Re: Build IDs for finding packages

[Mark Wielaard <mjw at redhat dot com>]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:47:37PM +0000, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> I've started creating my own mapping by crawling the Ubuntu repositories,
> downloading each package, extracting the contents, and creating a
> .build-id directory containing package URLs. However it seems like this
> would be much more easily done by individual distributions.
> 
> Do Fedora or any other Linux distributions already have such a database
> accessible? Given the URL of a .deb or .rpm file I can easily extract the
> contents - I'd just like a more reliable way to find the package from the
> Build ID.

For Fedora there is Darkserver https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/
Which has an simple API:

* Call to find server version
  https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/serverversion

 This will return a dictionary like {'server-version':'0.1'}

* Call to get GNU build-id details
  https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/buildids/0d0669e4ce89ffb335e36d41eacf3dfd04072e17

  This will return a dictionary of build-id details of 0d0669e4ce89ffb335e36d41eacf3dfd04072e17

* Call to get GNU build-id details of an RPM
  https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/rpm2buildids/argyllcms-1.3.6-1.fc16.i686

  This will return a dictionary of build-id details of the rpm argyllcms-1.3.6-1.fc16.i686

* Call to get download url of a RPM
  https://darkserver.fedoraproject.org/package/argyllcms-debuginfo-1.3.6-1.fc16.i686

  This will return a download URL of the rpm in a dictionary.

Cheers,

Mark