[pacman-dev] [arch-dev-public] Filename search for Arch

[Alessio Bolognino]

On Sun 2008-01-27 22:37 , Xavier wrote:
> Alessio Bolognino wrote:
> >
> > I had the same idea, but I decided it wasn't a great one because to be useful it
> > should be updated every time a new package is released, and IMHO that's not
> > feasible (mainly for the user), considering its size.
> >
> > I still think the best implementation is to create a filelist with repo-add (or
> > whatever script you use to generate the db) on the Arch server and then let is
> > spread in the mirrors. As someone already wrote, xdelta would decrease
> > dramatically the size of the filelist to download.
> >
> >
> 
> I don't see why it would need to be updated so often.
> Even if it was updated once a week, I would still find it very useful.

Well, updated say, once a week, would be still very useful, but if an user
search for /lib/libwhatever.so.7 and doesn't have any result, then he could ask
himself if this is because no package owns that file or because the db is
outdated.
Anyway, once a week is still better than nothing :)

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Alessio Bolognino

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