Re: Some proposed changes to grab-0.2.29

Greg Kurtzer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.grab
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 06:18:19AM -0400, Agustin Navarro wrote:
> This are some changes that I have to make regularly to grab.
> 
> 1. Change ftp from Passive to Active.
>    I do not know why I can not use ftp passive here.
>    Maybe this could be an option in the configuration file ??

I will make this a configuration file change...

> 2. Increase limit of RPM's found from 1000 to 10000.
>    Sometimes I will get over 1000 RPM in the UPGRADE list.
>    For example going from mdk-8.1 to mdk-8.2 beta 2.

Hrmm... I have only allocated 3 chars in the counter of the chooser. Space is
limited to 80 chars... Unless you select the --expand option... Maybe I will
say if you use the expand option, it will allow more packages to be selected.

Sound good??

> 3. Include option -nd to wget to prevent creation of a directory structure.
>    Example: system ("$bin_wget -c -r -nd -P $rpm_repository $location");

Woops! Thanks for letting me know. I will add it!

Greg

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