[aur-general] Method to get all Packages

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On 2009-01-14 15:07:38, Lukas Appelhans wrote:
> From: Lukas Appelhans <l.appelhans at gmx.de>
> Subject: [aur-general] Method to get all Packages
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> Hey!
> I'm currently writing a GUI-Frontend for AUR integrated into Shaman (Qt-Alpm-
> Frontend)...
> Some people already pointed me to: http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php which 
> seems to be quite cool in combination with QtJson...
> 
> So now as far as I can see the only thing missing is a method to get the names 
> of _all_ Packages... I tried to parse the Apache output of 
> aur.archlinux.org/packages/ but that might not be a good idea, since the 
> layout can change...
> 
> So, I would like to ask if there is any method to get all package names or if 
> that is planned?
> 
> Lukas

Try this:

   tar -tf $repo.db.tar.gz

you will find all you wanted.

In fact, I have written a perl scripts to do those works and download 
packages that dose not in my local disk( I sync with a source who can't 
provide rsync. )