Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading

2003-02-11 Thread Max Bowsher
Randall R Schulz wrote: Richard, inspired by your inquiry, I whipped up a little something. It's not well tested, but it should provide a starting point. It generates a script that uses wget to retrieve all the binary tarballs to the same place that Setup.exe would. As written, it will not

Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading

2003-02-11 Thread Randall R Schulz
Robert, It's a shell script. I simply looked at the current setup.ini stored on my system (retrieved from the mirror.mcs.anl.gov mirror) and concocted a quick script to try to give the original poster a start on what he wanted. Randall Schulz At 23:57 2003-02-10, Robert Collins wrote: On

Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading

2003-02-11 Thread Randall R Schulz
Max, At 00:19 2003-02-11, Max Bowsher wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Richard, inspired by your inquiry, I whipped up a little something. It's not well tested, but it should provide a starting point. It generates a script that uses wget to retrieve all the binary tarballs to the same place

Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading

2003-02-11 Thread Richard Deeley
Randall Schulz, Thanks for the script and related information. It seems fairly clear and confirms that setup.ini can be used to drive the whole process (nothing funny going on inside of setup). For the downloading anyway. For the installation, using setup would seem to be the only way to go. I

setup.exe joblist for downloading

2003-02-10 Thread Richard Deeley
OK somewhat related to discussion: Re: setup 2.194.2.24: Bug (?) in downloading from internet I am one of those unfortunates trying to download a LOT of stuff over a slow modem. The current setup.exe is very hard to use in the presence of network failures (which are common) [I will avoid the

Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading

2003-02-10 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:59:19PM -0800, Richard Deeley wrote: My hope here was that there might be an option to get a joblist out of setup.exe which I could then parse and send to a third party downloader (such as GetRight). Is there such an option ? No. cgf -- Unsubscribe info:

Re: setup.exe joblist for downloading

2003-02-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 18:53, Randall R Schulz wrote: Chris, Au contraire! Which version of the setup.ini syntax does it support? (And did you leverage the setup.exe parser?) Rob -- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a