[aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives

[Kevin Morris]

Hi zoorat,

The files are downloadable in gzip format; when you receive
the file, you'll need to uncompress it.

Example:

    $ curl --output packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz \
        'https://aur.archlinux.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz'

    # zcat is cat for gz files; it uncompresses and cats the content.
    $ zcat packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz > packages-meta-ext-v1.json

You do bring up a nice point about the signature; perhaps we should
provide sigs for all of these archives.

Regards,
Kevin

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 06:34:31AM +0000, zoorat via aur-general wrote:
> 
> On 11/11/21 06:22, aur-general-request at lists.archlinux.org wrote:
> > Hello AUR users,
> >
> > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new
> > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC.
> >
> > Pre-existing archives:
> >
> > - packages.gz
> >      - Listing of all packages separated by line break.
> > - pkgbase.gz
> >      - Listing of all package bases separated by line break.
> > - users.gz
> >      - Listening of all users separated by line break.
> >
> > Metadata archives:
> >
> > - packages-meta-v1.json.gz
> >      - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive.
> > - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz
> >      - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive.
> >
> > All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated
> > on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask
> > that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches
> > or bulk multiinfo requests.
> >
> > All archives are available for download athttps://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz
> >
> > Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount
> > of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who
> > are able to query by themselves en masse.
> >
> > We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping
> > those who can use your maintained software as a result.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kevin
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Morris
> > Software Developer
> 
> 
> That's awesome kevin,
> I got into a problem while downloading the 
> 'packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz' with wget.
> 
> I somehow corrupted it ...
> 
> so, is there any hash I can check against ??
> like '.sig' file for '.iso' files  but, as a hash is a text file maybe ??...
> sorry if I'm being dumb.
> 
> yours,
> zoorat.
> 
> 

-- 
Kevin Morris
Software Developer

Identities:
 - kevr @ Libera
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