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eddieparker
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 Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:36 am Post subject: [solved-sorta] Automagic wget for sourceforge? |
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Hey!
This is kind of an "out there" question, but I've asked such things before and the community has come back with some interesting answers... so I thought I'd give it a try. 
Anyone know of a utility that I can use from the command line to download files from sourceforge? I traditionally go to the website (from my WinXP computer) and navigate to the mirror, find the direct download link, cuss and hyperventilate at the auto-download that's starting, and then copy paste that to wget on my server.
I was hoping there'd be something easier, like "wget --sourceforge-style http://someproject.sourceforge.net/downloads/downloadfile.tgz", and it either auto-picks the closest mirror, or I specify it somewhere.
Anyone heard of something like this, or am I just dreaming?
Thanks!
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PaulBredbury
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Arch Linux uses in tons of packages:
| Code: | | source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2) |
Which equates to:
| Code: | | wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 |
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marschw
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Nick C
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if you know any python you could nose around the portage code that handles this as if you look in any ebuild that uses a sf host they have a special way of handling it, which appears similar to what you want i think, perhaps you could borrow/base a program on that to do what you need?
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eddieparker
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Hrmm, allowing that works universally, scripting that shouldn't be too bad. I'll give that a try soon.
Hrmm, interesting. I forgot I can get it from the mainpage. Seeing as how I have to see what downloads there are, that might be the 'easiest' I can make it.
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if you know any python you could nose around the portage code that handles this as if you look in any ebuild that uses a sf host they have a special way of handling it, which appears similar to what you want i think, perhaps you could borrow/base a program on that to do what you need?
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That's essentially what I was after, but after thinking about marschw's post, I realize there's no easy way to divine what version number I want - and determining it would . I suppose if I could do something like "sfwget.sh [package name]" and have it auto-determine the latest version number, I might revisit this script. We'll see. Any ideas on how to do so would be appreciated. |
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