On 1/27/08, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Jan 27, 2008 12:31 PM, Jeff Mickey <jeff@archlinux.org> wrote:
This is exactly what I think is a bad idea. I wouldn't want someone to query a server when they searched the filelist.. maybe I'm alone in this sentiment.
I agree - if this is to be done, it's to be done in a downloadable, offline file.
Crazy idea. Why not make it a pacman package? $ pacman -S repo-filelist that would be able to use our current mirror system, we can push out updates whenever we want, people can easily opt in, or remove it later if they need to, and the package size wouldn't be a whole lot larger than say...the kernel. We could even include a query utility, that calls zgrep on a compressed file or something. $ repo-filelist "*gcc*" usr/bin/gcc-3.3|gcc3 usr/bin/gcc-3.4|gcc34 usr/bin/gccbug-3.3|gcc3 usr/bin/gccbug-3.4|gcc34