I wrote a script, which you can read here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/genrepofilelist.sh.html
If there are no objections, I would add a daily cronjob to my user's crontab which runs this script for testing,core,extra,community,unstable for both architectures. The filelist for extra is about 2.7MB gz-compressed. This would at least allow advanced users to download these file lists and use zgrep to search for files. I would love to see options to sync and search those file lists in pacman. IMO, it should be possible to configure the following in pacman.conf: - Always sync the filelists with -Sy for offline use - Sync the filelists only on demand (when pacman -So is called and they are out of date)
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