Re: running jigdo-lite batch

[hugo vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Gregory Seidman wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 07:13:13PM -0500, hugo vanwoerkom wrote:
> } Hi world!
> } 
> } I would like to run jigdo-lite in batch mode.
> } 
> } That way I can stack 3 runs and have them done overnite.
> } 
> } Is that possible? Man and Howto not too helpful. Mailing-list is mostly 
> } spam. Could hack the script. Takes time.
>
> I used this script to create a full set of sarge ISOs. You may find it
> helpful in writing your own script.
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> URLTMPL="http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/cd/jigdo-area/i386/sarge-i386-X
> XX.jigdo"
> CDCOUNT=12
>
> yes | tr 'y' '\012' | {
>         CURCD=1
>         while test $CURCD -le $CDCOUNT
>         do
>                 URL="`echo \"$URLTMPL\" | sed s/XXX/$CURCD/`"
>                 jigdo-lite "$URL"
>                 CURCD="`expr $CURCD + 1`"
>         done
> }
>
>
> } Thanks!
> } Hugo
> --Greg

Thanks Greg! However, I think I have to use expect, although I dislike 
the author's having put the greater part of the docs in his book that he 
is selling. The reason is that things go wrong and you have to handle 
that. E.g. just now jigdo-lite could not connect to the server in the 
middle of the run and did not download 50 files and came to a grinding 
halt and asks what to do: in this case try it again.

But sometimes you have to Ctrl-c out when it proves a file is just 
nowhere, like recently with Sarge CD#6 and I forget who he was looking for.

Sometimes the server goes down like http://debian.midco.net/debian/ that 
left on me the other day.

Hugo