On Jan 25, 2008 5:02 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
eliott schrieb:
I guess I don't see where this script fits in, and how it is supposed to be used. thomas made mention of using zgrep for advanced users, but that seems just as difficult as opening a web browser and typing into a search box.
The purpose is to provide filelists for download, so they can be searched offline by pacman. My first idea (implementing an online search in pacman) was rejected, thus I thought about a "download the filelist and search it" offline solution.
Oh, I must have misunderstood too. If you're going to implement filelist search and all that stuff, we should: a) Move this to the pacman-dev mailing list b) Add external tools to do this as part of the "pacman source", i.e. as a patch to repo-add c) Not use this script until pacman actually has this feature. If the intent is to let users zgrep it, then I agree with cactus that that is significantly more complex then actually using the website to provide a search interface.