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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 398

find popular aur packages

I want to use the output of

yaourt "."

to sort all entries by the number of votes that are displayed in parentheses after each relevant package.

I am sure this can be done easily using awk, but I have no clue how to start. Anyone can give me a hint?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: find popular aur packages

not a suitable task for the RPC interface.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O … &SB=v&SO=d

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awayand

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Re: find popular aur packages

what does that mean RPC?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: find popular aur packages

what does that mean RPC?

I think it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-RPC to be exact.

falconindy

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Re: find popular aur packages

More accurately: http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php

Karol: Yes, I'm aware that the AUR uses https now. It's still optional if you're not logged in.

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karol

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Re: find popular aur packages

Karol: Yes, I'm aware that the AUR uses https now. It's still optional if you're not logged in.

Sure, but you can't vote or notify a package that way ;P

@awayand
Have you tried e.g. http://aur3.org/ ?

awayand

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Re: find popular aur packages

@karol: interesting site, thanks!

karol

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Re: find popular aur packages

@karol: interesting site, thanks!

It needs some tweaking, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 5#p1011875 and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1011992
I did the equivalent of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php? … &SB=v&SO=d using a simple and incredibly inefficient bash script but it was a bumpy road.