Re: [bug-gsrc] No access to source files (firewalled)

[carl]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:15:18PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
>     download all relevant sources
> 
> One of the original conceptions for gsrc was to have one huge tarball
> with all current sources that could be downloaded.  Perhaps that idea
> could be revived now that there's been a request for it :).  Brandon, wdyt?
> 
> k

If one is connected to internet to be able to download a two gig tarball,
he or she could just as well run this script:


#!/bin/bash
set -x
# simple script to download (ONLY) all package files available through gsrc,
# up to date to this very minute,
# skipping redownloading packages one already has.
#
#
# first , install gsrc.
# then cd to the gsrc directory
# then run this script you are currently reading.
#
# directories with stuff to download:   deps gnome gnu gnustep alpha


ls -1 deps    |xargs -I NAME echo make -C    deps/NAME fetch |bash
ls -1 gnome   |xargs -I NAME echo make -C   gnome/NAME fetch |bash
ls -1 gnu     |xargs -I NAME echo make -C     gnu/NAME fetch |bash
ls -1 gnustep |xargs -I NAME echo make -C gnustep/NAME fetch |bash
ls -1 alpha   |xargs -I NAME echo make -C   alpha/NAME fetch |bash


# This script is in the public domain. It is too simple to copyright.

There's a lot of good reasons why this is preferable to bothering to
generating a giant tarball, but it would be too boring to type them
out when you can probably think of them yourself.