On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:27 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose@darose.net> wrote:
David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Used to be that when viewing a package's info on the Arch web site that there was a link to click on that would take you to a page that would list the files contained in that package. (i.e., equivalent to the output of "pacman -Ql <package>") Seems like that functionality is gone now though.
Just wondering if there was any particular reason why it was removed, and if there were any plans to bring it back. I used to find it a very handy tool, and it would be great to have it again.
Thanks,
DR
Anybody? Beuller? Beuller? :-)
We changed the way the backend worked and parsed information. Due to this, it made producing file lists very time consuming. That was the only downside for all the many many upsides of changing it that way.
We could still save this data, especially considering Pierre wrote a script to generate file lists in the repos themselves[1] but we haven't gotten around to it.
1: ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/extra.files.tar.gz
Point of reference: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=50579