This is hawkey, library providing simplified C and Python API to libsolv [1].

Packages needed for the build (i.e. build requires):

• check-devel
• cmake
• expat-devel
• gcc
• libsolv-devel
• libsolv-tools
• python-devel (or python3-devel for Python 3 build)
• python-nose (or python3-nose for Python 3 build)
• rpm-devel
• zlib-devel

From your checkout dir:

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake .. # add '-DPYTHON_DESIRED="3"' option for Python 3 build
make

To build the documentation, from the build/ directory:

make doc

Libsolv is checked out at /home/akozumpl/libsolv, built at /home/akozumpl/libsolv/build):

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake -D LIBSOLV_PATH="/home/akozumpl/libsolv/" ..
make

To trigger a rebuild of the libsolv header files remove solv/ in libsolv's build directory.

All unit tests should pass after the built finishes, from hawkey checkout dir:

cd build/tests
make tests

There are two parts of unit tests: unit tests in C and unit tests in Python. Generally these two shouldn't overlap: the Python part should only test Python-specific code (and perhaps functions that are too verbose to test from C). To run the C part of the tests manually, from hawkey checkout):

build/tests/test_main tests/repos/

Manually executing the Python part:

PYTHONPATH=`readlink -f ./build/src/python/` nosetests -s tests/python/tests/

The PYTHONPATH is unfortunately needed as the Python test suite needs to know where to import the built hawkey modules.

Collaborators are welcome, get in touch with me [2] to see how you can submit ideas and patches.

[1] https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv [2] https://github.com/akozumpl/dnf/wiki#wiki-Contact