Re: ncbi-tools6: How to write a watch file with version encoded in _ftp_ directory

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Eriberto  writes:

> There are three problems here.

Thanks for taking a look!

> 1. The current FTP address is
> ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/, not
> ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old.

Hm?  Either name is valid, and I'd say the variant with .nlm is
preferred:

  $ dig @ns.nih.gov ftp.ncbi.nih.gov CNAME
  ftp.ncbi.nih.gov. 86400   IN  CNAME   ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

> 2. Now, this FTP site only accepts passive mode.

That shouldn't be relevant if we're switching to http(s) anyway.

> 3. The FTP scan via uscan seems accept files only (not directory
> names). However, this site has http too.

Good point.  Better yet, it has https.

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Re: ncbi-tools6: How to write a watch file with version encoded in _ftp_ directory

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Eriberto,

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:01:56AM -0200, Eriberto wrote:
> 
> Please, try the folowing structure:
> 
> version=4
> opts="passive,uversionmangle=s|^|6.1.|" \
> http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/ (\d{8}[a-z]*)/
> 
> I hope this help.

Thanks, this was extremly helpful (after adding 
downloadurlmangle=s/$/ncbi.tar.gz/).

One remaining question:  I frequently observed that uscan gave up with something
like in this case:

...
uscan info: Requesting URL:
   http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/20160908/ncbi.tar.gz
uscan warn: In directory ., downloading
  http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/20160908/ncbi.tar.gz failed: 
500 read timeout
uscan info: Failed to download upstream package: 20160908
...

The solution in this case is always to simply use the download URL with wget.

Am I the only one who observes that uscan is way less robust in the actual
download process than wget or is this simply a bug in uscan?

Kind regards

Andreas.

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Re: ncbi-tools6: How to write a watch file with version encoded in _ftp_ directory

[Eriberto]

Hi Andreas,

2016-12-01 9:15 GMT-02:00 Andreas Tille :
>
> I just noticed that there is a new upstream version of ncbi-tools6[1].
> The current d/watch file in Git[2] locks as:
>
>
> version=3
> # Too bad uscan doesn't actually honor downloadurlmangle for FTP urls. :-/
> # [would use downloadurlmangle="s|$|/ncbi.tar.gz|]
> opts="uversionmangle=s|^|6.1.|" \
>   ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/(\d{8}[a-z]*)


There are three problems here.

1. The current FTP address is
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/, not
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old.

2. Now, this FTP site only accepts passive mode.

3. The FTP scan via uscan seems accept files only (not directory
names). However, this site has http too.

Please, try the folowing structure:

version=4
opts="passive,uversionmangle=s|^|6.1.|" \
http://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/ (\d{8}[a-z]*)/

I hope this help.

Cheers,

Eriberto


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ncbi-tools6: How to write a watch file with version encoded in _ftp_ directory

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

I just noticed that there is a new upstream version of ncbi-tools6[1].
The current d/watch file in Git[2] locks as:


version=3
# Too bad uscan doesn't actually honor downloadurlmangle for FTP urls. :-/
# [would use downloadurlmangle="s|$|/ncbi.tar.gz|]
opts="uversionmangle=s|^|6.1.|" \
  ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/(\d{8}[a-z]*)


I wonder whether watch version=4 might provide new means to
automatically detect new versions.

Kind regards

   Andreas.


[1] ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/old/
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/ncbi-tools6.git

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