On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/12 Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi all, >> >> I have created a script which generates an archive containg filelists of >> every >> pacakge in our repos. This makes it possible to show a list of files on the >> webpage or implement some tool to search for a package by giving a filename. >> >> I have set up a cronjob (see createFileList in my home dir) for doing this >> once per day. It is implemented somehow incremental, so serverload is quite >> low. At the moment I save the output at >> http://dev.archlinux.org/~pierre/test-repo/. What do you think about moving >> those files to /home/ftp and make them available on every mirror? >> >> Filesize is not a real problem; even with using gz instead of bz2: > >> >> The file format is the same as the one used for the repo-db files for pacman. >> >> Currently I use this data to feed my webbased package browser, but make those >> files available to the public some users might implement some cool command >> line tools etc.. >> > > This can be useful. > Has this been moved to somewhere in /home/ftp ?
Not yet, I will set this up as a cron job with the new db scripts tomorrow
