piu files

[abitrolly]

What do you think about adding piu files for listing files provided by a package?

For dnf based installs it would be dnf repoquery -l with optional -C flag to avoid cache update.

[beyondmeh]

That seems like a great idea to add. I know pacman has similar functionality as well as apt. I'd be happy to accept a pull request, even if it's just for dnf.

Otherwise, I'll work on adding support in my free time

[beyondmeh]

TODO

• List files provided by a package that are not already installed
• Then, handle installed packages too (this part should be easier than the first)
  • can probably be simplified just to query not installed, unless command has a dependency such as pre-downloading a package (e.g.: apt)
• Finally, provide a wrapper to handle the above two cases automatically
  • Like note above, this will probably be package manager specific. dnf doesn't need this

Research PKG MGR Invocations

• apt
  • Not Installed: Somewhat convoluted if trying to avoid dependencies like apt-file:
    • sudo apt-get install --download-only $1 - download package
    • research needed to see if above provides the .deb file and path to pass to dpkg-deb
    • dpkg-deb -c - list files provided by .deb
  • See also:
    • https://askubuntu.com/questions/32507/how-do-i-get-a-list-of-installed-files-from-a-package
    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/408346/how-to-download-package-not-install-it-with-apt-get-command
• apk: apk info -L $1
• pacman -- pacman -Fl $1
  • More research needed, does pacman -Fyy need to be invoked specifically before querying an uninstalled package?
  • Ultimately went with downloading the package, then querying it instead of messing with syncing the files database
• xpbs- -- xbps-query -Rf $1
• dnf -- dnf -C repoquery -l $1
• zypper 🚧 not implemented yet see: OpenSUSE / zypper #15
  • Not Installed:
    • zypper in --download-only $1
    • find /var/cache/zypp -name $1
    • rpm -ql
  • Installed:
    • find /var/cache/zypp -name $1
    • rpm -ql
  • See also:
    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/162092/how-can-i-list-all-files-which-have-been-installed-by-an-zypp-zypper-package

Add individual package manager functions

• apt 9711379
• apk e9b04ac
• pacman 2ecd0da
• dnf 76f70eb
• xpbs- 49f77ae

Implement piu files invocation

• help text 76f70eb
• files argument 76f70eb
  • -f abbreviation 76f70eb

Final Testing

• apt
• apk
• pacman
• xpbs-
• dnf

[abitrolly]

@beyondmeh the correct dnf command is dnf -C repoquery -l $1 or dnf --cacheonly repoquery --list $1.

Nice TODO. )

[beyondmeh]

Thank you for the clarification, I've updated the TODO

[beyondmeh]

piu files has been implemented for all of the supported package managers!

• I'm not happy with the Arch Linux code, but "rather something than nothing". I'd love some help refactoring it.
• Alpine Linux's code has some quirks, but the issues are upstream with apk