User:Toofishes/Libalpm and LUA

This is a brief outline mainly for my own use in getting a hooks and other scripting point backend written for libalpm.

Objects

These things can become objects with the listed methods attached.

Handle

• Any alpm_option_* method
• Any alpm_trans_* method (since we only have one transaction per handle)
• alpm_fetch_pkgurl (although probably not needed in backend...)
• alpm_get_localdb
• alpm_get_syncdbs
• alpm_register_syncdb
• alpm_unregister_all_syncdbs
• alpm_pkg_load
• alpm_find_group_pkgs
• alpm_sync_sysupgrade
• alpm_add_pkg
• alpm_remove_pkg
• alpm_checkdeps
• alpm_find_satisfier (TODO: why doesn't this take handle)
• alpm_find_dbs_satisfier
• alpm_checkconflicts
• alpm_errno (and add convenience function for strerror)
• alpm_release

Package

• Any alpm_pkg_get_* method
• Any other alpm_pkg_* methods?
• alpm_pkg_check_pgp_signature
• alpm_pkg_changelog_read (TODO: change so pkg is first argument)
• alpm_sync_newversion

Database

• Any alpm_db_* method
• alpm_db_check_pgp_signature
• alpm_db_update (TODO: change so db is first parameter)

Top-level Methods

• alpm_version
• alpm_capabilities
• alpm_pkg_vercmp (TODO: change this name, why does it have pkg in it)
• alpm_initialize
• alpm_compute_md5sum
• alpm_compute_sha256sum
• alpm_strerror

These are attached to nothing except the top-level alpm library object.