I'm trying to do some package manipulation (a la dpkg) and while I can just popen or subprocess.call I'd rather do things the python way if possible.
Unfortunately I've been unable to find a python module to do the trick.
I've seen reference to python-deb but it appears to be defunct. python-apt might seem like a potential solution, but AFAICT it cannot handle individual .deb files.
Anyone know of a good dpkg python solution?
Actually, python-apt allows you to work with these files directly. Here's an example:
from apt.debfile import DebPackage
from pprint import pprint
pkg = DebPackage('/tmp/wajig_2.7_all.deb')
pprint(pkg.filelist)
Output:
$ ./script.py
['./',
'etc/',
'etc/bash_completion.d/',
...
'usr/bin/',
'usr/bin/wajig']
It's not as complete as I would like sadly, but it has a bunch of functionality.