Re: Dowloading for later install... where are the files?

On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Guy wrote:

> On Monday 23 September 2002 02:52 pm, Randy Arabie wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 [email protected] wrote:
> > > Thanks Wes but at work i run windows :-( What i am looking
> > > for is an ftp or site which has the source files to
> > > download...the same listing that would be as if i ran emerge
> > > --pretend apache
> > >
> > > looks like it doesn't exits, i'll have to get them one by one
> > > :-(
> >
> > Yes, I think you will have to get them "one by one".  You can
> > get wget for Windows and write a script that will do it all. 
> > Thus, while you will have to "fetch" each from the individual
> > sites, you could launch the script and let it go.  I've done
> > this, it works well.
> 
> Could you be so kind as to post an example of such a script
> or the script you actually created? Please. :)

I wrote an MSDOS *.bat script, but it isn't handy right now.  I had one line for each file I downloaded.  The syntax was:

wget -b -nv -N -U "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)" -O "C:\path\to\destination\directory\and\filename" -a "C:\path\to\logfile"  http://www.web_address.org/some_app.i386.1-0.tar.gz 

The addresses you need to fetch the files are in the *.ebuild files.  There is a skel.ebuild file in the /usr/portage directory that has some comments that explain the ebuild file structure.

wget will work with ftp addresses too, but the command options/arguments will be a little different.  It comes with help, at the C:\> type wget --help.
  
HTH
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Randy
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