ArchLinuxArchive

Download and install packages from the Arch Linux Archive (previously the Arch Rollback Machine)

Requirements

sudo pacman -S python-beautifulsoup4 python-requests

Usage

./pyALA.py package_name
    [-d <download directory>]       Download packages to specified directory (Defaults to current working dir)
    [--log]                         Parse pacman.log to show package history
    [--sig]                         Download .sig files from the archive
    
./pyALA.py -Syu <n>                 Show the last n full system updates

./pyALA.py --help

Miscellaneous

Defaults to the following values:

arch = 'x86_64'
ala = 'http://seblu.net/a/archive/packages/'
pacman_log = '/var/log/pacman.log'
pacman_cache_dir = '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/'