https://github.com/relrod/pkgbot

An IRC bot that lets you query the package database of many distributions/repositories.
https://github.com/relrod/pkgbot

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An IRC bot that lets you query the package database of many distributions/repositories.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/relrod/pkgbot
• Owner: relrod
• Created: 2012-06-19T08:49:44.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-05-21T04:22:36.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T21:21:57.083Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 148 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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# pkgbot

An IRC bot which provides information about packages in various distros'

repos.

# Using it

The bot is written in Python and requires the following modules:

* twisted

* requests

* beautifulsoup

On Fedora and RHEL, this can be obtained with:

`yum install python-twisted python-requests python-BeautifulSoup`

(On RHEL/CentOS this requires EPEL.)

There's a set of scripts that determine how to obtain search results

for a given distro.

This is all still a work in progress, but I'd like to have at least two

ways to obtain package information:

- Call a web service API (e.g. the one on apps.fedoraproject.org/packages)

- Periodically obtain (and use) a package database to search.

  - This is for distros that don't offer a web interface to their pkgdb.

In an irc channel, you can query the bot using:

* .pkg fedora 17 kernel

* .pkg archlinux firefox

* .pkg ubuntu bash

* .pkg debian emacs

* ... etc.

# How it works

How it works internally varies greatly based on which distro is being queried.

  

    Distro/Repo

    Key (to query bot with)

    Summary

  

  

    Arch Linux*

    archlinux

    

      Queries the JSON API at

      https://www.archlinux.org/packages/search/json/?name=[...]


      * Does not currently support "AUR" packages.

    

  

# What distros are supported?

Everything listed in the above table is currently supported. However, I would

like to support the following soon, as well:

* Fedora

* EPEL

* Debian

* Ubuntu

* FreeBSD

* NetBSD

* Homebrew (OS X)

* [your favorite distro here]

I'd also eventually like to support a `.provides` command that takes a distro

argument and a file path argument, and determines which package owns the file.

Example:

```

< relrod> .provides fedora-17 /usr/bin/firefox

< pkgbot> relrod: firefox

```

# License & Hacking

Licensed under GPLv2+.

When hacking please ensure all tests pass (when they exist).

Also please ensure that your code passes PEP8 tests.

A good .git/hooks/pre-commit hook is: `find -name '*.py' | xargs pep8`

(and ensure the hook is `chmod +x`).