On 10/1/19 5:33 PM, Greg Minshall wrote:
Mark,
thanks again.
You need information on *every* package? Not just the ones you use? Technically in your script, you can query pacman for the foreign packages, then compare to an RPC response (and info can take multiple packages, just check the wiki), then take action on those specific packages. I don't see the need to have information on every single PKGBUILD on the AUR.
yes, my *desire* is to have info on all packages, so i can search locally (especially the descriptions) when wondering what might be available. i don't know if that seems unreasonable, but it is what i was hoping to achieve.
and, thanks for reminding me -- i did once know that "info" requests allow multiple packages. there is some limit, though i don't remember what. still, the number of separate RPCs would likely be in the thousands.
The limitations are described on the wiki page you were referred to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Aurweb_RPC_interface#Limitations (Also, it is "multiinfo", not "info" requests, that you use for multiple packages.) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User