Re: [Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

2012-09-03 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 2, 2012, at 22:04 PM, William Harrington wrote: Or use the host used to build the final system and use this wget.pl with the LWP installed on the host: which means the host system requirements would need perl with LWP: Actually the host wouldn't need WLP, the user would need to

Re: [Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

2012-09-03 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 3, 2012, at 09:45 AM, William Harrington wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 22:04 PM, William Harrington wrote: Or use the host used to build the final system and use this wget.pl with the LWP installed on the host: which means the host system requirements would need perl with LWP:

Re: [Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

2012-09-03 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 2, 2012, at 22:04 PM, William Harrington wrote: use gnu awk: BEGIN { NetService = /inet/tcp/0/mirror.anl.gov/80 print GET /pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.xz | NetService while ((NetService | getline) 0) print $0 close(NetService) } Then run gawk -f http.gawk binaryfilename

Re: [Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

2012-09-02 Thread Bryan Baldwin
On 09/03/2012 03:04 PM, William Harrington wrote: On Sep 2, 2012, at 05:00 AM, Martin Ward wrote: On 02/09/12 03:47, William Harrington wrote: Greetings All, An issue we need to discuss. In the final system we do not have an ftp client (which can be used to ftp to a server to get curl

Re: [Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

2012-09-02 Thread William Harrington
Hello, On Sep 2, 2012, at 22:36 PM, Bryan Baldwin wrote: I've had some issues with wget in downloading packages from sites like SourceForge, who do not link directly to the file. Curl works on these, however. Right. well I've been working on a page, rather than putting a download

[Clfs-dev] Download utility for final system

2012-09-01 Thread William Harrington
Greetings All, An issue we need to discuss. In the final system we do not have an ftp client (which can be used to ftp to a server to get curl or wget or whatever other utility to download packages for cblfs). We can do two things here: get rid of iputils and install inetutils, which we