Armbian repo structure analysis

[rpardini]

What happened?

Analysis of the Armbian repos, in respect to what packages/versions are published into which distro and which components.

How to reproduce?

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Branch

main (main development branch)

On which host OS are you observing this problem?

Jammy

Relevant log URL

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Jira ticket: AR-1701

[rpardini]

I wrote a script to grab, parse, and table each package in each distro's components. It's really bad Python but does the job. See the source below. I then used it to analyze both jammy (an old repo) and bookworm (a supposedly brand-new repo). Each result in its CSV file, attached.

Jammy

repo_pkgs_jammy_arm64.csv

Observations, at random:

• most bsp-cli packages are in jammy-main-arm64, but some (eg armbian-bsp-desktop-bananapim5) is in jammy-utils-arm64 ❓
• armbian-jammy-desktop-gnome (and others) are published, in different versions, both at jammy-main and in jammy-utils ❓
• gh is published under jammy-main-arm64 and in jammy-utils-arm64, in different versions ❓
• hello package is published literally everywhere. I assume this is some hack required for legacy reasons.
• nala is published under jammy-utils
• numix-gtk-theme is published under jammy-main ❓
• system-monitoring-center is published under main and -utils ❓

Bookworm

repo_pkgs_bookworm_arm64.csv

• nala is not published at all
• system-monitoring-center is published only in bookworm-utils

Python script source (stinks)

import urllib.request

base_url = 'https://imola.armbian.com/apt/dists'

dist = "jammy"  # bookworm/jammy etc
wanted_arch = "arm64"  # or amd64, armhf etc

components = ["main", f"{dist}-utils", f"{dist}-desktop"]
arches = [wanted_arch, "all"]

all_repo_pkgs: dict[str, list[dict]] = {}

for component in components:
	for arch in arches:
		all_pkgs_versions: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
		pkg_file_url = f"{base_url}/{dist}/{component}/binary-{arch}/Packages"
		print(f"Downloading {pkg_file_url}...")
		pkg_file_blocks = urllib.request.urlopen(pkg_file_url).read().decode('utf-8').split("\n\n")

		# for each block..
		for pkg_file_block in pkg_file_blocks:
			pkg_name = ""
			pkg_version = ""
			for pkg_file_block_line in pkg_file_block.split("\n"):
				if pkg_file_block_line.startswith("Package: "):
					pkg_name = pkg_file_block_line.replace("Package: ", "")
				if pkg_file_block_line.startswith("Version: "):
					pkg_version = pkg_file_block_line.replace("Version: ", "")

			# if we have a name and version, add to all_pkgs
			if pkg_name and pkg_version:
				if pkg_name in all_pkgs_versions:
					all_pkgs_versions[pkg_name].append(pkg_version)
				else:
					all_pkgs_versions[pkg_name] = [pkg_version]

		# find the highest version from each package
		all_pkgs_highest_versions: dict[str, str] = {}
		for pkg_name, pkg_versions in all_pkgs_versions.items():
			all_pkgs_highest_versions[pkg_name] = max(pkg_versions)

		# add from all_pkgs_highest_versions to all_repo_pkgs
		for pkg_name, pkg_version in all_pkgs_highest_versions.items():
			if pkg_name not in all_repo_pkgs:
				all_repo_pkgs[pkg_name] = []
			all_repo_pkgs[pkg_name].append({
				"version": pkg_version,
				"compo-arch": f"{component}-{arch}",
				"component": component,
				"arch": arch
			})

# sort all_repo_pkgs by key
all_repo_pkgs = dict(sorted(all_repo_pkgs.items()))

# all done, lets make a table, where pkg_name is in the rows, and the columns are the different compo-arch's, and the values are the versions
table: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {}
for pkg_name, pkg_versions in all_repo_pkgs.items():
	table[pkg_name] = {}
	for pkg_version in pkg_versions:
		table[pkg_name][pkg_version["compo-arch"]] = pkg_version["version"]

# print the table, in CSV format, with headers.
csv_out = []
csv_out.append("Package," + ",".join([f"{component}-{arch}" for component in components for arch in arches]))
for pkg_name, pkg_versions in table.items():
	for pkg_version in pkg_versions:
		csv_out.append(
			f"{pkg_name},{','.join([table[pkg_name][f'{component}-{arch}'] if f'{component}-{arch}' in table[pkg_name] else '' for component in components for arch in arches])}")

# write the CSV file
with open(f"repo_pkgs_{dist}_{wanted_arch}.csv", "w") as f:
	f.write("\n".join(csv_out))