> Cyril Plisko wrote: > > On Feb 1, 2008 8:30 PM, Nick Briggs > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I second the request to have the SDLC work with > wget. > >> I had to switch to using the Sun Download Manager > to get the build 81 images, > >> and it does NOT work well either -- it seems to > have lost the drag-and-drop capability with the new > SDLC setup. > >> > > > > FWIW, I also think that making it harder to get the > images should > > be classified as regression and fixed ASAP. > > > > I am sure we can create some sort of automatic > procedure, > > but I see no reason for this. It should just work > without us > > spending our precious time on working around new > obstacle. > > > > > Three clicks to select and three to save to disk? > > Yes I used to prefer wget, but I'd trade the new > site's ability to > saturate my link for that convenience any day. One > reason I preferred > wget was the unreliability of the old site's > connections. I hope that > has been resolved. > > Ian
Something AFAIK nobody's mentioned: given two things, a stable way to get the latest SXCE with a URL the only variable part being same as the snv_xx (the uname -v, I think), and a stable URL ending in latest.txt, which would simply contain the value of the latest build available, one could script downloads automatically, complete with one's login and password, and put them on a cron job. (ok, maybe a third thing, a URL similar to the first, but with the md5 of the image in it, so one could script the validation of the image) Then one could on a biweekly basis, check if a new version is available; if it is, download it, verify it, and given enough disk space, use Live Upgrade to set up an alternate BE such that one could then just reboot at leisure when it all finished, to try the new build. If it worked, great; if not, then just go back to booting off the previous build. For anyone who had the space and bandwidth, that would make frequent updates relatively convenient once they had all that set up. More people updating more frequently would in turn mean higher value to feedback, testing, bug reports, etc. So there might be some benefit to Sun as well in enabling this to be done. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
