Debian uses *deb packages to deploy and upgrade software. The packages are stored in repositories and each repository contains the so called "Contents index". The format of that file is well described here https://wiki.debian.org/RepositoryFormat#A.22Contents.22_indices
Your task is to develop a python command line tool that takes the architecture (amd64, arm64, mips etc.) as an argument and downloads the compressed Contents file associated with it from a Debian mirror. The program should parse the file and output the statistics of the top 10 packages that have the most files associated with them. An example output could be:
./package_statistics.py amd64
1. <package name 1> <number of files>
2. <package name 2> <number of files>
......
10. <package name 10> <number of files>You can use the following Debian mirror http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/. Please try to follow Python's best practices in your solution. Hint: there are tools that can help you verify your code is compliant.
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To install the pkg locally, first create a virtual environment and install dependencies using pip
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Run
python setup.py developto installpkg-statslocally
pkg-stats [-h] [-m MIRROR] [-i] [-a] [-n NUMBER] arch
Displays stats for debian packages of a particular architecture
positional arguments:
arch Input system architecture. Eg: arm, amd64, etc
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-m MIRROR, --mirror MIRROR
Mirror link to fetch package information from. Defaults to debian's mirror
-i, --include-udeb Flag to include stats of udeb packages of the procided architecture
-a, --all Finds package stats for all distributions
-n NUMBER, --number NUMBER
Input to display the top 'n' packages