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

[Sebastian Nowicki]

On 31/12/2009, at 10:46 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote:

> 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.

It would make more sense to expand upon the RPC and use a client which  
caches. Initially any queries might be slower, but the second time  
they would be just as fast, without the overhead of downloading _all_  
packages..