[aur-dev] Embed AUR on other website
Hi! I'm working on a new Arch-based distro, and I'd like to know if it's possible to embed AUR into another webpage, so that users of our distro have access to the same packages as Arch users do without having to show directly this website... this would be cool because all of our users would be somehow contributing directly to Arch without doubling efforts... Any suggestions will do. Thanks [image: big_smile] -- LTSmash
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:10:02PM +0000, LTSMash . wrote:
I'm working on a new Arch-based distro, and I'd like to know if it's possible to embed AUR into another webpage, so that users of our distro have access to the same packages as Arch users do without having to show directly this website... this would be cool because all of our users would be somehow contributing directly to Arch without doubling efforts...
There isn't any established way to do this with full functionality. Also I'd prefer not to mask the origin of AUR.
On 02/03/2009, at 6:10 AM, LTSMash . wrote:
Hi!
I'm working on a new Arch-based distro, and I'd like to know if it's possible to embed AUR into another webpage, so that users of our distro have access to the same packages as Arch users do without having to show directly this website... this would be cool because all of our users would be somehow contributing directly to Arch without doubling efforts...
That's not exactly a nice way of doing it. It would be possible by using an API, but this would only retrieve data from the AUR website, and would probably be quite slow. Another (ugly) possibility is simply using iframes.
What about a simple code to retreive a backup of the SQL tables
containing packages informations ? That would do like mirroring the
AUR website (without user informations), a little bit like it is for
the other repositories.
Or let's make things in large, set up a Pacman User Repositories
(PUR(e?)) that merges the efforts of some distributions using pacman
(that's a little utopist, I think).
2009/3/3 Sebastian Nowicki
On 02/03/2009, at 6:10 AM, LTSMash . wrote:
Hi!
I'm working on a new Arch-based distro, and I'd like to know if it's possible to embed AUR into another webpage, so that users of our distro have access to the same packages as Arch users do without having to show directly this website... this would be cool because all of our users would be somehow contributing directly to Arch without doubling efforts...
That's not exactly a nice way of doing it. It would be possible by using an API, but this would only retrieve data from the AUR website, and would probably be quite slow. Another (ugly) possibility is simply using iframes.
On 03/03/2009, at 5:50 PM, Cilyan Olowen wrote:
What about a simple code to retreive a backup of the SQL tables containing packages informations ? That would do like mirroring the AUR website (without user informations), a little bit like it is for the other repositories.
What's the point? This would only lead to unnecessary duplication and maintenance problems.
Or let's make things in large, set up a Pacman User Repositories (PUR(e?)) that merges the efforts of some distributions using pacman (that's a little utopist, I think).
I don't see how this would work. Each distribution would likely require their own repository anyway. If the distributions aren't different and don't require different packages, then what's the point of the distribution itself? There's no problem with setting up another AUR. As far as I know it's portable and does not depend on the Archlinux website. However, duplicating data seems unnecessary and would only create problems.
participants (4)
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Cilyan Olowen
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Loui Chang
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LTSMash .
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Sebastian Nowicki