[aur-general] metadata file/database of AUR?

[Nathan Wayde]

On 31/12/09 14:42, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> just wondering.
> afaik tools such as yaourt, when you search a package, they will search
> for http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=<packagename>  and parse the
> output, right?
>
> wouldn't it make sense to have a daily crontab on the aur server that
> generates a file which contains all packages (maybe along with their
> description) ? then users can do local searches instead.
>
> Dieter
>
Most if not all the others use http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php.
The local search would be nice though.