Re: How big does it get...

[Chris B. Vetter]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 12:17:15 -0500
Jason Clouse <jhclouse@juno.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 08:14:48 -0800 "Chris B. Vetter"
> <chrisv@web4inc.com> writes:
> <<Frankly, I wouldn't use the ports for GNUstep, as they usually are
> quite out-dated>>
> Would it be possible to have the daily snapshot uploaded to ibiblio
> every day as gstep-cvs.tgz?  That way, ports (and portage on Gentoo,
> which is what I'm interested in) could always get the latest &
> greatest.  As far as I know, the dailies aren't mirrored anywhere. 
> And on the gnustep.org FTP site, they're named according to date.  You
> would need something that has a reliably consistent file name.  Or a
> symlink.

You could create a cron job that calls, eg.

  URL=http://ftpmain.gnustep.org/pub/daily-snapshots
  for i in core dev-apps dev-libs usr-apps
  do
    wget -c $URL/$i.`date +%Y%m%d`.tar.bz2
  done

 ;-)

-- 
Chris