On Mar 17 05:16:32, J.C. Roberts wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:34:16 +0100 Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126678113118214&w=2
> >
> > Has the format of
> > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/index.txt
> > changed again? It seems to be 'ls -l' now.
> >
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> I think this is the second time I've seen you mention the format of the
> index.txt file... so it seems you're "mistakenly" trying to parse
> index.txt to get the file/path names of the stuff you need to download.
> (pardon me if my mind reading skills are slightly off)
>
Indeed, that's what I've been using index.txt for.
(Sorry for not enough mind writing.)
Isn't that why index.txt is there?
> #!/bin/ksh
>
> ftp_host="ftp.openbsd.org"
> basepath="pub/OpenBSD/snapshots"
> arch=`uname -m`
>
> ftp -i -n <<EOF >>ftp.log
> open $ftp_host
> user anonymous none@
> nlist $basepath/$arch ftp.files
> EOF
>
> # exclude floppy*.fs and *.iso
> for FNAME in `grep -v -e "\.iso" -e "\.fs" ftp.files |
> sed -e "s:$basepath/$arch/::"`; do
> if [[ -z $FLIST ]]; then
> FLIST="$FNAME";
> else
> FLIST="$FLIST FNAME"
> fi
> done
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> NOTE the "for ..." is wrapped,
> The result is $FLIST contains just a list of all the file names of the
> stuff on the ftp server in the given directory excluding the *.fs and
> *.iso files.
Very similar to my script here, except I get my list from index.txt
----
#!/bin/sh
error() {
echo $@ >&2
}
fatal() {
error $@
exit 1
}
usage() {
error usage: ${0##*/} release destination [master]
error as in: ${0##*/} '`uname -r` ~/WWW ftp://openbsd.ftp.fu-berlin.de'
error as in: ${0##*/} snapshots /install ftp://ftp.openbsd.org
error as in: ${0##*/} snapshots /install
exit 1
}
[ $# -ge 2 ] || usage
DEST=$2/pub/OpenBSD/$1/`uname -m`
mkdir -p $DEST || fatal cannot create $DEST
cd $DEST || fatal cannot cd to $DEST
SITE=${3:-ftp://ftp.openbsd.org}
SITE=$SITE/pub/OpenBSD/$1/`uname -m`
ftp -a -V $SITE/index.txt || fatal cannot fetch index.txt
cat index.txt | sed "s,^,$SITE/," | xargs ftp -a -k30 -V
cksum -c SHA256
----
> The real magic in the above is in the "nlist" command of ftp, and you
> don't necessarily need to do it in a shell script. perl would work
> equally well.
(Aaargh, I use a shell script whenever I don't necessarily need to
use perl, thank you.)
> If my mind reading skills are off, and you're trying to check the time
> stamp of files on the ftp server, then check out the ftp "modtime"
> command, and point it at the SHA256 file (that "should" be there).
>
> In other words, the format of "index.txt" should not matter since there
> are better ways to get the information you want.
It's been a long time I have read ftp(1), and apparently
I forgot about 'nlist' - thanks.
Anyway, what really is the purpose of index.txt being there then?
To tell the times and sizes?
Jan
