From 63e38257568018e6e804035fe05cb82fbaa39f8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Girtler <girtler.daniel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:33:21 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove obsolete package functions (#4145)

---
 archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py |   7 +-
 archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py | 102 +--------------------------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-)

diff --git a/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py b/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py
index 7cc617c9..83ed8e40 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/packages/__init__.py
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
-from .packages import find_package, find_packages, group_search, installed_package, list_available_packages, package_search, validate_package_list
+from .packages import installed_package, list_available_packages
 
 __all__ = [
-	'find_package',
-	'find_packages',
-	'group_search',
 	'installed_package',
 	'list_available_packages',
-	'package_search',
-	'validate_package_list',
 ]
diff --git a/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py b/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
index efffc92b..83a376c0 100644
--- a/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
+++ b/archinstall/lib/packages/packages.py
@@ -1,20 +1,10 @@
-import json
-import ssl
 from functools import lru_cache
-from urllib.error import HTTPError
-from urllib.parse import urlencode
-from urllib.request import urlopen
-from urllib.response import addinfourl
 
-from ..exceptions import PackageError, SysCallError
-from ..models.packages import AvailablePackage, LocalPackage, PackageSearch, PackageSearchResult, Repository
+from ..exceptions import SysCallError
+from ..models.packages import AvailablePackage, LocalPackage, Repository
 from ..output import debug
 from ..pacman import Pacman
 
-BASE_URL_PKG_SEARCH = 'https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/'
-# BASE_URL_PKG_CONTENT = 'https://archlinux.org/packages/search/json/'
-BASE_GROUP_URL = 'https://archlinux.org/groups/search/json/'
-
 
 # TODO: This shouldn't be living in here but there are too many
 # circular dependecies so they will need to be cleanup up first
@@ -34,94 +24,6 @@ def check_version_upgrade() -> str | None:
 	return upgrade
 
 
-def _make_request(url: str, params: dict[str, str]) -> addinfourl:
-	ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context()
-	ssl_context.check_hostname = False
-	ssl_context.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_NONE
-
-	encoded = urlencode(params)
-	full_url = f'{url}?{encoded}'
-
-	return urlopen(full_url, context=ssl_context)
-
-
-def group_search(name: str) -> list[PackageSearchResult]:
-	# TODO UPSTREAM: Implement /json/ for the groups search
-	try:
-		response = _make_request(BASE_GROUP_URL, {'name': name})
-	except HTTPError as err:
-		if err.code == 404:
-			return []
-		else:
-			raise err
-
-	# Just to be sure some code didn't slip through the exception
-	data = response.read().decode('utf-8')
-
-	return [PackageSearchResult(**package) for package in json.loads(data)['results']]
-
-
-def package_search(package: str) -> PackageSearch:
-	"""
-	Finds a specific package via the package database.
-	It makes a simple web-request, which might be a bit slow.
-	"""
-	# TODO UPSTREAM: Implement bulk search, either support name=X&name=Y or split on space (%20 or ' ')
-	# TODO: utilize pacman cache first, upstream second.
-	response = _make_request(BASE_URL_PKG_SEARCH, {'name': package})
-
-	if response.code != 200:
-		raise PackageError(f'Could not locate package: [{response.code}] {response}')
-
-	data = response.read().decode('UTF-8')
-	json_data = json.loads(data)
-	return PackageSearch.from_json(json_data)
-
-
-def find_package(package: str) -> list[PackageSearchResult]:
-	data = package_search(package)
-	results = []
-
-	for result in data.results:
-		if result.pkgname == package:
-			results.append(result)
-
-	# If we didn't find the package in the search results,
-	# odds are it's a group package
-	if not results:
-		# Check if the package is actually a group
-		for result in group_search(package):
-			results.append(result)
-
-	return results
-
-
-def find_packages(*names: str) -> dict[str, PackageSearchResult]:
-	"""
-	This function returns the search results for many packages.
-	The function itself is rather slow, so consider not sending to
-	many packages to the search query.
-	"""
-	result = {}
-	for package in names:
-		for found_package in find_package(package):
-			result[package] = found_package
-
-	return result
-
-
-def validate_package_list(packages: list[str]) -> tuple[list[str], list[str]]:
-	"""
-	Validates a list of given packages.
-	return: Tuple of lists containing valid packages in the first and invalid
-	packages in the second entry
-	"""
-	valid_packages = {package for package in packages if find_package(package)}
-	invalid_packages = set(packages) - valid_packages
-
-	return list(valid_packages), list(invalid_packages)
-
-
 def installed_package(package: str) -> LocalPackage | None:
 	try:
 		package_info = []