Module mirror

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

Modules

rsync_changes 🔒

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.