> >> The (to my mind) greater issue is simply that it this system requires > >> someone else to have already downloaded the most recent version of a > >> module. > >> The ZIPs are only created by the download servlet. Assuming our hope that > >> people migrate to InstallMgrs comes true, fewer and fewer people will > >> download ZIPs from the webpage, making it progressively less likely that > >> the > >> correct ZIP exists. > > > > I don't know the details of this mechanism, but a daily cron job on the > > server itself that downloads all modules (to /dev/null, or worst case to a > > temporary directory that is then deleted) would be a simple way to handle > > this issue, and one that would generate zero network traffic (the downloads > > would be over the lo interface of the server, no physical network traffic > > over real network cables would happen). > > > > I suspect this is implementable as a one line shell script in > > /etc/cron.daily/ that runs wget ? Would you like me to come up with and > > test such a script? > > for module in $(cat /usr/share/sword/mods.d./*.conf | grep -e > '^\[.*\]$' | sed -e 's/\[(.*)\]/\1/'); do > installmgr -ri CrossWire $module; > done > > You might have to check the sed script. Not sure if that's what you > mean or if it's something more like: > > for module in $(cat /path/to/zips); do > wget -O /dev/null ftp://path/to/file/$module; > done > > But whatever. It should be pretty trivial.
I believe what is needed is to request the raw zip files, not the modules via ftp. wget would work for that, but I believe over http. Matthew _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
