On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 14:40 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2006 14:17 schrieb Benoit Chesneau:
> > I just put the source code of archlinuxfr.org website online. We use the
> > django code of archlinux.org. To get packages I create a script to get
> > them : pkgdb.rb. It use information from db. You could find it here :
> > http://projet.archlinuxfr.org/browser/trunk
> >
> > or here :
> > http://projet.archlinuxfr.org/svn/trunk/
> 
> Right, I know your script. But I fear it does not behave like the one used by 
> archlinux.org. e.g. maintainer-infos are missing and it fails on some scripts 
> using too much bash-scripting. ;-) And you cannot search for included files. 
> To achiebe this you would hae to parse the built packages.
> 
> So I think reinventing the wheel would not be a good idea here. 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> > But yes could be usefull to have a dump of official db. Maybe in xml. Or
> > better a webservice that access to all packages. If anyone is
> > interrested about it maybe I could start to work on it ?
> 
> Yeah, a xml-export would be really great. But for now an official dump of the 
> package-db would be very helpfull. And this could be done within minutes. 
> Just create a cron-job which dumps the package-table and save it to a public 
> accessable place. 
> 
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The new script work with bash scripting. Sorry I forgot to send the new
one :$. But it works as you could see on
http://archlinuxfr.org/packages  ;) 

I think you're right. It would be better to work with a dump of
database. So all informations are here like the list of file istalled. I
thought about a webservice to support out of date package feature and
such thing :) What do you think about it ?

- b.

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