Hi,
I did not yet look into the script how complex it would be to integrate this.
However, is the current:
./scripts/Download -cfg <config> -required
not enough to download all you need?
René
On Jan 7, 2016, at 13:08, scsijon <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was wondering if someone with scripting skills could do a minor (or maybe
> not) change to this script please. That is of course if Rene is willing to
> allow this to happen?
>
> Currently it just does:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> ./scripts/Download [options] [ Package(s) ]
> ./scripts/Download [options] [ Desc file(s) ]
> ./scripts/Download [options] -repository Repositories
> ./scripts/Download [options] { -all | -required }
>
> Where [options] is an alias for:
> [ -cfg <config> ] [ -nock ] [ -alt-dir <AlternativeDirectory> ]
> [ -mirror <URL> | -check ] [ -try-questionable ] [ -notimeout ]
> [ -longtimeout ] [ -curl-opt <curl-option>[:<curl-option>[:..]] ]
> [ -proxy <server>[:<port>] ] [ -proxy-auth <username>[:<password>] ]
> [ -copy ] [ -move ]
>
> On default, this script auto-detects the best T2 SDE mirror.
>
> Mirrors can also be a local directories in the form of 'file:///<dir>'.
>
> ./scripts/Download -mk-cksum Filename(s)
> ./scripts/Download [ -list | -list-unknown | -list-missing | -list-cksums ]
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> But it can't do:
>
> ./scripts/Download -cfg <config> -list-missing
>
> All I get is a complete list equating to a:
>
> ./scripts/Download -list-missing
> which gives you a list containing ALL the missing .bz2's for ALL the
> /packages individual packages and not just those you are building with!
>
>
> The reason I would like this is that a lot of the time because my connection
> is via satellite with long ping times and therefore very slow transfers I
> need to download the files I need to update or add separately using wget,
> which seems to work beautifully when curl won't for some reason, (but I don't
> expect you to change over something that works for most). I then just
> manually insert them in the correct local mirror directory, and then use
> ./scripts/Download to do the conversion to a T2 source package. That's my
> simple workaround for the problem.
>
> If I can do:
>
> ./scripts/Download -cfg <config> -list-missing -required
>
> I can pipe it into a file that makes it easy to create the wget source file
> to pull them from the T2 repository in one hit.
>
> It also lets me check if I have it elsewhere before downloading (which is
> expensive in Australia no matter which way you get it). And that will make it
> even easier than messing with the missing-files file to create what I need.
>
> with many thanks
>
> scsijon
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