Re: [arch-dev-public] filelists for packages

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

2008/5/12 Pierre Schmitz :

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Hi all,

I have created a script which generates an archive containg filelists of every pacakge in our repos. This makes it possible to show a list of files on the webpage or implement some tool to search for a package by giving a filename.

I have set up a cronjob (see createFileList in my home dir) for doing this once per day. It is implemented somehow incremental, so serverload is quite low. At the moment I save the output at http://dev.archlinux.org/~pierre/test-repo/. What do you think about moving those files to /home/ftp and make them available on every mirror?

Filesize is not a real problem; even with using gz instead of bz2:

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The file format is the same as the one used for the repo-db files for pacman.

Currently I use this data to feed my webbased package browser, but make those files available to the public some users might implement some cool command line tools etc..

This can be useful. Has this been moved to somewhere in /home/ftp ?

Not yet, I will set this up as a cron job with the new db scripts tomorrow