On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Allan McRae
pete morris wrote:
Anyway, I've written a script that takes advantage of the [repo].files.tar.gz filelists that are now available to discover which package provides a particular file, when that package is not installed on the user's machine. It is similar to debian's apt-file, if you are familiar with that. I would appreciate any comments on the script, with an eye toward possible inclusion in Allan's pacman-contrib community package.
No comments on the actual script yet (I will look through it over the weekend).
I do like the idea of this script and it is a feature users have requests several times. However, it is currently Arch specific given it relies on file lists that are only created for the Arch repos. How about including Pierre's file list generation script in the scripts/ directory along with repo-add etc? I think these two really need to be added in combination.
I am going to email Pierre and see how general his file list generation script is.
It's in the dbscripts git repo: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=blob;f=cron-jobs/createFile...