On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given
> major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to
connect to ftp
> (which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting
> hammered or something?) and doing the parsing that? Both approaches
> feel quite awkward to me.
Use wget to download via HTTP (added recently). Probably wise to add a
couple mirrors in your script.
I'm not asking how to download stuff. I'm asking how to figure out the
current release number for a given major.minor. I thought that was
clear in my original post, but I guess not. For example, how do I
determine (programmatically) the lastest version of 8.1.
I'm also interested in a clever way to select one of the "close"
mirrors at random for downloading via http. However I had planned to
hold that question until I'd solved the first issue.
Andrew
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