[indiana-discuss] Distro query

[Stephen Hahn]

* Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> [2007-12-14 02:59]:
> On 12/13/07, Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote:
> > * Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> [2007-12-13 13:40]:
> > > *There is no way currently to mirror the data from pkg.opensolaris.org
> > > currently. I am told work is underway to allow this and I'm waiting
> > > for this too.
> >
> >   The image packaging "protocol" is a series of GET and POST operations
> >   over HTTP.  Writing a mirroring program should be a relatively simple
> >   exercise in either shell or Python, depending on which API you wish to
> >   use.  Using the Python APIs will help the image packaging effort have
> >   interfaces of higher utility.
> >
> >   That is, the data is already available to mirror.
> 
> Can you point me to the source that actually parses the catalog and
> creates the link used by GET. If I can generate the link, I'll go
> ahead and write the script up.

  Use

  http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/src/modules/catalog.py

  to parse a catalog, etc.  Then use,

  http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/src/modules/manifest.py

  to understand a manifest.  Finally, use

  http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/src/modules/client/filelist.py

  to retrieve files in groups or

  http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/pkg/gate/src/modules/client/retrieve.py

  to retrieve them singly.

  If you'd rather talk about how to do it with a Bourne-style shell and
  wget, come over to pkg-discuss and we'll work through it.  Might be
  best in any case, if you find a poorly designed part of the Python
  API.

  - Stephen

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