[aur-general] Mass un-notify?

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 01:27, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, the packages are already orphaned.

So the packages in question are all packages in AUR that the user
'arch-haskell' has marked 'notify'.

/M

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