On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:08:13AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > I wrote a script, which you can read here: > http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/genrepofilelist.sh.html > > If there are no objections, I would add a daily cronjob to my user's > crontab which runs this script for testing,core,extra,community,unstable > for both architectures. The filelist for extra is about 2.7MB gz-compressed. > > This would at least allow advanced users to download these file lists > and use zgrep to search for files. > > I would love to see options to sync and search those file lists in pacman. > IMO, it should be possible to configure the following in pacman.conf: > - Always sync the filelists with -Sy for offline use > - Sync the filelists only on demand (when pacman -So is called and they > are out of date) > Wow that script is intense on load. Wouldn't it be easier to just take the data out of the mysql db seeing as it's all already there? If I get a chance this afternoon, I'll write a script as well.
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