Dusty, do we still have somewhere in the backend DB to add filelists? If so this should be as simple as modifying reporead.py to parse the $repo.files.tar.gz files.

This was the most irritating recent change indeed. Even though knowing which package depens on the package you are taking a peak at is VERY handy too, i liked the filelist better. I would like as many as possible of those accessable from the web interface. If possible, even the sources, like before.

FileList is not one of the fields on the Package Model, but I can add one easily enough.

I should probably set up a test MySQL database for testing sql migrations... would it be possible to get one on gerolde?

Yeah, filelists on the website are handy if only for the ability to do a google search for

<filename> site:www.archlinux.org/files

So you can find out which package owns a file without having it installed. :P

File lists are now distributed as tarballs on the repos. I have written a tool called pkgfile to use them, it's on AUR as part of the pkgtools package. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17941

pkgfile only provides "pacman -Qo" functionality, not "pacman -Ql" functionality.

Ah, that's correct. I will add an option to list all files belonging to a package. Right now it's possible to manually look in the lists/ directory.

Done. Update to pkgtools 6

my recommendation would be to *not* add it to reporead, but to create another script that ran immediately after reporead, that would look for and parse the $repo.files.tar.gz, if it was still deemed desirous (since Daenyth's update may have resolved the need).

Hmmm, I was hoping to put it in reporead and avoid having multiple SQL UPDATE queries to every package. But reporead already takes a fair while to run so it might be better to split it. Thoughts?

Pkgfile has a --list option for this purpose now.

archlinux.de has that now. Don't know how long its been since Pierre and the guys added it.