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PowerShellGet

September 2021, Roger H. Jörg

Introduction

In addition to the PowerShellGet modules found earlier on GitHub, there is a module with the same name installed with PowerShell 7.1. It is located at C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\Modules\PowerShellGet on my computer.

Inspection

This version of PowerShellGet is (again) one large PowerShell script.

The PowerShellGet.psd1 file reveals the following functions to be exported:

Find-Command, Find-DSCResource, Find-Module, Find-RoleCapability, Find-Script, Get-CredsFromCredentialProvider, Get-InstalledModule, Get-InstalledScript, Get-PSRepository, Install-Module, Install-Script, New-ScriptFileInfo, Publish-Module, Publish-Script, Register-PSRepository, Save-Module, Save-Script, Set-PSRepository, Test-ScriptFileInfo, Uninstall-Module, Uninstall-Script, Unregister-PSRepository, Update-Module, Update-ModuleManifest, Update-Script, Update-ScriptFileInfo.

Looking at this list, this somehow interferes with the previously inspected PowerShellGet modules found on GitHub.

The main implementation of the module is in the PSModule.psm1 file. This file is 16’000+ lines of code!

Gallery Info

$Script:PSGalleryModuleSource = "PSGallery"
$Script:PSGallerySourceUri = 'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2'
$Script:PSGalleryPublishUri = 'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/package/'
$Script:PSGalleryScriptSourceUri = 'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v2/items/psscript'
$Script:PSGalleryV3SourceUri = 'https://www.powershellgallery.com/api/v3'

The gallery supports NuGet V3 API.

Get-PSRepository

We end up calling PackageManagement\Get-PackageSource, so that package needs to be investigated.

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