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[KingRalph 818 9.3.5]

I have a list of repositories and I want to obtain a list of all the packages on that repository.

Is it possible to obtain the .bz2 package list file with only the url of the repo? 

Updated September 6, 2015 by KingRalph

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I have a list of repositories and I want to obtain a list of all the packages on that repository.

Is it possible to obtain the .bz2 package list file with only the url of the repo?

You mean like:

 

repo.domain.com/Packages.bz2

[castix 18.5k iPhone X 12.1.1]

saurik's deb list is open and getting the packages of a repo is considered hacking it

[KingRalph 818 9.3.5]

You mean like:

 

repo.domain.com/Packages.bz2

Yes

saurik's deb list is open and getting the packages of a repo is considered hacking it

 All I'm doing is downloading a file from their repo. How can that be considered as hacking?

That's like saying downloading debs from a repo is stealing 

[Rook 560.6k iPad Pro (2nd gen) 17.4 Donor]

Yes

 All I'm doing is downloading a file from their repo. How can that be considered as hacking?

That's like saying downloading debs from a repo is stealing 

Can't you do it like that?

[KingRalph 818 9.3.5]

Can't you do it like that?

Lemme test it

[Rook 560.6k iPad Pro (2nd gen) 17.4 Donor]

Lemme test it

Keep in mind, you will need to try all these because not all repos are built the same.

 

repo.domain.com/Packages

repo.domain.com/Packages.gz

repo.domain.com/Packages.bz2

[KingRalph 818 9.3.5]

Keep in mind, you will need to try all these because not all repos are built the same.

 

repo.domain.com/Packages

repo.domain.com/Packages.gz

repo.domain.com/Packages.bz2

It worked!

 

KingRalphs-MacBook-Air:~ KingRalph$ wget --no-check-certificate http://rpetri.ch/repo/Packages.bz2

--2015-09-06 19:55:24--  http://rpetri.ch/repo/Packages.bz2

Resolving rpetri.ch (rpetri.ch)... 162.159.241.98, 162.159.240.98

Connecting to rpetri.ch (rpetri.ch)|162.159.241.98|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 8368 (8.2K) [application/x-bzip2]

Saving to: ‘Packages.bz2’

 

Packages.bz2        100%[=====================>]   8.17K  --.-KB/s   in 0s     

 

2015-09-06 19:55:25 (133 MB/s) - ‘Packages.bz2’ saved [8368/8368]

 

 

 

 

Thanks for your help!

[Rook 560.6k iPad Pro (2nd gen) 17.4 Donor]

It worked!

 

KingRalphs-MacBook-Air:~ KingRalph$ wget --no-check-certificate http://rpetri.ch/repo/Packages.bz2

--2015-09-06 19:55:24--  http://rpetri.ch/repo/Packages.bz2

Resolving rpetri.ch (rpetri.ch)... 162.159.241.98, 162.159.240.98

Connecting to rpetri.ch (rpetri.ch)|162.159.241.98|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

Length: 8368 (8.2K) [application/x-bzip2]

Saving to: ‘Packages.bz2’

 

Packages.bz2        100%[=====================>]   8.17K  --.-KB/s   in 0s     

 

2015-09-06 19:55:25 (133 MB/s) - ‘Packages.bz2’ saved [8368/8368]

 

 

 

 

Thanks for your help!

Cool! Now you can use commands to extract the archive and list the contents inside the Packages file inside.

 

You know what you'll be doing

[KingRalph 818 9.3.5]

Cool! Now you can use commands to extract the archive and list the contents inside the Packages file inside.

 

You know what you'll be doing

Yes I do Updated September 7, 2015 by KingRalph