update to subdir mgmt, active work undergoing on kant, and some notes for future projects for arch pkg mgmt

arch/reference

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+some random snippets to incorporate...
+
+
+
+######################
+this was to assist with https://www.archlinux.org/news/perl-library-path-change/
+the following was used to gen the /tmp/perlfix.pkgs.lst:
+pacman -Qqo '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl' >> /tmp/perlfix.pkgs.lst ; pacman -Qqo '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl' >> /tmp/perlfix.pkgs.lst
+######################
+
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+import datetime
+import re
+import os
+import pprint
+import subprocess
+
+pkgs = []
+
+pkglstfile = '/tmp/perlfix.pkgs.lst'
+
+if os.path.isfile(pkglstfile):
+    with open(pkglstfile, 'r') as f:
+        pkgs = f.read().splitlines()
+
+pkgd = {'rdeps': [],
+        'deps': [],
+        'remove': []}
+
+for p in pkgs:
+    pkgchkcmd = ['apacman', '-Q', p]
+    with open(os.devnull, 'w') as devnull:
+        pkgchk = subprocess.run(pkgchkcmd, stdout = devnull, stderr = devnull).returncode
+    if pkgchk != 0:  # not installed anymore
+        break
+    cmd = ['apacman',
+           '-Qi',
+           p]
+    stdout = subprocess.run(cmd, stdout = subprocess.PIPE).stdout.decode('utf-8').strip().splitlines()
+    #pprint.pprint(stdout)
+    d = {re.sub('\s', '_', k.strip().lower()):v.strip() for k, v in (dict(k.split(':', 1) for k in stdout).items())}
+
+    # some pythonizations..
+    # list of things(keys) that should be lists
+    ll = ['architecture', 'conflicts_with', 'depends_on', 'groups', 'licenses', 'make_depends',
+          'optional_deps', 'provides', 'replaces', 'required_by']
+    # and now actually listify
+    for k in ll:
+        if k in d.keys():
+            if d[k].lower() in ('none', ''):
+                d[k] = None
+            else:
+                d[k] = d[k].split()
+    # Not necessary... blah blah inconsistent whitespace blah blah.
+    #for k in ('build_date', 'install_date'):
+    #    if k in d.keys():
+    #        try:
+    #            d[k] = datetime.datetime.strptime(d[k], '%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %p %Z')
+    #        except:
+    #            d[k] = datetime.datetime.strptime(d[k], '%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %p')
+
+    #pprint.pprint(d)
+    if d['required_by']:
+        pkgd['rdeps'].extend(d['required_by'])
+    else:
+        if d['install_reason'] != 'Explicitly installed':
+            pkgd['remove'].append(p)
+    if d['depends_on']:
+        pkgd['deps'].extend(d['depends_on'])
+    #break
+
+for x in ('rdeps', 'deps'):
+    pkgd[x].sort()
+
+#for p in pkgd['rdeps']:
+#    if p in pkgd['deps']:
+#        pkgd['
+
+#print('DEPENDENCIES:')
+#print('\n'.join(pkgd['deps']))
+#print('\nREQUIRED BY:')
+#print('\n'.join(pkgd['rdeps']))
+#print('\nCAN REMOVE:')
+print('\n'.join(pkgd['remove']))
+
+#cmd = ['apacman', '-R']
+#cmd.extend(pkgd['remove'])
+#subprocess.run(cmd)

gpg/kant.py

@@ -107,7 +107,14 @@ def getKeys(args):
     return(allkeys)
 
 def sigKeys(keyids):
-    pass
+    # Map the trust levels to "human" equivs
+    trustmap = {0: 'unknown',
+                1: 'untrusted',
+                2: 'marginal',
+                3: 'full',
+                4: 'ultimate'}
+    def promptTrust(kinfo):
+        trust = input('\nWhat trust level should we sign {0} ({1} <{2}>) with?'.format(kinfo['fpr'], kinfo['name'], kinfo['email']))
 
 def modifyDirmngr(op, args):
     if not args['keyservers']:

gpg/sksdump.py

@@ -70,16 +70,19 @@ def destPrep():
     nowdir = os.path.join(sks['destdir'], NOWstr)
     curdir = os.path.join(sks['destdir'], 'current')
     PAST = NOW - datetime.timedelta(days = sks['days'])
-    for thisdir, dirs, files in os.walk(sks['destdir']):
+    for thisdir, dirs, files in os.walk(sks['destdir'], topdown = False):
         for f in files:
             fstat = os.stat(os.path.join(thisdir, f))
             mtime = fstat.st_mtime
             if int(mtime) < PAST.timestamp():
                 os.remove(os.path.join(thisdir, f))
-    try:
+            # Delete if empty dir
-        os.removedirs(sks['destdir'])  # Remove empty dirs
+            if len(os.listdir(thisdir)) == 0:
-    except:
+                os.rmdir(thisdir)
-        pass  # thisisfine.jpg
+    #try:
+    #    os.removedirs(sks['destdir'])  # Remove empty dirs
+    #except:
+    #    pass  # thisisfine.jpg
     os.makedirs(nowdir, exist_ok = True)
     if getpass.getuser() == 'root':
         uid = getpwnam(sks['user']).pw_uid
@@ -119,6 +122,9 @@ def compressDB():
         for f in files:
             fullpath = os.path.join(thisdir, f)
             newfile = '{0}.{1}'.format(fullpath, sks['compress'])
+            # TODO: add compressed tarball support.
+            # However, I can't do this on memory-constrained systems for lrzip.
+            # See: https://github.com/kata198/python-lrzip/issues/1
             with open(sks['logfile'], 'a') as f:
                 f.write('===== {0} Now compressing {1} =====\n'.format(str(datetime.datetime.utcnow()), fullpath))
             if sks['compress'].lower() == 'gz':