[aur-general] Method to get all Packages

[Loui Chang]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 03:29:19PM +0100, Lukas Appelhans wrote:
> On Mittwoch 14 Januar 2009 19:07:54 Loui Chang wrote:
> > > > On 2009-01-14 15:07:38, Lukas Appelhans wrote:
> > > > > So, I would like to ask if there is any method to get all package
> > > > > names or if that is planned?
> >
> > The only method is via the web interface. There aren't any plans to make
> > that possible via the json interface. If you're interested in
> > implementing that please send ideas/patches to aur-dev at archlinux.org
> >
> > > Well is there a database-file for aur?
> >
> > Nope.
> > That's an interesting idea though.

> Actually since I didn't get any further, is there probably a way to publish 
> the dir listed by apache when calling (aur.archlinux.org/packages/) on the 
> ftp-server?

Of course there's a way.
You really should be accessing the AUR via the web or json interface
though.
That dir listing doesn't actually reflect the status of the AUR.
Old scripts are only occaisionally removed from that.
That may change soon though.