Re: [Mingw-users] how does one mass-download MinGW packages?

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

sg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A while back on Sep 19, 2009 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>   [...]
>   >
>   > Create a text file with the files you need listed in it, one
>   > file per line, like this: 
>   > 
>   > binutils-2.19.1-mingw32-bin.tar.gz 
>   > mingwrt-3.16-mingw32-dev.tar.gz 
>   > mingwrt-3.16-mingw32-dll.tar.gz 
>   > msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz 
>   > w32api-3.13-mingw32-dev.tar.gz 
>   > 
>   > and save that file as (say) mingw-files.txt 
>   > 
>   > Then just run (as a single DOS command, all on one line): 
>   > 

In doing this
>   >  for /F %F in (mingw-files.txt) do "%ProgramFiles%\GnuWin32\bin\wget" 
>   >  -c  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/%F
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/%F
>   > 

or

>   >   wget -q -O- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ |grep tar 
>   >     |grep href |sed -e 's/^.*href="//' -e 's%/download"$%%' -e 
>   >     's%^.*/%%' |grep tar |sort |uniq |egrep -v "(src|doc|lic|man)\.tar" 
>   >

you need to keep up with the changes to the structure of the links and
packages.

> 
>   I have found the above two commands (wget followed by
>   "dos-for") very useful.  However, today the wget command finds
>   just one match, viz., 
>   
>     x86-mingw32-build-1.0-sh.tar.bz2:  released on 2009-03-16 12:41:00 UTC"
> 
>   Please recreate the wget command.
> 

Uh, it is up to you to make the modifications to your scripts based on
the new order of file links.  I suggest instead though that you use
mingw-get so that you can get the updates as needed automagically and
better controlled with changes to the file structures.

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Earnie
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