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FS#11432 - Combined package search tool (Arch repos & AUR)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Precious (bigpresh) - Tuesday, 09 September 2008, 20:46 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 25 September 2008, 14:12 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I'd like to build a package search tool to search both the main Arch repositories and the AUR in one go, merging the results together.

I can do this by screen-scraping of course, but that's a pretty ugly solution.

Do you think that a combined search would be a useful feature?
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 25 September 2008, 14:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Community tools are available to do this
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 18:45 GMT
There will never be an official AUR tool that downloads & installs, because the AUR is unsupported. There are about 5 community-developed tools that already do this though, yaourt being the main one.

The AUR does have RPC now though.
Comment by David Precious (bigpresh) - Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 21:42 GMT
Ah, yaourt looks excellent - great stuff, thanks for the hint!

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