2012/7/20 Christian Hesse <list@xxxxxxxx>: > Don deJuan <donjuansjiz@xxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 2012/07/19 09:53: >> On 07/19/2012 09:52 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: >> > Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44: >> >> [...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, >> >> [...] >> > >> > Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git? That would be really great! >> > >> >> From the wiki: >> Git Repo >> >> A Git Repo of the AUR is maintained by Thomas Dziedzic providing package >> history among other things. It is updated at least once a day. To clone >> the repository (several hundred MB): >> >> $ git clone git://pkgbuild.com/aur-mirror.git > > Nice! > > Though I would prefer a rsync interface. I do not need package history and > would like to save the disk space... There is also aur3[1]. It offers metadata (things you see on the package pages of AUR website) in additional to PKGBUILDs. It doesn't provide rsync access, but I found 18MB (PKGBUILD + metadata, it's compressed) is acceptable. aur3 also has a really neat JSON API, offering full regex searching. 1. http://aur3.org/ -- Regards, Cheer Xiao
