Script for creating a personal package repository in ubuntu

Script for creating a personal package repository in ubuntu

#!/usr/bin/env python

import optparse, subprocess, logging, os, sys, shutil

APT_COMMAND = 'apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confnew" -y --force-yes -qq install %s'

def apt_install(app):
    logging.info("Calling: %s" % (APT_COMMAND % app))
    subprocess.call(APT_COMMAND % app, shell=True)

def configure_personal_repo(self):
        """
        Follow instructions at:
        https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Personal
        to allow hardy installation of extra downloaded packages.
        """

        download_packages = (
            'http://www.princexml.com/download/prince_7.0-1_i386.deb',
            'http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/mod-wsgi/libapache2-mod-wsgi_2.8-2_i386.deb',
            'http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/e/ec2-api-tools/ec2-api-tools_1.3.34128-0ubuntu2_i386.deb',
        )

        # Install dpkg-dev
        apt_install('dpkg-dev')

        # Create update-mydebs
        contents = """cd /usr/local/mydebs
        dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz"""
        mydebs = open('/usr/bin/update-mydebs', 'w')
        mydebs.write(contents)
        mydebs.close()

        # Make update-mydebs runnable
        subprocess.call('chmod u+x /usr/bin/update-mydebs', shell=True)

        # Create mydebs dir
        subprocess.call('mkdir /usr/local/mydebs', shell=True)

        # Download extra packages
        old_cwd = os.getcwd()
        os.chdir('/usr/local/mydebs')
        for package_url in download_packages:
            subprocess.call('wget %s --no-verbose' % package_url, shell=True)
        os.chdir(old_cwd)

        # Run update-mydebs to include downloaded packages
        subprocess.call('/usr/bin/update-mydebs', shell=True)

        # Add mydebs to the sources.list
        content = """
        ## Mydebs entry for holding .deb (used for policystat downloaded packages)
        deb file:/usr/local/mydebs ./
        """
        sources = open('/etc/apt/sources.list', 'a')
        sources.write(content)
        sources.close()