installed or not, like pajman does? That's something really simple and helpfull.

dma147 · 2005-12-27 14:27:01

sure I can...
But first I have to reinstall my arch box again...

kozaki · 2006-01-11 17:46:59

Found it once again very usefull when mplayer-cvs started to complain about missing libs.

$ qpkg -f liblzo.so
Searching for package that contains "liblzo.so"...
/usr/lib/liblzo.so.1.0.0 is owned by lzo 1.08-4
$ qpkg -f mpcdec
Searching for package that contains "mpcdec"...
/usr/include/mpcdec/config_types.h is owned by libmpcdec 1.2.1-1
/usr/include/mpcdec/decoder.h is owned by libmpcdec 1.2.1-1
$ qpkg -f libjack.so
Searching for package that contains "libjack.so"...
/usr/lib/libjack.so is owned by jack-audio-connection-kit 0.100.0-3
/usr/lib/libjack.so.0 is owned by jack-audio-connection-kit 0.100.0-3

All i have to do was installing the packages qpkg printed

qpkg -f [some_file] is a great tool

pkmorrison · 2006-03-05 18:35:53

recently qpkg started erroring on AUR search part
i tried reinstalling, but no joy
-------------------------------------------------------------------
# qpkg backup
Searching for the packages...

Search matches from the package names:

vapor/dvdbackup-0.1.1-1
dvd backup software
http://atum.lab.ic.unicamp.br/~lfelipe/arch/vapor

Search matches from AUR:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/qpkg", line 1582, in ?
matchingSpanTags = soup.fetch('span', desiredAttributes)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qpkg/BeautifulSoup.py", line 491, in fetch
return self._fetch(name, attrs, text, limit, generator)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qpkg/BeautifulSoup.py", line 187, in _fetch
if not self._matches(check, matchAgainst):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qpkg/BeautifulSoup.py", line 244, in _matches
return howToMatch(chunk)
File "/usr/bin/qpkg", line 1579, in blueOrBlackMatcher
return value.lower() in ('blue', 'black', 'green')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower'
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

dma147 · 2006-03-05 21:26:33

pkmorrison wrote:

recently qpkg started erroring on AUR search part
i tried reinstalling, but no joy
-------------------------------------------------------------------
# qpkg backup
Searching for the packages...
Search matches from the package names:
vapor/dvdbackup-0.1.1-1
dvd backup software
http://atum.lab.ic.unicamp.br/~lfelipe/arch/vapor
Search matches from AUR:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/qpkg", line 1582, in ?
matchingSpanTags = soup.fetch('span', desiredAttributes)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qpkg/BeautifulSoup.py", line 491, in fetch
return self._fetch(name, attrs, text, limit, generator)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qpkg/BeautifulSoup.py", line 187, in _fetch
if not self._matches(check, matchAgainst):
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/qpkg/BeautifulSoup.py", line 244, in _matches
return howToMatch(chunk)
File "/usr/bin/qpkg", line 1579, in blueOrBlackMatcher
return value.lower() in ('blue', 'black', 'green')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower'
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This can happen when the interface of AUR which will be searched by qpkg has changed.

Unfortunatly I've no working Arch atm, but I'll try to fix this asap.

Sigi · 2006-03-10 09:23:07

qpkg is a really nice script! Thank you for building it ( - oder danke, unter Deutschsprachigen )

I also get the error pkmorrison posted. Would be nice to see a fixed qpkg sooner or later...

Cheers Sigi

dma147 · 2006-03-10 15:36:33

Unfortunatly this error-msg doesn't appear with all packages you're searching for... so it's hard to debug and fix...

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