On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 03:43:43AM -0700, Hamish wrote: > Hamish wrote: > > > ps- these days since disk space is cheap, I wonder if we can > > > finally ship a gmt-coast-high package instead of needing to > > > run the bundled script to get that. > > Francesco: > > I would ask ftp-masters about that. > > It would seem the /usr/sbin/gmt-coastline-download may > no longer work if you choose the main ftp site: > ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/ > > as it only has the latest 45mb version available as a single > file. > > > The sites marked in the script with a "*" do have the old > versions, e.g.: > ftp://ftp.scc.u-tokai.ac.jp/pub/gmt/ > > [the 2.1 version of the gshhs data was 30mb for full-res and 9.5mb > for high-res .bzip2 dataset. compare to the huge fgfs-base > package] > > > if we wish to preserve the old versions maybe we should put a > copy on Alioth(MkII) instead of relying on a 3rd party site > which may go away at any time? (the .au ftp site doesn't work > for me right now at all) > > > Ultimately I'd like the zyGrib, opencpn, etc packages which also > provide coastline copies to all depend on a single data package. > (to this end I've already patched opencpn to use xtide's package) >
Eh it would be definitively better depending on a arch-indep data package and trying to convince ftpmasters in supporting it. I already had problems with unstable mirrors. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list Pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel