I've developed a way to AUR search+install with pacman via proxy

Question

at the moment it's not complete, and the database is up-to-date only as of Oct-16-2007;; but i believe it's in a stable position to be tested ..
i look forward to your feedback
so anyway .. i call it alaura, and it is a system developed in python to create a pacman database in order to allow
users to search as they normally would, and simply issue a command .. pacman -S pkg-in-aur and have that
pkg installed as they would any other pkg ...
add
[alaura]
Server = http://arch.u54.eu/repo
to your pacman.conf
the client side of the system is basically, download pkg from alaura repo, that pkg has an install script,
the install script removes the (alaura)proxy pkg and then uses yaourt(i hope to develop a simpler installer that does one job) to install the pkg from aur
. ad oh, the repo is generated using gradgrind's gen_repo script
so far i've only indexed 100 pkgs :: `pacman -Sl alaura`
more details will be published soon, i have to go study now ...
Last edited by kumico (2007-10-17 12:07:24)

Answer 1

no one seemed interested, so when i switched to using a laptop i didn't take the code with me, i have a slightly older version somewhere though,
i have exams this week but i will prolly squeeze a tester out, i still have my design of the system somewhere as well so it shouldn't be too difficult to pickup where i left off
thanks for taking an interest.