Re: Some proposed changes to grab-0.2.29

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Greg Kurtzer wrote:

> 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...
>

Great ....


> > 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??
>

Excecelent

> > 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
>
>
Thanks a lot Greg

By the way, 0.2.29 rocks....


Agustin