pyalpm is a C extension for Python 3 that give access to the libalpm API for package management, which is used, for example in the Arch Linux distribution.

• Python 3 or later

• libalpm 13

• meson

• meson-python

• python-sphinx (optional, to build the docs)

Building is as easy as running:

meson setup build
meson compile -C build

Building the docs:

meson compile -C build doc

Required test dependency:

• python-pytest
• gcovr (optional, generating C coverage)

Unit tests can be run with:

meson test -C build

Coverage for the CPython code can be generated as following:

meson setup build --reconfigure -Dcoverage=true
meson compile -C build
meson test -C build
ninja coverage -C build

1. Bump version in meson.build
2. commit
3. git tag

1. python3 setup.py sdist
2. twine upload -s dist/* --verbose

The master branch tracks the most recent pacman release and thus libalpm release, the next branch follows pacman's master branch.

Building against pacman-git is as simple as:

git clone https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.git
mkdir build
cd build && meson .. && ninja
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/path/to/pacman/build/meson-uninstalled make build

Running tests against pacman-git:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/pacman/build/ make test