On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Alexander Baldeck <kth5@archlinuxppc.org> wrote:
That's pretty cool and helps a lot. Is it dynamically generated by analyzing the db.tar.gz on the mentioned ftp archives? If so, it's pretty nifty and fast. :)
It downloads the core and extra db.tar.gz's from archlinuxppc.org and ftp.gigabit.nu for i686 and ppc. I think the original script I linked to here actually read all of those files on every page hit, but I've updated it on my laptop so it reads from a ~1.4 MB Lua array instead (which it does very quickly, amazingly enough). I'm trying to think of ways to improve this to become a bit more useful, like adding dynamic filters ("exclude missing packages from extra") and such. If anyone here would like some kind of feature related to scanning the DB's, I'm all ears :)
One thing I'd like to point out though: There's quite a few packages that the ppc port lacks in extra especially. We are aware of this and would like to change it but right now have no definite plans of when to achieve this. We're simply not enough developers to reliably maintain such an amount of packages. So we stick with what we have an maintain it well for now.
The upside of this is that most of the basic packages are there, so pulling a PKGBUILD from x86 to build it on ppc shouldn't never be a big hassle.
Cheers,
Alex
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