helperFunctions: Introduce magic

src/helperFunctions/magic.py

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+"""This is a wrapper around pymagic.
+It aims to provide the same API but with the ability to load multiple magic
+files in the default api.
+"""
+import magic as pymagic
+import os
+
+from helperFunctions.fileSystem import get_src_dir
+
+# On ubuntu this is provided by the libmagic-mgc package
+_default_magic = os.getenv('MAGIC', '/usr/lib/file/magic.mgc')
+_fact_magic = f'{get_src_dir()}/bin/firmware.mgc'
+_internal_symlink_magic = f'{get_src_dir()}/bin/internal_symlink.mgc'
+_magic_file = f'{_internal_symlink_magic}:{_fact_magic}:{_default_magic}'
+
+_instances = {}
+
+
+def _get_magic_instance(**kwargs):
+    """Returns an instance of pymagic.Maigc"""
+    # Dicts are not hashable but sorting and creating a tuple is a valid hash
+    key = hash(tuple(sorted(kwargs.items())))
+    i = _instances.get(key)
+    if i is None:
+        i = _instances[key] = pymagic.Magic(**kwargs)
+    return i
+
+
+def from_file(filename, magic_file=_magic_file, **kwargs) -> str:
+    """Like pymagic's ``magic.from_file`` but it accepts all keyword arguments
+    that ``magic.Magic`` accepts.
+    """
+    m = _get_magic_instance(magic_file=magic_file, **kwargs)
+    return m.from_file(filename)
+
+
+def from_buffer(filename, magic_file=_magic_file, **kwargs) -> str:
+    """Like pymagic's ``magic.from_buffer`` but it accepts all keyword arguments
+    that ``magic.Magic`` accepts.
+    """
+    m = _get_magic_instance(magic_file=magic_file, **kwargs)
+    return m.from_file(filename)

src/install/common.py

@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ def main(distribution):
 
     BIN_DIR.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
 
+    with OperateInDirectory('../../src/bin'):
+        run_cmd_with_logging(
+            'wget https://github.com/maringuu/firmware-magic-database/releases/download/v0.1.0/firmware.mgc'
+        )
+    run_cmd_with_logging(f'file -C -m {INSTALL_DIR / "internal_symlink_magic"}')
+    run_cmd_with_logging(f'mv {INSTALL_DIR / "internal_symlink_magic.mgc"} {BIN_DIR}')
+
     apt_packages_path = INSTALL_DIR / 'apt-pkgs-common.txt'
     dnf_packages_path = INSTALL_DIR / 'dnf-pkgs-common.txt'
 

src/install/internal_symlink_magic

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+# ====================== faf internal ======================
+
+# ---- faf internal link representation ----
+0		string  symbolic\ link\ ->	 symbolic link
+>17		string 	x		to '%s'
+!:mime  inode/symlink