[csw-users] pkg-get help

[Mark McCoy]

On 11/14/06, Matthew Hannigan <mlh at zip.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:00:19AM +0100, Ihsan Dogan wrote:
> > Hello Matthew,
> >
> > Am 14.11.2006 2:34 Uhr, Matthew Hannigan schrieb:
> >
> > >> they howto page is fine. what i think we should to is setup an ftp
> > >> server so that users can easily get wget-sparc.bin and wget-i386.bin. we
> > >> forget that a generic solaris installation doesn't really have a decient
> > >> tool set for downloading files other then ftp. while netscape MIGHT be
> > >
> > > Yes, then you could provide a shell script that would
> > > setup ftp to bootstrap blastwave non-interactively.
> >
> > You are free to provide us such a script. :-)
>
> Yes, fair enough :-)
>
> Here's a non-tested version:
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>         ftp -in ftp.blastwave.org <<!
>         user ftp blastwave at invalid.com
>         get pkg_get.pkg
>         !
>         yes | pkgadd -d pkg_get.pkg all
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> Matt
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How about changing the "!" for your HERE document to something that
isn't interpreted by a lot of shells these days?

   ftp -in ftp.ibiblio.org <<HERE
   user anonymous blastwave at invalid.com
   passive
   cd pub/packages/solaris/csw
   get pkg_get.pkg
   HERE
   yes | pkgadd -d pkg_get.pkg all

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