Mario, the devpi-plumber, helps to automate and test large devpi installations. It offers a simple python commandline wrapper around the devpi client binary and utilities for using devpi in a test harness. To get access to the latter, install Mario with the extra test requirement:

pip install devpi-plumber[test]

Among others, it can be used to automate the upload of packages:

with DevpiClient('https://devpi.company.com', 'user', 'secret') as devpi:
    devpi.use('user/testindex')
    devpi.upload('path/to/package-1.0.tar.gz')

To make it easier to perform modifications on non-volatile indices, there is a context manager that temporarily toggles the volatile flag.

with volatile_index(devpi, 'user/prodindex'):
    devpi.remove('broken_package==0.1.0')

In order to simplify the testing of such plumbing scripts, it ships with a simple context manager for starting and stopping devpi servers in tests.

def do_maintenance(devpi):
    """ My plumbing script """
    devpi.use('user/testindex')
    # ...

users = { 
    'user': {'password': 'secret'},
}
indices = {
    'user/prodindex': {},
    'user/testindex': {'bases': 'user/prodindex'},
}
with TestServer(users, indices) as devpi:
    do_maintenance(devpi)

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