On 11/11/21 06:22, aur-general-requ...@lists.archlinux.org wrote: > Hello AUR users, > > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. > > Pre-existing archives: > > - packages.gz > - Listing of all packages separated by line break. > - pkgbase.gz > - Listing of all package bases separated by line break. > - users.gz > - Listening of all users separated by line break. > > Metadata archives: > > - packages-meta-v1.json.gz > - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive. > - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz > - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive. > > All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated > on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask > that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches > or bulk multiinfo requests. > > All archives are available for download > athttps://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz > > Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount > of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who > are able to query by themselves en masse. > > We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping > those who can use your maintained software as a result. > > Regards, > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Morris > Software Developer
That's awesome kevin, I got into a problem while downloading the 'packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz' with wget. I somehow corrupted it ... so, is there any hash I can check against ?? like '.sig' file for '.iso' files but, as a hash is a text file maybe ??... sorry if I'm being dumb. yours, zoorat.
