Package file lists archive
Christopher Faylor
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Mon May 26 21:22:00 GMT 2014
On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 05:37:45PM -0500, Steven Penny wrote:
>The MSYS2 project keep an up to date archive with files lists for all packages
>
>http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/msys2/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/mingw64.files.tar.gz
>
>This file is not very large considering
>
> $ gzip -l mingw64.files.tar.gz
> compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name
> 982852 9585152 89.7% mingw64.files.tar
>
>I was wondering if something like this is possible with Cygwin. Currently if you
>want to search a file that is not installed you must use
>
> cygcheck --package-query
>
>which I have noticed can be very slow. I would be happy to help with maintaining
>a Cygwin archive with file lists for all packages.
Not sure how you'd do that. I suspect that MSYS is a lot more static
than Cygwin. I don't think package maintainers wants to notify you
every time they upload a package.
And, frankly, I think it's a bad idea to keep a monolithic list of
packages available for people to download anyway.
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