2013-12-30
XBPS API example: list pkgs in a repo (emulating pacman -Sl repo)
In this post I’ll show another simple example of the XBPS API that allows
you to list all packages in a repository (local or remote); the output
emulates the pacman -Sl repo
command from the Archlinux distribution:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <xbps.h>
static int repo_foreach(struct xbps_repo *repo, void *arg, bool *done)
{
xbps_dictionary_t pkgd;
xbps_object_t obj;
xbps_object_iterator_t iter;
const char *pkgver;
/* ignore empty repos */
if (repo->idx == NULL)
return 0;
/* Iterate over the repository index dictionary */
iter = xbps_dictionary_iterator(repo->idx);
while ((obj = xbps_object_iterator_next(iter)) != NULL) {
pkgd = xbps_dictionary_get_keysym(repo->idx, obj);
xbps_dictionary_get_cstring_nocopy(pkgd, "pkgver", &pkgver);
printf("%s %s", repo->uri, pkgver);
if (xbps_pkgdb_get_pkg(repo->xhp, pkgver))
printf(" [installed]");
printf("\n");
}
xbps_object_iterator_release(iter);
return 0;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct xbps_handle xh;
int rv;
if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stdout, "usage: %s repourl\n", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
memset(&xh, 0, sizeof(xh));
/*
* We specify an unexistent conf file to make sure that only specified repo
* is being used.
*/
xh.conffile = "dr_pwwker_is_watching_you";
/*
* And then we add the specified repo to the repositories array.
*/
xh.repositories = xbps_array_create();
xbps_array_add_cstring_nocopy(xh.repositories, argv[1]);
if ((rv = xbps_init(&xh)) != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "failed to initialize libxbps: %s\n", strerror(rv));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
rv = xbps_rpool_foreach(&xh, repo_foreach, NULL);
exit(rv);
}
To compile the example you’ll have to install some additional packages:
# xbps-install -Sy gcc libxbps-devel pkg-config
And then to compile the C source code:
$ cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs libxbps` list_pkgs_in_repo.c
You can then specify a repository url to list all stored packages in this repository:
$ ./a.out http://xbps.nopcode.org/repos/current
http://xbps.nopcode.org/repos/current blah-1.0_1 [installed]
http://xbps.nopcode.org/repos/current foo-1.0_1
...
Please check out /usr/include/xbps.h
to know more about the XBPS API.