Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 1997 04:05:50 -0800 (PST) | From | "Neptho T." <> | Subject | Re: Packaged Kernel |
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, W. Reilly Cooley wrote:
> > What about a small package that was nothing more than the parts necessary > for a "make config" and graphical variants, a specially-written ftp client > (which would do an automatic anon login and passwd, get files, and then > exit), and a script generated from .config to automatically download the > necessary parts using the ftp client? This could be called "make > config_ftp" or some such. It could make a log file containing the > currently installed parts, so that subsequent runs of "make config_ftp" > would only get the missing parts. Then, an intermediary "make unpack" to > unpack the collected sources.
Why not just use 'expect' with normal ftp, granted not everyone as expect installed, but that seems more viable than a "new ftp client"... or prehaps a lynx -dump >> file...?
> Wil
Nep.
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