providers command

[whyrusleeping]

I'd love to have a command to query and interact with the providers store. Having this would be a great low level tool for hacking certain things together on ipfs as well as helping us to test and debug the providers storage system.

[csasarak]

Is this related to #2919 ?

[whyrusleeping]

@csasarak somewhat. What i'm really after is much more fine grained control, for example:

• list all local provide entries (given to us by other peers)
• clear out local provider entries
• send provides entry X to peer Y directly
• manually add a local providers entry

And so on

[michaelavila]

Good note. I'll take a look at this after some of the other provider work is done.