go

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Alpine Go

These are a set of packages that help with interacting with various Alpine Linux related systems. These things include:

• APKBUILD files
• APKINDEX files
• .apk files
• release.json

Packages

In-depth documentation for this package can be found on pkg.go.dev

apkbuild

import "gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/go/apkbuild"

Package apkbuild parses APKBUILD files and returns the metadata.

repository

import "gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/go/repository"

Package repository parses .apk and APKINDEX files, providing information about all packages in the index.

releases

import "gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/go/releases"

Package releases provides functions and structures to get information about Alpine Linux releases.

rels, err := releases.Fetch()

for _, releaseBranch := range rels.ReleaseBranches {
    fmt.Printf("Release %s eol: %s\n", releaseBranch.RelBranch, releaseBranch.EolDate)
}

version

import "gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/go/version"

Package version tokenizes a apk package version using the same algorithm as apk-tools uses.

Community projects using alpine/go

Project	Description
apkcirkledep	Report circular dependencies between packages in aports
apkgquery	Query aports using an expression language
packages	Host Alpine package repositories

License

MIT