pacman facts

class reemote.facts.pacman.get_packages.Get_packages

Bases: object

Retrieves a list of installed pacman packages from a host.

This Reemote operation executes pacman -Q on the target host to get a list of all installed packages. It then parses this output into a structured list of dictionaries.

The final result of this operation will have its cp.stdout attribute replaced with the parsed list. Each item in the list is a dictionary containing the package ‘name’ and ‘version’.

Examples

# Yield the operation within a Reemote task
result = yield Get_packages()

# The parsed list is in result.cp.stdout
for package in result.cp.stdout:
    print(f"{package['name']}: {package['version']}")

reemote.facts.pacman.get_packages.parse_pacman_list_installed(output)

Parses the raw output of ‘pacman -Q’ into a list of packages.

This function processes the standard output from the pacman -Q command, which lists all installed packages and their versions. It is designed to handle the specific format of this command’s output.

The parsing logic involves:

• Splitting the output into lines.

• Skipping the first two header lines.

• Extracting the package name (the first word) and the version (the rest of the line) for each package.

Parameters:

output (str) – The raw string output from a ‘pacman -Q’ command.

Returns:

A list of dictionaries, where each dictionary

represents an installed package and contains ‘name’ and ‘version’ keys.

Return type:

list[dict]