[arch-releng] can archiso automatically yield a list of all packages on the iso?

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:49:18 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> On 04/12/2012 04:11 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:06:18 -0300
> > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>  wrote:
> >
> >> On 04/08/2012 08:00 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> >>> Similar to the package lists on release wikipages
> >>> ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:2011.08.19#Package_versions_in_LiveCD_environment
> >>> and
> >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:2011.08.19#Package_versions_in_.2Frepo.2Fcore.2Fi686 )
> >>> (which I do manually until now)
> >>> I would like package lists for all builds generated by archiso, automatically.
> >>> * for "packages used to build live environment" and "packages included in core repo"
> >>> * including which repo it comes from (i.e. something like testing/linux-3.3.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz)
> >>>
> >>> is this possible?
> >>>
> >> http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2012.04.11_04-00-02/arch/pkglist.x86_64.txt
> >> http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2012.04.11_16-00-01-testing/arch/pkglist.x86_64.txt
> >>
> >> ;)
> >>
> > alright, very useful, thanks.
> > can we also get this for all packages included in the core repo (of core images) ?
> >
> > Dieter
> >
> Yes, is on the core.iso, but you are extracting netinstall.iso on such 
> place ;)
> 

oh, we need to extract the isos to get these files?
is it not possible for archiso to just provide these files in addition to the iso files?

Dieter