On 10/1/19 5:33 PM, Greg Minshall wrote: > Mark, > > thanks again. > >> You need information on *every* package? Not just the ones you use? >> Technically >> in your script, you can query pacman for the foreign packages, then compare >> to >> an RPC response (and info can take multiple packages, just check the wiki), >> then take action on those specific packages. I don't see the need to have >> information on every single PKGBUILD on the AUR. > > yes, my *desire* is to have info on all packages, so i can search > locally (especially the descriptions) when wondering what might be > available. i don't know if that seems unreasonable, but it is what i > was hoping to achieve. > > and, thanks for reminding me -- i did once know that "info" requests > allow multiple packages. there is some limit, though i don't remember > what. still, the number of separate RPCs would likely be in the > thousands.
The limitations are described on the wiki page you were referred to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Aurweb_RPC_interface#Limitations (Also, it is "multiinfo", not "info" requests, that you use for multiple packages.) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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