Re: pginstaller on bittorrent ...

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, David Fetter wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:40:31PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, David Fetter wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:22:49PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, David Fetter wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Also, I think we all agreed that BitTorrent is only for the latest,
>>>>> greatest, as in (currently) 7.2.6, 7.3.8, 7.4.6 and beta4.  This is
>>>>> a "Simple Matter of Programming," from my perspective, and I
>>>>> believe I can get this done this evening. :)
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice if we could somehow bring in the RPMs/binary and
>>>> the gborg/pgfoundry sections as well ...
>>>
>>> Excellent idea.  What say we take this to -www for discussion as to
>>> how to do this?
>>
>> How to do what?  I don't think anyone on -www knows anything about
>> Bittorrent, do they?  Everything else is already done :)
>
> Coordinating this with gborg/pgfoundry involves the infrastructures of
> both.  When I do something, it ought to plug into those
> infrastructures in a fairly modular way, the alternative being
> painting myself into a corner as I've already done with the page frame
> :P

Can't you just check the gborg/pgfoundry directories on ftp for new files?
a simple 'find . -type f ! -mtime +1 -print' should provide you with a
list of all files that have changed/been added in the past 24 hrs ... and
have the script run every 24hrs?

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