Dear Oliver,
Not quite sure how feasible this is in practice, but it certainly would be incredibly helpful.
It is quite simple. If you have 7 minutes do the following from the command line: hg clone http://bitbucket.org/ido/galaxy-central-importer gci cd gci hg update -C importer sh setup.sh #sets up basic things ./run.sh #end with ctrl-c after startup completes (serving on ....) ./importer.sh #starts the importer wait for "done importing" ./run.sh then open your browser at localhost:8080/galaxy You can log in with 3 different usernames/passwords: name1@/123456 #can only see group1 libs name2@123456 #can only see group2 libs tamir@/123456 #can see all libs Of course only the file paths get inserted into the db. more on: http://idotamir.blogspot.com best wishes, ido