From b1a8717ae8e07101cfae03b978d57b793884a3d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:17:05 +0200
Subject: * cmdline/apt-mark:   - very simple tool to manipulate the
 extended_states for autoinstall * apt-pkg/depcache.cc:   - keep exisiting
 data in "extended_states" to make other tools happy

---
 cmdline/apt-mark | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 cmdline/apt-mark

(limited to 'cmdline/apt-mark')

diff --git a/cmdline/apt-mark b/cmdline/apt-mark
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..533ed8715
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmdline/apt-mark
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+from optparse import OptionParser
+
+try:
+    import apt_pkg
+except ImportError:
+    print "Error importing apt_pkg, is python-apt installed?"
+    
+import sys
+import os.path
+    
+actions = { "markauto" : 1,
+            "unmarkauto": 0
+          }
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    apt_pkg.init()
+
+    # option parsing
+    parser = OptionParser()
+    parser.usage = "%prog [options] {markauto|unmarkauto} packages..."
+    parser.add_option("-f", "--file", action="store", type="string",
+                      dest="filename",
+                      help="read/write a different file")
+    parser.add_option("-v", "--verbose",
+                      action="store_true", dest="verbose", default=False,
+                      help="print verbose status messages to stdout")
+    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+    if len(args) < 2:
+        parser.error("not enough argument")
+
+    # get pkgs to change
+    if args[0] not in actions.keys():
+        parser.error("first argument must be 'markauto' or 'unmarkauto'")
+    pkgs = args[1:]
+    action = actions[args[0]]
+
+    # get the state-file
+    if not options.filename:
+        STATE_FILE = apt_pkg.Config.FindDir("Dir::State") + "extended_states"
+    else:
+        STATE_FILE=options.state_file
+
+    # open the statefile
+    if os.path.exists(STATE_FILE):
+        tagfile = apt_pkg.ParseTagFile(open(STATE_FILE))
+        outfile = open(STATE_FILE+".tmp","w")
+        while tagfile.Step():
+            pkgname = tagfile.Section.get("Package")
+            autoInst = tagfile.Section.get("Auto-Installed")
+            if pkgname in pkgs:
+                if options.verbose:
+                    print "changing %s to %s" % (pkgname,action)
+                newsec = apt_pkg.RewriteSection(tagfile.Section,
+                                       [],
+                                       [ ("Auto-Installed",str(action)) ]
+                                       )
+                outfile.write(newsec+"\n")
+            else:
+                outfile.write(str(tagfile.Section)+"\n")
+        # all done, rename the tmpfile
+        os.rename(outfile.name, STATE_FILE)
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