I disagree with some of your points:
1 - bandwidth would be the same or less than a cron'd prepare and would
be more "on demand" if run inline at install time. Remember though, this
would require a "check for update" type of flag (not high in bandwidth),
so if any updates were to be pulled, it w
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Steven Piercy wrote:
though, since the rest of unattended is running perl, is there a way to let
todo.pl pickup and run prepare with a "check for update, then get it" sort of
flag. So when I run unattended for the first time, it would automatically run
prepare and dl anythin
wget is an external program, it really has nothing to do with bash
except that you usually use bash to run it. Perl can also retreive
things from the web, but the LWP module bundle must be installed for
that. Either way, it's a separate thing from the core of the language
(perl/bash). It mig
on (or a cygwin installation on windows) to run
it.
If you don't have experience with /unix/linux/cygwin and are having problems, feel
free to ask more help.
Greetings,
Niels de Groot,
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Subject: Package download
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:22:12 -0700
From: "Sean Brana
Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 1:04 PM
To: Sean Branam
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Package download
Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The file prepare in the \install directory is a
> bash-script to download everything you nee
Niels de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The file prepare in the \install directory is a
> bash-script to download everything you need. You'll need a unix or
> linux workstation (or a cygwin installation on windows) to run it.
> If you don't have experience with /unix/linux/cygwin and are hav
o ask more help.
Greetings,
Niels de Groot,
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Subject: Package download
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:22:12 -0700
From: "Sean Branam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi...
After finally getting everything to work, I started looking at the
scrip
Hi,
you could use the scripts which were published in the german magazine c't.
They are available at "http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/04/13/194/";. The article
is not available online.
The skript will download all necessary updates with wget.
Regards
Stefan Kell
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Sean Branam wro
Hi Sean!
> One question I have is, has anyone thought about maybe trying to have a
> script, that will go out and download all the updates and free software
> packages you want, and place them in the specific dirs?
Are you talking about "/unattended/install/prepare" ?
Try that.
cu
Niels
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Hi...
After finally getting everything to work, I started looking at the
script for automated software install.
THIS ROCKS!
One question I have is, has anyone thought about maybe trying to have a
script, that will go out and download all the updates and free software
packages you want, and place
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