On 12/5/06, Rainer Peter Feller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 02:12 -0500, Colin Dean wrote:
> Chris Staub wrote:
> > Colin Dean wrote:
> >> I recently finished a build of LFS 6.2, and quickly realized that
> >> there is no way to get the packages for BLFS or other packages from
> >> within a fresh built LFS environment.
> >>
<snip>
> > LFS includes inetutils, which has several internet programs, including ftp.
>
> Ah, I see that now--having FTP is definitely a boon, but aren't the
> majority of packages available via HTTP?
your distro your rules ...
just install wget ... and yes may be it should be a component of lfs :-)
just use this piece of script fu for http file downloading - I really
should troll the archives and find out the proper attribution for this
code, but it never seems I have enough time ;)
------------< add to /etc/profile >-------------------
# Function to get the contents of a URL and display to STDOUT
httpget () {
h=${1#http://}
h=${h%%/*}
p=${h#*:}
if [ "$p" = "$h" ]; then
p='80'
fi
f=${1#http://*/}
if [ "$f" = "$1" ]; then
f='/'
else
if [ -z "$f" ]; then
f='/'
else
f="/$f"
fi
fi
( echo -e "GET $f HTTP/1.0\r\nHost: $h\r\n\r\n" 1>&3 & cat 0<&3 )
3<>/dev/tcp/$h/$p \
| (read i; while [ "$(echo $i | tr -d '\r')" != "" ]; do read i; done; cat)
}
# Export the function we have created
export -f httpget
-------------------------------------------
the after login\sourceing profile, you can use
httpget http://my.http.file.location/filename.extenstion > filename.extension
no additional binaries required.
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