Module mirror

The mirror module contains all logic to download data from an Arch Linux package mirror. This includes the database files or packages.

Structs

• MirrorDownloader
  The entry point for downloading any data from package mirrors.

Functions

• extract_pkg_files 🔒
  Use tar to extract relevant package metadata and script files from packages files.
• get_tar_file_list 🔒
  Get the list of all files inside a given compressed tarball.
• remove_tarball_suffix
  A small helper function that removes the .pkg.tar.* suffix of a tarball. This is necessary to get the actual package name from a packages full file name.