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.