On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Matthew Talbert <ransom1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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.
wget will pull over http or ftp. It's ca-raze-ey like that! :O Where is the list of all the files that need to be pulled? --Greg > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
