Crate libalpm

A library to access the functionality of libalpm (the library used by pacman).

Getting started

The main struct here is Alpm. It is responsible for wrapping an alpm database and filesystem, and providing functionality for thtat alpm instance. For example...

use libalpm::Alpm;
use libalpm::util;

// get the architecture (e.g. x86_64).
let arch = util::uname().machine().to_owned();

let alpm = Alpm::new("/", "/var/lib/pacman"); // default locations on arch linux
alpm

Modules

util	Some helper functions not directly related to the API

Structs

Alpm	A handle on an alpm instance
Backup	A backup
Caps	This version of libalpm's capabilities
Db	A database of packages. This is only ever available as a reference
Dependency	A package's dependency
File	A file in a package
FileList	A list of files in a package
Group	A group of related pacakges in a database
LogLevels	The possible log-levels
Options	The options that can be set in the pacman conf file.
Package	An owning version of Package
PackageVersion	A package version
RepoOptions	Options for a repository.
SigLevel	PGP signature verification options
Transaction	A transaction of package operations
TransactionFlags
ValidationMethod	The methods used to validate a package when it was downloaded.

Enums

DownloadResult	The result of a download
Error	An enum of possible errors in libalpm
Event	An event emitted from libalpm
LogLevel	The highest log level marked true
PackageFrom	Where a package came from
PackageRef	A package in libalpm that can only be held by reference.
Reason	Why a package was installed, either because it was explicitally requested, or required as a dependency.
Validation	Whether validation was performed.
VersionConstraintType	Types of version constraint to be applied to a package's dependency.

Functions

capabilities	Get the capabilities of the attached libalpm
version	Get the version of the attached libalpm

Type Definitions

AlpmResult

The ubiquitous crate result type.