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Re: pkg netlist


From: David Bateman
Subject: Re: pkg netlist
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:56:07 +0100
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Bob Weigel wrote:
>> I had an issue with the idea of the pkgget command. Sourceforge requests
>> that all downloads go through a specific interface rather than directly
>> to one of the mirrors. They request this so that file download
>> statistics are correct. So this means that yes you will be able to go to
>> one of the mirror to get a package like
>>
>> http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/octave/signal-1.0.0.tar.gz
>>
>> but Sourceforge doesn't like you to do it. Until recently you couldn't
>> wget the package download page to get the package, but it appears they
>> have fixed this issue and so running wget on
>>
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/signal-1.0.0.tar.gz?download
>>
>>     
>
> >From the command line
> curl -L 
> "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-forge-2006.07.09.tar.gz?download";
>  
>
> works.  If -L is dropped it does not work. (-L essentially enables "following 
> of redirects"). As you mentioned wget works using the sourceforge-preferred 
> URL
>
> wget 
> "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-forge-2006.07.09.tar.gz?download";
>  
>
> I don't have urlwrite.oct compiled on my machine, but I am assuming that you 
> tried it on yours and it failed.  However, based on the fact that Octave uses 
> the curl library, I think it is a matter of finding the switch in the source 
> code to tell curl to follow redirects.
>
> Bob
>   
What is the consensus on whether this code should be included in the pkg
command? It probably makes no sense to do it at the moment as the
octave-forge website is in place. So I'd propose that this should be
done after the octave-forge website goes live so that we don't have to
remodify the code later..

D.


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