Mirror filtering¶
NOTE: All references to whitelist/blacklist are deprecated, and will be replaced with allowlist/blocklist in 5.0
The mirror filter configuration settings are in the same configuration file as the mirror settings. There are different configuration sections for the different plugin types.
Filtering Plugin package lists can use the
PEP503 normalized
names. Any non-normalized names in bandersnatch.conf
will be automatically
converted.
E.g. to Blocklist discord.py the string ‘discord-py’ is correct, but ‘discord.PY’ will also work.
Plugins Enabling¶
The plugins setting is a list of plugins to enable.
Example (enable all installed filter plugins):
Explicitly enabling plugins is now mandatory for activating plugins
They will do nothing without activation
Also, enabling will get plugin’s defaults if not configured in their respective sections.
[plugins]
enabled = all
Example (only enable specific plugins):
[plugins]
enabled =
allowlist_project
blocklist_project
...
allowlist / blocklist filtering settings¶
The blocklist / allowlist settings are in configuration sections named [blocklist] and [allowlist] these section provides settings to indicate packages, projects and releases that should / should not be mirrored from PyPI.
This is useful to avoid syncing broken or malicious packages.
packages¶
The packages setting is a list of python pep440 version specifier of packages to not be mirrored. Enable version specifier filtering for blocklist and allowlist packages through enabling the ‘blocklist_release’ and ‘allowlist_release’ plugins, respectively.
Any packages matching the version specifier for blocklist packages will not be downloaded. Any packages not matching the version specifier for allowlist packages will not be downloaded.
Example:
[plugins]
enabled =
blocklist_project
blocklist_release
allowlist_project
allowlist_release
[blocklist]
packages =
example1
example2>=1.4.2,<1.9,!=1.5.*,!=1.6.*
[allowlist]
packages =
black==18.5
ptr
Metadata Filtering¶
Packages and release files may be selected by filtering on specific metadata value.
General form of configuration entries is:
[filter_some_metadata]
tag:tag:path.to.object =
matcha
matchb
requirements files Filtering¶
Packages and releases might be given as requirements.txt files
if requirements_path is missing it is assumed to be system root folder (‘/’)
[plugins]
enabled =
project_requirements
project_requirements_pinned
[allowlist]
requirements_path = /my_folder
requirements =
requirements.txt
Project Regex Matching¶
Filter projects to be synced based on regex matches against their raw metadata entries straight from parsed downloaded json.
Example:
[regex_project_metadata]
not-null:info.classifiers =
.*Programming Language :: Python :: 2.*
Valid tags are all
,any
,none
,match-null
,not-null
, with default of any:match-null
All metadata provided by json is available, including info
, last_serial
, releases
, etc. headings.
Release File Regex Matching¶
Filter release files to be downloaded for projects based on regex matches against the stored metadata entries for each release file.
Example:
[regex_release_file_metadata]
any:release_file.packagetype =
sdist
bdist_wheel
Valid tags are the same as for projects.
Metadata available to match consists of info
, release
, and release_file
top level structures, with info
containing the package-wide inthe fo, release
containing the version of the release and release_file
the metadata
for an individual file for that release.
Prerelease filtering¶
Bandersnatch includes a plugin to filter our pre-releases of packages. To enable this plugin simply add prerelease_release
to the enabled plugins list.
[plugins]
enabled =
prerelease_release
Regex filtering¶
Advanced users who would like finer control over which packages and releases to filter can use the regex Bandersnatch plugin.
This plugin allows arbitrary regular expressions to be defined in the configuration, any package name or release version that matches will not be downloaded.
The plugin can be activated for packages and releases separately. For example to activate the project regex filter simply add it to the configuration as before:
[plugins]
enabled =
regex_project
If you’d like to filter releases using the regex filter use regex_release
instead.
The regex plugin requires an extra section in the config to define the actual patterns to used for filtering:
[filter_regex]
packages =
.+-evil$
releases =
.+alpha\d$
Note the same filter_regex
section may include a packages
and a releases
entry with any number of regular expressions.
Platform-specific binaries filtering¶
This filter allows advanced users not interesting in Windows/macOS/Linux specific binaries to not mirror the corresponding files.
[plugins]
enabled =
exclude_platform
[blocklist]
platforms =
windows
Available platforms are: windows
macos
freebsd
linux
.
Keep only latest releases¶
You can also keep only the latest releases based on greatest Version numbers.
[plugins]
enabled =
latest_release
[latest_release]
keep = 3
By default, the plugin does not filter out any release. You have to add the keep
setting.
You should be aware that it can break requirements. Prereleases are also kept.
Block projects above a specified size threshold¶
There is an increasing number of projects that consume a large amount of space. At the time of writing (Jan 2021) the stats shows some of the top projects consume over 100GB each, and the top 100 projects all consume more than 8GB each.
If your usecase for a PyPI mirror is to have the diversity of packages but you
have storage constraints, it may be preferrable to block large packages. This
can be done with the size_project_metadata
plugin.
[plugins]
enabled =
size_project_metadata
[size_project_metadata]
max_package_size = 1G
This will block the download of any project whose total size exceeds 1GB. (The
value of max_package_size
can be either an integer number of bytes or a human-
readable value as shown.)
It can be combined with an allowlist to overrule the size limit for large projects you are actually interested in and want make exceptions for. The following has the logic of including all projects where the size is <1GB or the name is numpy.
[plugins]
enabled =
size_project_metadata
[allowlist]
packages =
numpy
[size_project_metadata]
max_package_size = 1G
If the allowlist_project is also enabled, then the filter becomes a logical and, e.g. the following will include all projects where the size is <1GB and the name appears in the allowlist:
[plugins]
enabled =
size_project_metadata
allowlist_project
[allowlist]
packages =
numpy
scapy
flask
[size_project_metadata]
max_package_size = 1G
Note that because projects naturally grow in size, one that was once within the
size can grow beyond the limit, and will stop being updated. It is then a choice
for the maintainer to make whether to add the package to the exception list
(and possibly run a bandersnatch mirror --force-check
) or to prune the project
from the mirror (with bandersnatch delete <package_name>
).