[aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

[Abhishek Dasgupta]

2009/5/30 Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg at gmail.com>:
> I'll write a script to fetch the maintainers of all packages in the
> official repositories and store them in a simple text file, so that
> people who need the maintainer information for the whole archive
> can just use that instead of polling archlinux.org
>

The list of maintainers will soon be at
  http://abhidg.mine.nu/arch/maintainers.txt

It'll be updated daily at 0430 UTC.
The script used is given below:

#!/bin/sh

URL="http://www.archlinux.org/packages"
OUTPUT=/arch/maintainers.txt
arch=i686

if [ ! -f /etc/abs.conf ]; then
    echo "This program needs 'abs' (pacman -S abs)."
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -x /usr/bin/curl ]; then
    echo "This program needs 'curl' (pacman -S curl)."
    exit 1
fi

. /etc/abs.conf

pushd "$ABSROOT" >/dev/null

for repo in core extra; do
    pushd $repo >/dev/null
    for i in *; do
        maintainer="$(curl -s $URL/$repo/$arch/$i/maintainer/)"
        if ! (echo $maintainer | grep -q DOCTYPE); then
            echo "$i $maintainer" >> $OUTPUT.new
        fi
    done
    popd >/dev/null
done

if [ -f "$OUTPUT" ]; then
    mv "$OUTPUT" "$OUTPUT.old"
fi

mv "$OUTPUT.new" "$OUTPUT"

-- 
Abhishek