fastpac

Parallel pacman package downloader

Manual installation (packaging to follow)

Create requisite directories and set up config file:

# python3 setup.py install
# useradd -r fastpac
# mkdir -p /var/cache/fastpac/{pkg,pkglists}
# chown -R fastpac:fastpac /var/cache/fastpac
# cp config.py /etc/fastpac.conf.py

Usage

# su fastpac
$ pacman -Q > "/var/cache/fastpac/packagelists/$(hostname)"
$ fastpac

Hacking

Contributions are welcome! We use pytest for testing all new code added to fastpac, which you can use to test the codebase by running py.test.

To set up a development environment, run the following commands:

$ pip install --user -e .[dev]  # install all the fastpac deps including dev to user profile
$ py.test  # run test suite to make sure everything is ok