meta_package_manager.managers.apk module

class meta_package_manager.managers.apk.APK[source]

Bases: PackageManager

Alpine Package Keeper (apk) used by Alpine Linux.

Documentation: Alpine Package Keeper.

Note

installed and outdated both parse the list applet, so the version floor is 2.10.0: the release that introduced it. Progress output is disabled on every call to keep the parsed lines stable.

Caution

outdated reads the local repository cache rather than the remote, so sync must run first for an accurate upgrade list.

Initialize cli_errors list.

name: str = 'Alpine apk'

Return package manager’s common name.

Default value is based on class name.

homepage_url: str | None = 'https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools'

Home page of the project, only used in documentation for reference.

Slug of the brand mark standing for this manager in the documentation.

Names an SVG vendored under docs/assets/managers/, whose provenance and license are recorded in docs/assets/managers/logos.yaml. Inlined at the top of the manager’s page by meta_package_manager._docs; a manager leaving it unset keeps the page’s default package glyph.

Several managers legitimately share one slug, either because they wrap the same upstream (brew and cask) or because the tool has no mark of its own and its ecosystem’s stands in (apt under Debian’s swirl, cargo under Rust’s gear). Documentation-only, like homepage_url: no CLI output reads it.

platforms: frozenset[Platform] | Group | Platform | Iterable[Platform | Group] = frozenset({Platform(id='almalinux', name='AlmaLinux'), Platform(id='alpine', name='Alpine Linux'), Platform(id='altlinux', name='ALT Linux'), Platform(id='amzn', name='Amazon Linux'), Platform(id='android', name='Android'), Platform(id='arch', name='Arch Linux'), Platform(id='buildroot', name='Buildroot'), Platform(id='cachyos', name='CachyOS'), Platform(id='centos', name='CentOS'), Platform(id='chromeos', name='ChromeOS'), Platform(id='clearlinux', name='Clear Linux OS'), Platform(id='cloudlinux', name='CloudLinux OS'), Platform(id='debian', name='Debian'), Platform(id='endeavouros', name='EndeavourOS'), Platform(id='exherbo', name='Exherbo Linux'), Platform(id='fedora', name='Fedora'), Platform(id='generic_linux', name='Generic Linux'), Platform(id='gentoo', name='Gentoo Linux'), Platform(id='guix', name='Guix System'), Platform(id='ibm_powerkvm', name='IBM PowerKVM'), Platform(id='kali', name='Kali Linux'), Platform(id='kvmibm', name='KVM for IBM z Systems'), Platform(id='linuxmint', name='Linux Mint'), Platform(id='mageia', name='Mageia'), Platform(id='mandriva', name='Mandriva Linux'), Platform(id='manjaro', name='Manjaro Linux'), Platform(id='nixos', name='NixOS'), Platform(id='nobara', name='Nobara'), Platform(id='opensuse', name='openSUSE'), Platform(id='openwrt', name='OpenWrt'), Platform(id='oracle', name='Oracle Linux'), Platform(id='parallels', name='Parallels'), Platform(id='pidora', name='Pidora'), Platform(id='pikaos', name='PikaOS'), Platform(id='raspbian', name='Raspbian'), Platform(id='rhel', name='RedHat Enterprise Linux'), Platform(id='rocky', name='Rocky Linux'), Platform(id='scientific', name='Scientific Linux'), Platform(id='slackware', name='Slackware'), Platform(id='sles', name='SUSE Linux Enterprise Server'), Platform(id='slitaz', name='SliTaz GNU/Linux'), Platform(id='sourcemage', name='Source Mage GNU/Linux'), Platform(id='tuxedo', name='Tuxedo OS'), Platform(id='ubuntu', name='Ubuntu'), Platform(id='ultramarine', name='Ultramarine'), Platform(id='void', name='Void Linux'), Platform(id='wsl1', name='Windows Subsystem for Linux v1'), Platform(id='wsl2', name='Windows Subsystem for Linux v2'), Platform(id='xenserver', name='XenServer')})

List of platforms supported by the manager.

Allows for a mishmash of platforms and groups of platforms. Will be normalized into a frozenset of Platform instances at instantiation.

default_sudo: bool = True

Built-in escalation default, used when sudo is None.

False on the base: most managers install into user-writable trees and never need root. The system package managers whose privileged operations require root (apt, dnf, pacman, zypper, …) set this to True so their build_cli(..., sudo=True) operations escalate out of the box, while staying switchable off through sudo (--no-sudo or config) for rootless setups.

requirement: str | None = '>=2.10.0'

The list applet, used by installed() and outdated(), was introduced in version 2.10.0.

pre_args: tuple[str, ...] = ('--no-progress',)

Suppress progress indicators so log lines are stable when parsing.

Source: apk(8) global options.

version_regexes: tuple[str, ...] = ('apk-tools\\s+(?P<version>[^\\s,]+)',)
$ apk --version
apk-tools 2.14.10, compiled for x86_64.
property installed: Iterator[Package]

Fetch installed packages.

$ apk --no-progress list --installed
acl-2.2.53-r0 x86_64 {acl} (LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later) [installed]
alpine-baselayout-3.4.3-r1 x86_64 {alpine-baselayout} (GPL-2.0-only) [installed]
apk-tools-2.14.0-r5 x86_64 {apk-tools} (GPL-2.0-only) [installed]
busybox-1.36.1-r5 x86_64 {busybox} (GPL-2.0-only) [installed]
python3-3.11.6-r0 x86_64 {python3} (PSF-2.0) [installed]
property outdated: Iterator[Package]

Fetch outdated packages.

Caution

Reads from the local repository cache. Run sync() first to refresh the index.

$ apk --no-progress list --upgradable
acl-2.3.1-r0 x86_64 {acl} (LGPL-2.1-or-later) [upgradable from: acl-2.2.53-r0]
python3-3.11.7-r0 x86_64 {python3} (PSF-2.0) [upgradable from: python3-3.11.6-r0]
search(query, extended, exact)[source]

Fetch matching packages.

Caution

apk search matches package names with case-insensitive substring globbing. Exact matching is not supported and is handled by meta_package_manager.manager.PackageManager.refiltered_search(). Extended search adds the --description flag so the query is also matched against package descriptions.

$ apk --no-progress search --verbose firefox
firefox-120.0-r0
firefox-esr-115.5.0-r0
firefox-langpack-de-120.0-r0
$ apk --no-progress search --verbose --description ntp
chrony-4.4-r1
ntp-4.2.8_p17-r0
openntpd-6.8_p1-r1
Return type:

Iterator[Package]

install(package_id, version=None)[source]

Install one package.

$ sudo apk --no-progress add firefox
Return type:

str

cli_names: tuple[str, ...] = ('apk',)

List of CLI names the package manager is known as.

This list of recognized CLI names is ordered by priority. That way we can influence the search of the right binary.

..hint::

This was helpful in the case of the Python transition from 2.x to 3.x, where multiple versions of the same executable were named python or python3.

By default, this property’s value is derived from the manager’s ID (see the MetaPackageManager.__init__ method above).

id: str = 'apk'

Package manager’s ID.

Derived by defaults from the lower-cased class name in which underscores _ are replaced by dashes -.

This ID must be unique among all package manager definitions and lower-case, as they’re used as feature flags for the mpm CLI.

upgrade_all_cli()[source]

Generates the CLI to upgrade all packages.

$ sudo apk --no-progress upgrade
Return type:

tuple[str, ...]

virtual: bool = False

Should we expose the package manager to the user?

Virtual package manager are just skeleton classes used to factorize code among managers of the same family.

upgrade_one_cli(package_id, version=None)[source]

Generates the CLI to upgrade one package.

$ sudo apk --no-progress upgrade firefox
Return type:

tuple[str, ...]

remove(package_id)[source]

Remove one package.

$ sudo apk --no-progress del firefox
Return type:

str

sync()[source]

Synchronize the local package index from remote repositories.

$ sudo apk --no-progress update
Return type:

None

cleanup_cache()[source]

Drop the local package cache.

$ sudo apk --no-progress cache clean
Return type:

None