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Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: fallback to wget for downloading .po files via a


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: fallback to wget for downloading .po files via a proxy
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:57:20 +0200

Voelker, Bernhard wrote:
> Maybe a post-8.13 issue:
>
> Since 2c57c49cc39e8e7250495d4d7ce713ba06272a46, bootstrap
> fails downloading the .po files when behind a firewall,
> because rsync does not allow a proxy server to be set -
> well, at least my proxy server refuses to work together
> with rsync's RSYNC_PROXY environment variable.
>
> See also:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/11158
>
>
>
> Here's a patch for falling back to wget when rsync fails.
> A word to bandwidth: the --mirror option takes care about
> downloading only changed files.

Thanks for the patch.
I'll look at it right after 8.13.

> Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: fallback to wget for downloading .po files via a
>  proxy.
>
> * bootstrap (download_po_files): Fallback to wget when downloading
> the .po files via rsync failed. This is necessary to bootstrap behind
> a strict firewall.
> ---
>  bootstrap |    8 ++++++++
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
> index f76db9a..d165a2e 100755
> --- a/bootstrap
> +++ b/bootstrap
> @@ -105,6 +105,11 @@ po_download_command_format=\
>  "rsync --delete --exclude '*.s1' -Lrtvz \
>   'translationproject.org::tp/latest/%s/' '%s'"
>
> +# Fallback for downloading .po files (if rsync fails).
> +po_download_command_format2=\
> +"wget --mirror -nd -q -np -A.po -P '%s' \
> + http://translationproject.org/latest/%s/";
> +
>  extract_package_name='
>    /^AC_INIT(/{
>       /.*,.*,.*, */{
> @@ -583,6 +588,9 @@ download_po_files() {
>    domain=$2
>    echo "$me: getting translations into $subdir for $domain..."
>    cmd=`printf "$po_download_command_format" "$domain" "$subdir"`
> +  eval "$cmd" && return
> +  # Fallback to HTTP.
> +  cmd=`printf "$po_download_command_format2" "$subdir" "$domain"`
>    eval "$cmd"
>  }



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