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lenni

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2007-09-21

Posts: 95

Combined search for AUR and repos

I would like to set up a meta search engine that searches the repos as well as AUR for a particular package or PKGBUILD.

Does something like that exist already?

Are there APIs to those two search engines?

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Combined repo and AUR search

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: Combined search for AUR and repos

yaourt does this already, I believe some other tools also do. I don't know what APIs they use; when I wrote aurbuild v0.0001 it used web scraping to get info from the AUR;  I don't know what utility is used now.

Dusty

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Susu

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-11-11

Posts: 191

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Re: Combined search for AUR and repos

I really recommend yaourt. It's a very flexible and powerful wrapper script for pacman, abs and aurbuild - plus it can help you managing your pacsave and pacnew conf files.

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neotuli

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 1,204

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Re: Combined search for AUR and repos

web scraping is still used btw.

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