[aur-general] Method to get all Packages

[Lukas Appelhans]

On Mittwoch 14 Januar 2009 14:32:25 goodmenzy at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
> > To: aur-general at archlinux.org
> > Reply-To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)"
> > <aur-general at archlinux.org> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:07:38 +0100
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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. )

Well is there a database-file for aur?

Lukas