dons:
I've started a library for programmatically manipulating and querying Arch Linux package infrastructure.
So far we have:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/archlinux-0.1
which supports searching and querying packages on AUR.
> info "xmonad" Right (AURInfo { packageID = 10593 , packageName = "xmonad" , packageVersion = Right (Version {versionBranch = [0,8,1] , versionTags = []},"1.2") , packageCategory = 17 , packageDesc = "A lightweight X11 tiled window manager written in Haskell" , packageLocation = 3 , packageURL = "http://xmonad.org/" , packagePath = "/packages/xmonad/xmonad.tar.gz" , packageLicense = "custom:BSD3" , packageVotes = 260 , packageOutOfDate = False })
Useful things we could do with more work:
* lint checker -- for all our packages, check they are consistent
* hackage version checker -- automatically check versions between hackage and AUR
* cabal2arch version checker -- list all packages that were generated with which version of cabal2arch, then auto-rebuild
* our own yaourt...
Oh,also, anyone know how I can get the full list of arch-haskell maintained packages from AUR programmatically? I've found only very sparse documentation for the JSON interface. If we could get the full package list, we can do regression builds. -- Don