On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 16:47 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote: > Just to note that looking for multiple versions can cause a fair bit of > network traffic as for http:// mirror urls it will have to wget each in > turn.
True, though I suppose if the fetching was to be moved into python (rather than an external wget) then it would just be repeated GETs over a single persistent connection which wouldn't be all that much overhead. And, even with non-persistent connections, the amount of data involved in establishing an extra TCP connection and sending a GET is fairly negligible compared to the size of the download you're going to end up doing. >Better would be one file name and dynamic detection of the >compression format I guess. Yes, or that. It's a shame that "tar -a" doesn't have the capability to determine the compression method using magic numbers instead of the filename. p. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
