On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pete morris wrote: >> Anyway, I've written a script that takes advantage of the [repo].files.tar.gz >> filelists that are now available to discover which package provides a >> particular file, when that package is not installed on the user's machine. >> It >> is similar to debian's apt-file, if you are familiar with that. I would >> appreciate any comments on the script, with an eye toward possible inclusion >> in Allan's pacman-contrib community package. >> > > No comments on the actual script yet (I will look through it over the > weekend). > > I do like the idea of this script and it is a feature users have > requests several times. However, it is currently Arch specific given it > relies on file lists that are only created for the Arch repos. How > about including Pierre's file list generation script in the scripts/ > directory along with repo-add etc? I think these two really need to be > added in combination. > > I am going to email Pierre and see how general his file list generation > script is.
It's in the dbscripts git repo: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=blob;f=cron-jobs/createFileLists;h=d6cbd18d9084be1cae733a7a5cf85fd9aa98d637;hb=HEAD _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
