2008/8/17 wakeup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi folks, > I think there should be a way to access the AUR without having to use a > full featured web browser, preferably a command-line client. > I suggest exposing a db (like every repository got one) and an ftp site > which contains the same as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages to public > use. On that way one could easily write clients that fetch the db, > perform queries offline and get the tarballs via ftp. > I do realize that there is yaourt, but that work-around is not exactly > what I thought of. > What do you think?
There's already an RPC interface for the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php You can always write a script which fetches http://aur.archlinux.org/packages every X hours and stores the package names in a text file. Fetching tarballs is also easy -- a simple script will do the job (the tarballs are in http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$pkgname/$pkgname.tar.gz) There's also the excellent aurvote [1] which allows you to vote for packages from the command line. It can also be extended to flag packages out of date, for example. -- Abhishek
