[aur-general] Mass un-notify?

Xyne xyne at archlinux.ca
Thu Dec 1 19:27:42 EST 2011


Kwpolska wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> > Magnus Therning wrote:
> >
> >> I'll skip the explanation of how this situation came about and instead
> >> just ask the question:
> >>
> >> Is there a convenient way to remove notifications from the around 2000
> >> packages that I currently receive notifications on?
> >>
> >> The easiest way seems to put in an email address that doesn't work,
> >> but that doesn't feel very nice.
> >>
> >> /M
> >
> >
> > Do you have a list of the AURIDs? If so, you could write a script to do it.
> > Take a look at the POST form attached to the "unnotify" button.
> >
> > If you don't have the IDs then you can scrape the search pages for them.
> 
> or:
> http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=msearch&arg=[subject name here]

I thought about that too, but I think he already orphaned the packages. The
msearch may work with "orphan" or "nobody", but there may be too many results
for the interface to handle.


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