API documentation¶
The following documentation is based on the source code of version 7.3 of the apt-mirror-updater package. The following modules are available:
apt_mirror_updater
¶
Automated, robust apt-get
mirror selection for Debian and Ubuntu.
The main entry point for this module is the AptMirrorUpdater
class, so
if you don’t know where to start that would be a good place :-). You can also
take a look at the source code of the apt_mirror_updater.cli
module for
an example that uses the AptMirrorUpdater
class.
-
apt_mirror_updater.
MAIN_SOURCES_LIST
= '/etc/apt/sources.list'¶ The absolute pathname of the list of configured APT data sources (a string).
-
apt_mirror_updater.
SOURCES_LIST_ENCODING
= 'UTF-8'¶ The text encoding of
MAIN_SOURCES_LIST
(a string).
-
apt_mirror_updater.
MAX_MIRRORS
= 50¶ A sane default value for
AptMirrorUpdater.max_mirrors
.
-
apt_mirror_updater.
LAST_UPDATED_DEFAULT
= 2419200¶ A default, pessimistic
last_updated
value (a number).
-
class
apt_mirror_updater.
AptMirrorUpdater
(**kw)[source]¶ Python API for the apt-mirror-updater program.
-
repr_properties
= ('architecture', 'backend', 'blacklist', 'concurrency', 'context', 'distribution_codename', 'distributor_id', 'max_mirrors', 'old_releases_url', 'security_url')¶ Override the list of properties included in
repr()
output (a tuple of strings).The
PropertyManager
superclass defines a__repr__()
method that includes the values of computed properties in its output.In the case of apt-mirror-updater this behavior would trigger external command execution and (lots of) HTTP calls, sometimes with unintended side effects, namely infinite recursion.
By setting
repr_properties
to a list of “safe” properties this problematic behavior can be avoided.
-
architecture
[source]¶ The name of the Debian package architecture (a string like ‘i386’ or ‘amd64’).
The package architecture is used to detect whether Debian LTS status applies to the given system (the Debian LTS team supports a specific subset of package architectures).
Note
The
architecture
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
available_mirrors
[source]¶ A list of
CandidateMirror
objects (ordered from best to worst).On Ubuntu the mirrors will be ordered by the time since they were most recently updated. On Debian this information isn’t available and the ordering of the list should be considered arbitrary.
Note
The
available_mirrors
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
backend
[source]¶ The backend module whose name matches
distributor_id
.Raises: EnvironmentError
when no matching backend module is available.Note
The
backend
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
best_mirror
[source]¶ The URL of the first mirror in
ranked_mirrors
(a string).This is a shortcut for using
ranked_mirrors
to select the best mirror fromavailable_mirrors
, falling back to the old releases URL whenrelease_is_archived
isTrue
.Note
The
best_mirror
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
blacklist
[source]¶ A set of strings with
fnmatch
patterns (defaults to an empty set).When
available_mirrors
encounters a mirror whose URL matches one of the patterns inblacklist
the mirror will be ignored.Note
The
blacklist
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
concurrency
[source]¶ The number of concurrent HTTP connections allowed while ranking mirrors (a number).
The value of this property defaults to the value computed by
get_default_concurrency()
.Note
The
concurrency
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
context
[source]¶ An execution context created using
executor.contexts
.The value of this property defaults to a
LocalContext
object.Note
The
context
property is acustom_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
current_mirror
[source]¶ The URL of the main mirror in use in
MAIN_SOURCES_LIST
(a string).The
current_mirror
property’s value is computed usingfind_current_mirror()
.Note
The
current_mirror
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
distribution_codename
[source]¶ The distribution codename (a lowercase string like ‘trusty’ or ‘xenial’).
The value of this property defaults to the value of the
executor.contexts.AbstractContext.distribution_codename
property which is the right choice 99% of the time.Note
The
distribution_codename
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
distributor_id
[source]¶ The distributor ID (a lowercase string like ‘debian’ or ‘ubuntu’).
The default value of this property is based on the
distributor_id
property ofrelease
(which in turn is based ondistribution_codename
).Because Debian and Ubuntu code names are unambiguous this means that in practice you can provide a value for
distribution_codename
and omitdistributor_id
and everything should be fine.Note
The
distributor_id
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
max_mirrors
[source]¶ Limits the number of mirrors to rank (a number, defaults to
MAX_MIRRORS
).Note
The
max_mirrors
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
old_releases_url
[source]¶ The URL of the mirror that serves old releases for this
backend
(a string).Note
The
old_releases_url
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
ranked_mirrors
[source]¶ A list of
CandidateMirror
objects (ordered from best to worst).The value of this property is computed by concurrently testing the mirrors in
available_mirrors
for the following details:- availability (
is_available
) - connection speed (
bandwidth
) - update status (
is_updating
)
The number of mirrors to test is limited to
max_mirrors
and you can change the number of simultaneous HTTP connections allowed by settingconcurrency
.Note
The
ranked_mirrors
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.- availability (
-
release
[source]¶ A
Release
object corresponding todistributor_id
anddistribution_codename
.Note
The
release
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
release_is_eol
[source]¶ True
if the release is EOL (end of life),False
otherwise.There are three ways in which the value of this property can be computed:
When available, the first of the following EOL dates will be compared against the current date to determine whether the release is EOL:
If the
backend
module contains aget_eol_date()
function (only thedebian
module does at the time of writing) then it is called and if it returns a number, this number is the EOL date for the release.This function was added to enable apt-mirror-updater backend modules to override the default EOL dates, more specifically to respect the Debian LTS release schedule (see also issue #5).
As a fall back
validate_mirror()
is used to check whethersecurity_url
results inMirrorStatus.MAYBE_EOL
.
See also
The
release_is_archived
propertyNote
The
release_is_eol
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
release_is_archived
[source]¶ True
if the release has been archived,False
otherwise.Archived releases are no longer available on regular package mirrors, instead they’re served from a dedicated old-releases environment.
This property was added to acknowledge the discrepancy between when a release hits its EOL date and when it’s actually removed from mirrors:
- The EOL date of Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) is 2019-04-25.
- At the time of writing it is 2020-04-17 and this release still hasn’t been archived! (a year later)
For more information please refer to issue #9.
See also
The
release_is_eol
propertyNote
The
release_is_archived
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
security_url
[source]¶ The URL of the mirror that serves security updates for this
backend
(a string).Note
The
security_url
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
stable_mirror
[source]¶ A mirror URL that is stable for the given execution context (a string).
The value of this property defaults to the value of
current_mirror
, however if the current mirror can’t be determined or is deemed inappropriate byvalidate_mirror()
thenbest_mirror
will be used instead.This provides a stable mirror selection algorithm which is useful because switching mirrors causes
apt-get update
to unconditionally download all package lists and this takes a lot of time so should it be avoided when unnecessary.Note
The
stable_mirror
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
validated_mirrors
[source]¶ Dictionary of validated mirrors (used by
validate_mirror()
).Note
The
validated_mirrors
property is acached_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached. To clear the cached value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
change_mirror
(new_mirror=None, update=True)[source]¶ Change the main mirror in use in
MAIN_SOURCES_LIST
.Parameters: - new_mirror – The URL of the new mirror (a string, defaults to
best_mirror
). - update – Whether an
apt-get update
should be run after changing the mirror (a boolean, defaults toTrue
).
- new_mirror – The URL of the new mirror (a string, defaults to
-
clear_package_lists
()[source]¶ Clear the package list cache by removing the files under
/var/lib/apt/lists
.
-
create_chroot
(directory, arch=None)[source]¶ Bootstrap a basic Debian or Ubuntu system using debootstrap.
Parameters: - directory – The pathname of the target directory (a string).
- arch – The target architecture (a string or
None
).
Returns: A
ChangeRootContext
object.If directory already exists and isn’t empty then it is assumed that the chroot has already been created and debootstrap won’t be run. Before this method returns it changes
context
to the chroot.
-
dumb_update
(*args)[source]¶ Update the system’s package lists (by running
apt-get update
).Parameters: args – Command line arguments to apt-get update
(zero or more strings).The
dumb_update()
method doesn’t do any error handling or retrying, if that’s what you’re looking for then you needsmart_update()
instead.
-
generate_sources_list
(**options)[source]¶ Generate the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list
.If no mirror_url keyword argument is given then
stable_mirror
is used as a default.Please refer to the documentation of the Debian (
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.generate_sources_list()
) and Ubuntu (apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.generate_sources_list()
) backend implementations of this method for details on argument handling and the return value.
-
get_sources_list
()[source]¶ Get the contents of
MAIN_SOURCES_LIST
.Returns: A Unicode string. This code currently assumes that the
sources.list
file is encoded usingSOURCES_LIST_ENCODING
. I’m not actually sure if this is correct because I haven’t been able to find a formal specification! Feedback is welcome :-).
-
ignore_mirror
(pattern)[source]¶ Add a pattern to the mirror discovery
blacklist
.Parameters: pattern – A shell pattern (containing wild cards like ?
and*
) that is matched against the full URL of each mirror.When a pattern is added to the blacklist any previously cached values of
available_mirrors
,best_mirror
,ranked_mirrors
andstable_mirror
are cleared. This makes sure that mirrors blacklisted after mirror discovery has already run are ignored.
-
install_sources_list
(contents)[source]¶ Install a new
/etc/apt/sources.list
file.Parameters: contents – The new contents of the sources list (a Unicode string). You can generate a suitable value using the generate_sources_list()
method.
-
smart_update
(*args, **kw)[source]¶ Update the system’s package lists (switching mirrors if necessary).
Parameters: - args – Command line arguments to
apt-get update
(zero or more strings). - max_attempts – The maximum number of attempts at successfully updating the system’s package lists (an integer, defaults to 10).
- switch_mirrors –
True
if we’re allowed to switch mirrors on ‘hash sum mismatch’ errors,False
otherwise.
Raises: If updating of the package lists fails 10 consecutive times (max_attempts) an exception is raised.
While
dumb_update()
simply runsapt-get update
thesmart_update()
function works quite differently:- First the system’s package lists are updated using
dumb_update()
. If this is successful we’re done. - If the update fails we check the command’s output for the phrase ‘hash sum mismatch’. If we find this phrase we assume that the current mirror is faulty and switch to another one.
- Failing
apt-get update
runs are retried up to max_attempts.
- args – Command line arguments to
-
validate_mirror
(mirror_url)[source]¶ Make sure a mirror serves
distribution_codename
.Parameters: mirror_url – The base URL of the mirror (a string). Returns: One of the values in the MirrorStatus
enumeration.This method assumes that
old_releases_url
is always valid.
-
-
class
apt_mirror_updater.
CandidateMirror
(**kw)[source]¶ A candidate mirror groups a mirror URL with its availability and performance metrics.
-
bandwidth
[source]¶ The bytes per second achieved while fetching
release_gpg_url
(a number orNone
).The value of this property is computed based on the values of
release_gpg_contents
andrelease_gpg_latency
.Note
The
bandwidth
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
archive_update_in_progress_url
[source]¶ The URL of the file whose existence indicates that the mirror is being updated (a string).
The value of this property is computed based on the value of
mirror_url
.Note
The
archive_update_in_progress_url
property is alazy_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached.
-
mirror_url
[source]¶ The base URL of the mirror (a string).
Note
The
mirror_url
property is akey_property
. You are required to provide a value for this property by calling the constructor of the class that defines the property with a keyword argument named mirror_url (unless a custom constructor is defined, in this case please refer to the documentation of that constructor). Once this property has been assigned a value you are not allowed to assign a new value to the property.
-
is_available
[source]¶ True
ifrelease_gpg_contents
contains the expected header,False
otherwise.The value of this property is computed by checking whether
release_gpg_contents
contains the expectedBEGIN PGP SIGNATURE
header. This may seem like a rather obscure way of validating a mirror, but it was specifically chosen to detect all sorts of ways in which mirrors can be broken:- Webservers with a broken configuration that return an error page for all URLs.
- Mirrors whose domain name registration has expired, where the domain is now being squatted and returns HTTP 200 OK responses for all URLs (whether they “exist” or not).
Note
The
is_available
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
is_updating
[source]¶ True
if the mirror is being updated,False
otherwise.Note
The
is_updating
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
last_updated
[source]¶ The time in seconds since the most recent mirror update (a number or
None
).Note
The
last_updated
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
release_gpg_contents
[source]¶ The contents downloaded from
release_gpg_url
(a string orNone
).By downloading the file available at
release_gpg_url
and settingrelease_gpg_contents
andrelease_gpg_latency
you enable thebandwidth
andis_available
properties to be computed.Note
The
release_gpg_contents
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
release_gpg_latency
[source]¶ The time it took to download
release_gpg_url
(a number orNone
).By downloading the file available at
release_gpg_url
and settingrelease_gpg_contents
andrelease_gpg_latency
you enable thebandwidth
andis_available
properties to be computed.Note
The
release_gpg_latency
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
release_gpg_url
[source]¶ The URL of the
Release.gpg
file that will be used to test the mirror (a string orNone
).The value of this property is based on
mirror_url
and thedistribution_codename
property of theupdater
object.Note
The
release_gpg_url
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
sort_key
[source]¶ A tuple that can be used to sort the mirror by its availability/performance metrics.
The tuple created by this property contains four numbers in the following order:
- The number 1 when
is_available
isTrue
or the number 0 whenis_available
isFalse
(because most importantly a mirror must be available). - The number 0 when
is_updating
isTrue
or the number 1 whenis_updating
isFalse
(because being updated at this very moment is bad). - The negated value of
last_updated
(because the lowerlast_updated
is, the better). Iflast_updated
isNone
thenLAST_UPDATED_DEFAULT
is used instead. - The value of
bandwidth
(because the higherbandwidth
is, the better).
By sorting
CandidateMirror
objects on these tuples in ascending order, the last mirror in the sorted results will be the “most suitable mirror” (given the available information).Note
The
sort_key
property is amutable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.- The number 1 when
-
updater
[source]¶ A reference to the
AptMirrorUpdater
object that created the candidate.Note
The
updater
property is acustom_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax. To reset it to its default (computed) value you can usedel
ordelattr()
.
-
-
class
apt_mirror_updater.
MirrorStatus
[source]¶ Enumeration for mirror statuses determined by
AptMirrorUpdater.validate_mirror()
.-
AVAILABLE
= <EnumValue: MirrorStatus.AVAILABLE [value=1]>¶ The mirror is accepting connections and serving the expected content.
-
MAYBE_EOL
= <EnumValue: MirrorStatus.MAYBE_EOL [value=2]>¶ The mirror is serving HTTP 404 “Not Found” responses instead of the expected content.
-
UNAVAILABLE
= <EnumValue: MirrorStatus.UNAVAILABLE [value=3]>¶ The mirror is not accepting connections or not serving the expected content.
-
-
apt_mirror_updater.
find_current_mirror
(sources_list)[source]¶ Find the URL of the main mirror that is currently in use by
apt-get
.Parameters: sources_list – The contents of apt’s package resource list, e.g. the contents of MAIN_SOURCES_LIST
(a string).Returns: The URL of the main mirror in use (a string). Raises: If the main mirror can’t be determined EnvironmentError
is raised.The main mirror is determined by looking for the first
deb
ordeb-src
directive in apt’s package resource list whose URL uses the HTTP or FTP scheme and whose components containmain
.
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian
¶
Discovery of Debian package archive mirrors.
Here are references to some of the material that I’ve needed to consult while working on this module:
- Notes about sources.list on the Debian wiki
- The Debian backports webpages
- Documentation about the “proposed-updates” mechanism
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
LTS_ARCHITECTURES
= ('i386', 'amd64', 'armel', 'armhf')¶ The names of the architectures supported by the Debian LTS team (a tuple of strings).
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
LTS_RELEASES
= {'jessie': 1593468000, 'stretch': 1656540000}¶ A dictionary with Debian LTS releases and their EOL dates.
This is needed because distro-info-data doesn’t contain information about Debian LTS releases but nevertheless
archive.debian.org
doesn’t adopt a release until the LTS status expires (this was originally reported in issue #5).
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
MIRRORS_URL
= 'https://www.debian.org/mirror/list'¶ The URL of the HTML page listing all primary Debian mirrors (a string).
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
SECURITY_URL
= 'http://security.debian.org/'¶ The base URL of the Debian mirror with security updates (a string).
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
OLD_RELEASES_URL
= 'http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/'¶ The URL where EOL (end of life) Debian releases are hosted (a string).
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
DEFAULT_SUITES
= ('release', 'security', 'updates')¶ A tuple of strings with the Debian suites that are enabled by default.
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
VALID_COMPONENTS
= ('main', 'contrib', 'non-free')¶ A tuple of strings with the names of the components available in the Debian package repositories.
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
VALID_SUITES
= ('release', 'security', 'updates', 'backports', 'proposed-updates')¶ A tuple of strings with the names of the suites available in the Debian package repositories.
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
discover_mirrors
()[source]¶ Discover available Debian mirrors by querying
MIRRORS_URL
.Returns: A set of CandidateMirror
objects that have theirmirror_url
property set.Raises: If no mirrors are discovered an exception is raised. An example run:
>>> from apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian import discover_mirrors >>> from pprint import pprint >>> pprint(discover_mirrors()) set([CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.bg.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.by.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/'), ...])
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
generate_sources_list
(mirror_url, codename, suites=('release', 'security', 'updates'), components=('main', 'contrib', 'non-free'), enable_sources=False)[source]¶ Generate the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list
for a Debian system.Parameters: - mirror_url – The base URL of the mirror (a string).
- codename – The codename of a Debian release (a string like ‘wheezy’ or ‘jessie’) or a Debian release class (a string like ‘stable’, ‘testing’, etc).
- suites – An iterable of strings (defaults to
DEFAULT_SUITES
, refer toVALID_SUITES
for details). - components – An iterable of strings (refer to
VALID_COMPONENTS
for details). - enable_sources –
True
to includedeb-src
entries,False
to omit them.
Returns: The suggested contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list
(a string).
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.debian.
get_eol_date
(updater)[source]¶ Override the EOL date for Debian LTS releases.
Parameters: updater – The AptMirrorUpdater
object.Returns: The overridden EOL date (a number) or None
.
apt_mirror_updater.backends.elementary
¶
Support for Elementary OS package archive mirror selection.
Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu LTS releases and as such this module is a very
thin wrapper for the apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu
module.
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.elementary.
OLD_RELEASES_URL
= 'http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/'¶ Alias for
apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.OLD_RELEASES_URL
.
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.elementary.
SECURITY_URL
= 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu'¶
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.elementary.
discover_mirrors
()[source]¶ Alias for
apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.discover_mirrors()
.
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.elementary.
generate_sources_list
(mirror_url, codename, suites=('release', 'updates', 'backports', 'security'), components=('main', 'restricted', 'universe', 'multiverse'), enable_sources=False)[source]¶ Alias for
apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.generate_sources_list()
.
-
apt_mirror_updater.backends.elementary.
KNOWN_RELEASES
= [Release(codename='Jupiter', distributor_id='elementary', series='jupiter'), Release(codename='Luna', distributor_id='elementary', series='luna'), Release(codename='Freya', distributor_id='elementary', series='freya'), Release(codename='Loki', distributor_id='elementary', series='loki'), Release(codename='Juno', distributor_id='elementary', series='juno'), Release(codename='Hera', distributor_id='elementary', series='hera')]¶ List of
Release
objects corresponding to known elementary OS releases based on the summary table on the following web page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_OS#Summary_table
apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu
¶
Discovery of Ubuntu package archive mirrors.
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
MIRRORS_URL
= 'https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors'¶ The URL of the HTML page listing official Ubuntu mirrors (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
MIRROR_SELECTION_URL
= 'http://mirrors.ubuntu.com/mirrors.txt'¶ The URL of a plain text listing of “geographically suitable” mirror URLs (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
OLD_RELEASES_URL
= 'http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/'¶ The URL where EOL (end of life) Ubuntu releases are hosted (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
SECURITY_URL
= 'http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu'¶ The URL where Ubuntu security updates are hosted (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
DEFAULT_SUITES
= ('release', 'updates', 'backports', 'security')¶ A tuple of strings with the Ubuntu suites that are enabled by default.
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
VALID_COMPONENTS
= ('main', 'restricted', 'universe', 'multiverse')¶ A tuple of strings with the names of the components available in the Ubuntu package repositories.
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
VALID_SUITES
= ('release', 'security', 'updates', 'backports', 'proposed')¶ A tuple of strings with the names of the suites available in the Ubuntu package repositories.
The actual name of the ‘release’ suite is the codename of the relevant Ubuntu release, while the names of the other suites are formed by concatenating the codename with the suite name (separated by a dash).
As an example to make things more concrete, Ubuntu 16.04 has the following five suites available:
xenial
(this is the release suite),xenial-security
,xenial-updates
,xenial-backports
andxenial-proposed
.
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
MIRROR_STATUSES
= (('Up to date', 0), ('One hour behind', 3600), ('Two hours behind', 7200), ('Four hours behind', 14400), ('Six hours behind', 21600), ('One day behind', 86400), ('Two days behind', 172800), ('One week behind', 604800), ('Unknown', None))¶ A tuple of tuples with Launchpad mirror statuses. Each tuple consists of two values:
- The human readable mirror latency (a string) as used on
MIRRORS_URL
. - The mirror latency expressed in seconds (a number).
The ‘known statuses’ used by Launchpad were checked as follows:
$ curl -s https://launchpad.net/+icing/rev18391/combo.css | tr '{},.' '\n' | grep distromirrorstatus distromirrorstatusUP distromirrorstatusONEHOURBEHIND distromirrorstatusTWOHOURSBEHIND distromirrorstatusFOURHOURSBEHIND distromirrorstatusSIXHOURSBEHIND distromirrorstatusONEDAYBEHIND distromirrorstatusTWODAYSBEHIND distromirrorstatusONEWEEKBEHIND distromirrorstatusUNKNOWN
- The human readable mirror latency (a string) as used on
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
discover_mirrors
()[source]¶ Discover available Ubuntu mirrors.
Returns: A set of CandidateMirror
objects that have theirmirror_url
property set and may have thelast_updated
property set.Raises: If no mirrors are discovered an exception is raised. This queries
MIRRORS_URL
andMIRROR_SELECTION_URL
to discover available Ubuntu mirrors. Here’s an example run:>>> from apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu import discover_mirrors >>> from pprint import pprint >>> pprint(discover_mirrors()) set([CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/ubuntu/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/ubuntu/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://ftp.tudelft.nl/archive.ubuntu.com/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://mirror.1000mbps.com/ubuntu/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://mirror.amsiohosting.net/archive.ubuntu.com/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://mirror.i3d.net/pub/ubuntu/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://mirror.nforce.com/pub/linux/ubuntu/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://mirror.nl.leaseweb.net/ubuntu/'), CandidateMirror(mirror_url='http://mirror.transip.net/ubuntu/ubuntu/'), ...])
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
discover_mirror_selection
()[source]¶ Discover “geographically suitable” Ubuntu mirrors.
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apt_mirror_updater.backends.ubuntu.
generate_sources_list
(mirror_url, codename, suites=('release', 'updates', 'backports', 'security'), components=('main', 'restricted', 'universe', 'multiverse'), enable_sources=False)[source]¶ Generate the contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list
for an Ubuntu system.Parameters: - mirror_url – The base URL of the mirror (a string).
- codename – The codename of the Ubuntu release (a string like ‘trusty’ or ‘xenial’).
- suites – An iterable of strings (defaults to
DEFAULT_SUITES
, refer toVALID_SUITES
for details). - components – An iterable of strings (refer to
VALID_COMPONENTS
for details). - enable_sources –
True
to includedeb-src
entries,False
to omit them.
Returns: The suggested contents of
/etc/apt/sources.list
(a string).
apt_mirror_updater.cli
¶
Usage: apt-mirror-updater [OPTIONS]
The apt-mirror-updater program automates robust apt-get mirror selection for Debian and Ubuntu by enabling discovery of available mirrors, ranking of available mirrors, automatic switching between mirrors and robust package list updating.
Supported options:
Option | Description |
---|---|
-r , --remote-host=SSH_ALIAS |
Operate on a remote system instead of the local system. The SSH_ALIAS
argument gives the SSH alias of the remote host. It is assumed that the
remote account has root privileges or password-less sudo access. |
-f , --find-current-mirror |
Determine the main mirror that is currently configured in /etc/apt/sources.list and report its URL on standard output. |
-b , --find-best-mirror |
Discover available mirrors, rank them, select the best one and report its URL on standard output. |
-l , --list-mirrors |
List available (ranked) mirrors on the terminal in a human readable format. |
-c , --change-mirror=MIRROR_URL |
Update /etc/apt/sources.list to use the given MIRROR_URL . |
-a , --auto-change-mirror |
Discover available mirrors, rank the mirrors by connection speed and update status and update /etc/apt/sources.list to use the best available mirror. |
-u , --update , --update-package-lists |
Update the package lists using “apt-get update”, retrying on failure and automatically switch to a different mirror when it looks like the current mirror is being updated. |
-x , --exclude=PATTERN |
Add a pattern to the mirror selection blacklist. PATTERN is expected to be
a shell pattern (containing wild cards like “?” and “*”) that is matched
against the full URL of each mirror. |
-m , --max=COUNT |
Don’t query more than Because Ubuntu mirror discovery can report more than 300 mirrors it’s useful to limit the number of mirrors that are queried, otherwise the ranking of mirrors will take a long time (because over 300 connections need to be established). |
-v , --verbose |
Increase logging verbosity (can be repeated). |
-q , --quiet |
Decrease logging verbosity (can be repeated). |
-h , --help |
Show this message and exit. |
apt_mirror_updater.http
¶
Simple, robust and concurrent HTTP requests (designed for one very narrow use case).
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apt_mirror_updater.http.
fetch_url
(url, timeout=10, retry=False, max_attempts=3)[source]¶ Fetch a URL, optionally retrying on failure.
Parameters: - url – The URL to fetch (a string).
- timeout – The maximum time in seconds that’s allowed to pass before the request is aborted (a number, defaults to 10 seconds).
- retry – Whether to retry on failure (defaults to
False
). - max_attempts – The maximum number of attempts when retrying is enabled (an integer, defaults to three).
Returns: The response body (a byte string).
Raises: Any of the following exceptions can be raised:
NotFoundError
when the URL returns a 404 status code.InvalidResponseError
when the URL returns a status code that isn’t 200.- stopit.TimeoutException when the request takes longer than timeout seconds (refer to the linked documentation for details).
- Any exception raised by Python’s standard library in the last attempt (assuming all attempts raise an exception).
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apt_mirror_updater.http.
fetch_concurrent
(urls, concurrency=None)[source]¶ Fetch the given URLs concurrently using
multiprocessing
.Parameters: - urls – An iterable of URLs (strings).
- concurrency – Override the concurrency (an integer, defaults to the
value computed by
get_default_concurrency()
).
Returns: A list of tuples like those returned by
fetch_worker()
.
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apt_mirror_updater.http.
get_default_concurrency
()[source]¶ Get the default concurrency for
fetch_concurrent()
.Returns: A positive integer number.
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apt_mirror_updater.http.
fetch_worker
(url)[source]¶ Fetch the given URL for
fetch_concurrent()
.Parameters: url – The URL to fetch (a string). Returns: A tuple of three values: - The URL that was fetched (a string).
- The data that was fetched (a string or
None
). - The number of seconds it took to fetch the URL (a number).
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exception
apt_mirror_updater.http.
InvalidResponseError
[source]¶ Raised by
fetch_url()
when a URL returns a status code that isn’t 200.
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exception
apt_mirror_updater.http.
NotFoundError
[source]¶ Raised by
fetch_url()
when a URL returns a 404 status code.
apt_mirror_updater.releases
¶
Easy to use metadata on Debian and Ubuntu releases.
This module started out with the purpose of reliable end of life (EOL)
detection for Debian and Ubuntu releases based on data provided by the
distro-info-data package. Since then the need arose to access more of the
available metadata and so the eol
module became the releases
module.
Debian and Ubuntu releases have an EOL date that marks the end of support for each release. At that date the release stops receiving further (security) updates and some time after package mirrors stop serving the release.
The distro-info-data package contains CSV files with metadata about Debian and Ubuntu releases. This module parses those CSV files to make this metadata available in Python. This enables apt-mirror-updater to make an informed decision about the following questions:
- Is a given Debian or Ubuntu release expected to be available on mirrors or will it only be available in the archive of old releases?
- Is the signing key of a given Ubuntu release expected to be included in the
main keyring (
UBUNTU_KEYRING_CURRENT
) or should the keyring with removed keys (UBUNTU_KEYRING_REMOVED
) be used?
To make it possible to run apt-mirror-updater without direct access to the CSV files, a copy of the relevant information has been embedded in the source code.
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
DISTRO_INFO_DIRECTORY
= '/usr/share/distro-info'¶ The pathname of the directory with CSV files containing release metadata (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
DEBIAN_KEYRING_CURRENT
= '/usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.gpg'¶ The pathname of the main Debian keyring file (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
UBUNTU_KEYRING_CURRENT
= '/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg'¶ The pathname of the main Ubuntu keyring file (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
UBUNTU_KEYRING_REMOVED
= '/usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-removed-keys.gpg'¶ The pathname of the Ubuntu keyring file with removed keys (a string).
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
coerce_release
(value)[source]¶ Try to coerce the given value to a Debian or Ubuntu release.
Parameters: value – The value to coerce (a number, a string or a Release
object).Returns: A Release
object.Raises: ValueError
when the given value cannot be coerced to a known release.The following values can be coerced:
- Numbers and numbers formatted as strings match
Release.version
. - Strings match
Release.codename
(case insensitive).
Warning
Don’t use floating point numbers like 10.04 because their actual value will be something like 10.039999999999999147 which won’t match the intended release.
- Numbers and numbers formatted as strings match
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
discover_releases
()[source]¶ Discover known Debian, Elementary OS and Ubuntu releases.
Returns: A list of discovered Release
objects sorted bydistributor_id
andversion
.The first time this function is called it will try to parse the CSV files in
/usr/share/distro-info
usingparse_csv_file()
and merge any releases it finds with the releases embedded into the source code of this module and the releases defined byapt_mirror_updater.backends.elementary.KNOWN_RELEASES
. The result is cached and returned each time the function is called. It’s not a problem if the/usr/share/distro-info
directory doesn’t exist or doesn’t contain any*.csv
files (it won’t cause a warning or error). Of course in this case only the embedded releases will be returned.
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
is_version_string
(value)[source]¶ Check whether the given value is a string containing a positive number.
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
parse_csv_file
(filename)[source]¶ Parse a CSV file in the format of the
/usr/share/distro-info/*.csv
files.Parameters: filename – The pathname of the CSV file (a string). Returns: A generator of Release
objects.
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
parse_date
(value)[source]¶ Convert a
YYYY-MM-DD
string to adatetime.date
object.
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
parse_version
(value)[source]¶ Convert a version string to a
Decimal
number.
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apt_mirror_updater.releases.
ubuntu_keyring_updated
()[source]¶ Detect update #1363482 to the
ubuntu-keyring
package.Returns: True
when version2016.10.27
or newer is installed,False
when an older version is installed.This function checks if the changes discussed in Launchpad bug #1363482 apply to the current system using the
dpkg-query --show
anddpkg --compare-versions
commands. For more details refer to issue #8.
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class
apt_mirror_updater.releases.
Release
(**kw)[source]¶ Data class for metadata on Debian, Elementary OS and Ubuntu releases.
-
codename
[source]¶ The long version of
series
(a string).Note
The
codename
property is akey_property
. You are required to provide a value for this property by calling the constructor of the class that defines the property with a keyword argument named codename (unless a custom constructor is defined, in this case please refer to the documentation of that constructor). Once this property has been assigned a value you are not allowed to assign a new value to the property.
-
created_date
[source]¶ The date on which the release was created (a
date
object).Note
The
created_date
property is arequired_property
. You are required to provide a value for this property by calling the constructor of the class that defines the property with a keyword argument named created_date (unless a custom constructor is defined, in this case please refer to the documentation of that constructor). You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
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distributor_id
[source]¶ The name of the distributor (one of the strings
debian
,elementary
orubuntu
).Note
The
distributor_id
property is akey_property
. You are required to provide a value for this property by calling the constructor of the class that defines the property with a keyword argument named distributor_id (unless a custom constructor is defined, in this case please refer to the documentation of that constructor). Once this property has been assigned a value you are not allowed to assign a new value to the property.
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eol_date
[source]¶ The date on which the desktop release stops being supported (a
date
object).Note
The
eol_date
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
extended_eol_date
[source]¶ The date on which the server release stops being supported (a
date
object).Note
The
extended_eol_date
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
is_eol
[source]¶ Whether the release has reached its end-of-life date (a boolean or
None
).Note
The
is_eol
property is alazy_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached.
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is_lts
[source]¶ Whether a release is a long term support release (a boolean).
Note
The
is_lts
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
release_date
[source]¶ The date on which the release was published (a
date
object).Note
The
release_date
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
series
[source]¶ The short version of
codename
(a string).Note
The
series
property is akey_property
. You are required to provide a value for this property by calling the constructor of the class that defines the property with a keyword argument named series (unless a custom constructor is defined, in this case please refer to the documentation of that constructor). Once this property has been assigned a value you are not allowed to assign a new value to the property.
-
upstream_distributor_id
[source]¶ The upstream distributor ID (a string, defaults to
distributor_id
).Note
The
upstream_distributor_id
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
upstream_series
[source]¶ The upstream series (a string, defaults to
series
).Note
The
upstream_series
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
upstream_version
[source]¶ The upstream version (a string, defaults to
version
).Note
The
upstream_version
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
version
[source]¶ The version number of the release (a
Decimal
number).This property has a
Decimal
value to enable proper sorting based on numeric comparison.Note
The
version
property is awritable_property
. You can change the value of this property using normal attribute assignment syntax.
-
keyring_file
[source]¶ The pathname of the keyring with signing keys for this release (a string).
This property exists to work around a bug in
debootstrap
which may use the wrong keyring to create Ubuntu chroots, for more details refer toubuntu_keyring_updated()
.Note
The
keyring_file
property is alazy_property
. This property’s value is computed once (the first time it is accessed) and the result is cached.
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